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🔍 Overview of the Reading and Use of English Exam
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🎯 Strategies for Effective Preparation
💡 Tips and Tricks for Success
🤔 Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

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Okay hello everybody uh let’s quickly do a  sound check can you hear me okay everybody   feel free to leave a comment in the chat okay  if you are having any problems okay right here okay I see we have one person  attending can you hear me okay everything okay for sound can you hear  

Me fantastic okay so let’s go  back and get down to business okay so firstly uh let’s make an introduction okay I’m Richard um  and I will be talking you through this first   lesson of the pet preliminary reading and  use of English exam and I will be talking  

Through the basics of the exam showing you  the the key parts of the reading and use   of English exam um and pointing out any very  important pieces of information you need to   know so thank you for joining us uh I look  forward to helping you um and so let’s uh  

Begin with a little introduction about me  okay and uh have a listen to some of the   language I use as well this could be useful  for you guys too so I will share my screen okay a quick message before  we begin happy New Year all  

The best to everybody so now uh my my introduction okay so firstly uh a little about me um I love  sport um I really enjoy surfing as you can   see from the picture there uh I’m interested in  languages and culture um I’m really into learning  

Languages but I enjoy teaching them too uh I’m  a language student I’ve studied Spanish French   German Portuguese that doesn’t mean that I’m  fantastic at them but I understand what it’s   like to be a student so I’ve been in your position  um but also I’m a teacher as well um and I have a  

Background in teaching Cambridge exams okay in  fact I studied languages at University um and   then uh I majored in education later uh as I said  I’m experienced at teaching Cambridge um Cambridge   material um I also a pet preliminary examiner uh  amongst other uh other types of exams um what I  

Am best at is teaching exam preparation okay  I actually enjoy it some people think that’s a   bit crazy but I love teaching exam preparation so  hopefully I can help you now before we look at the  

Exam a quick little uh reflection okay you will  see that I have used a range of language here to   talk about my interests these are some nice little  phrases um you know I am interested in okay I’ve  

Used the ing form afterwards because we have a  preposition I’m mad about I’m into okay um and   then when I was talking about my background some  nice phrases here if you’re talking about what   you’ve done at in your education uh and then  again some nice phrases with prepositions I’m  

Experienced at I’m good at I have a background  in so these are some nice little uh Expressions   you can use in your speaking okay but that’s uh  enough about the speaking okay I’m here to help  

You with the reading and the use of English uh so  um let’s begin okay um now let’s start with the   basics what you see when you begin the exam all  right you you will see okay the reading test we  

Look at the time here you’ve got 45 minutes okay  now let’s let’s quickly look at the instructions   all right um this is not completely useless  information um there are useful points here okay   um so read the instruction carefully okay this  is obvious try to answer all the questions you  

Do not lose marks uh if you give a bad answer you  just don’t get a mark so answer all the questions   even if you don’t know what the answer is have a  guess okay that’s important um try to answer all  

The questions okay if you are wrong oops let’s get  rid of that one okay we’ll get rid of that one if   you’re wrong no problem okay you’re not going  to get a minus Mark okay that happens in some  

Countries uh and some systems some exam systems  now write your answers on the answer sheet use   a pencil okay you must complete the answer sheet  within the time limit now um this is important and  

Most people say simple um we can have a look at  the answer sheet here this is the answer sheet um   and you need to make sure that you’ve completed  your answers on the answer sheet so you can see  

Here I’ve got an imaginary pencil and I’m shading  in the answer for part one I think part one is one   okay excuse me so you need to shade them in now  my recommendation okay to save stress and nobody  

Likes stress in an exam uh is try to do this while  you’re doing the exam okay let’s let’s have a look   at part one for example okay we’ve got part one  here we’ve got question one okay there are five  

Questions in part one it says for each question  choose the correct answer now let’s imagine that   I’ve read it you know as I said I think it’s  part one I’m going to mark it on the sheet here  

Okay but at the same time okay okay I’m going to  use my pencil okay and Mark it here yeah then at   the end I’m not stressed I’m not thinking oh  I have to mark everything uh at the end do I  

Have time okay that’s not a good situation to be  in okay so this may be common sense okay but uh   some people have forgotten yeah and I have seen  it and it’s not nice okay so uh I did forget to  

Mention the beginning of the exam where you have  to enter your details okay your name uh you will   be given a center name Don’t Panic about that  uh your signature make sure you have all of this  

Stuff completed okay otherwise this can delay the  marking of your exam okay so that’s uh simple but   again important now um let’s look at the parts  of the exam so I will I will show you I will  

Show you the entire exam I’ve got a sample  here okay um I can’t draw on this let’s see   now we’ve seen this part now this this is part  one okay as I said there are five questions um  

You’ve got like an image with text and you have  to choose the correct answer from three options   a b or c yeah all right five different examples  yeah that’s part one so let’s look at one of the  

