ICFE Reading – Part 3
Task Description
What do candidates have to do?
Read two short texts and complete six gaps in each one with a word formed from a given base word. The first text includes an example.
What texts are used?
Mainly extracts from reference books and financial textbooks, financial newspapers and journals, financial websites, company annual reports, research reports, correspondence and other documents
What is being tested?
Word formation
What specific areas of language are relevant?
Affixation and compounding
How many marks are awarded?
12
Understanding the Task
It may help you to work through a sample Part 3 task yourself. Use this task from the sample paper. As you complete it, think about the affixes tested.
Sample Part 3 task (PDF)
Answers
Things to consider
- Which question is testing a prefix?
- How many different parts of speech are tested across the six questions?
- What spelling considerations arise from Questions 31, 32 and 35?
- How many different suffixes are tested across the six questions?