ILEC 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 law textbooks, legal websites, contracts, 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 and compounding tested.
Sample Part 3 task (PDF)
Answers
Things to consider
- Which question is testing a compound?
- How many different parts of speech are tested?
- What spelling considerations arise from the example and Question 26?
- Why does the answer to Question 26 have to be a plural form?
- How many different affixes are tested?