Questions in a little more detail so let me  share that again go back to my white there we go now here I what part one now I’m going to  rub this out because we do not know yet if a  

Is the right answer that was just for showing  you okay what to do so let’s start from the   beginning okay so let me get my highlighter let’s  change color let’s go for blue okay right uh for  

Each question choose the correct answer now okay  okay I’ve got some tips here um look carefully at   the language look for similarities in meaning  and ideas okay synonyms it’s another word for   similarities Words which are the same beware of  negatives and distractors okay we can talk we’ll  

Talk in more detail about this uh this part  of the exam when I go into detail about part   one uh of the exam so uh if you like this session  subscribe okay and then you can follow me when I  

Get into into the real detail for part one today  we’re going to look at the basics and I’ll give   you a a very useful tip at the end so stay stay  on the channel okay at the end and you’ll get  

That tip that will help you uh do the exam with  less stress and in a more let’s say methodical   or strategic way okay so let’s get back back to  the question um as I said look very carefully at  

The language all right so we’ve got this negative  no groups of four or more okay unless by previous   Arrangements all right so let’s have a look at uh  a b and c okay all campus must reserve a place in  

Advance okay okay so uh we’ve got the sense that  we’ve got our in advance is similar to a previous   Arrangement Okay so we’ve got a similar idea  here yeah let’s uh let’s check the others and   see if there are any things that we can that  we can eliminate them maybe or discount them  

Okay uh so let’s have a look go back to Yellow  groups bigger than four are not allowed on the   site okay well we’ve got this idea of four okay um  but it says no groups of four or more are allowed  

Unless by previous arrangements so that’s not  really right okay they can come but there must   be previous Arrangements right uh now let’s have  a look at the next one groups of more than three   should contact the campsite before arriving okay  now we’ve got this idea of more than three which  

Is the same yeah as four all right uh they should  contact the camsite before arriving right okay uh   so we’ve got we’ve got both ideas included here  whereas for a we’ve only got one idea all campers  

Now here it says only groups of four so let’s  eliminate a okay and we have got c as our answer   okay look carefully at the language similarities  in meaning and ideas beware of negatives eliminate   anything that you think is not correct okay so  that’s part one all right let’s move on part two  

Um now ah we’ve done part one we’ve decided it’s C  so at the same time okay we are going to shade in   Sea okay to make our life easier and avoid stress  okay so let’s do that while we’re doing the exam  

Okay yeah now we can move on yes I nearly forgot  myself right part two so again I will look at um   the PDF so that you can see the entire uh part  of the exam so let’s move across now I scroll  

Down okay so uh part two okay for each question  choose the correct answer okay you have context   here which is very important so take time take  your time to read this the young people below   all want to do a cycling course during their  school holidays on the opposite page there are  

Descriptions of eight cycling courses so these  are the young people below okay we’ve got uh   five young people and then on the opposite page  we’ve got eight different descriptions all right   so we have to choose five out of the eight um so  as it said decide which course would be the most  

Suitable for the people below okay so that’s the  question now let’s let’s have a quick look at how   to answer this question shall we um so again  I will unshare and share my lesson here okay  

My presentation I mean move across okay so we’re  going to look at the first one okay we’re going to   look at question six we’ got Nancy okay so um you  again you need to look care at the language look  

For connections and similarities this is something  that you’re going to be doing for every question   okay in the reading you’re looking for connections  similarities look for synonyms and be careful of   negatives uh and distractors which I will go into  more detail about uh as I said in our next session  

About part one of the pet preliminary exam so um  I am going to just show you the answer to this one   and you can see the connections I’ve made so let’s  have a look okay uh six goes with d all right and  

Let’s have a look why okay now Nancy she’s 14  she Cycles quite well all right in fact we’ve   got two ideas there so maybe I can uh I’m going to  color code these okay color coding is is good for  

An exam nerds like me okay so she Cycles quite  well um she needs to learn how to cycle safely   uh on busy City roads from home to school I think  that’s one idea more or less yeah okay and uh the  

Last idea she’s free at the weekends okay you  can have a look for a minute um and see why I   have made the connection what are the ideas that  connect okay you’re welcome to write in the chat  

If you want to um or not up to you I will go  over it in in a minute okay so I’ll give you   a quick minute to read the pedal power okay and  see how the connections are what what are the  

What is the language that connects and makes sure  that this is the correct answer okay just take a look all right maybe you have some IDE so let’s  uh let’s take a look together uh a course   for able cyclists all right able kind of  works with quite well yeah so we got that  

Idea we tick that off okay um we specialize  in teaching Riders of all ages right so that   works with the fact that she’s 14 all ages can  participate uh now um how to manage difficult   situations in heavy traffic towns and cities  okay that works with that idea the busy roads  

Uh home to school and uh she’s only free at  weekends the final idea there Saturdays 2 to   4 yeah so we’ve got all our ideas there  there’s nothing um that does not agree   there’s nothing that does not uh that don’t  go together so I’m we’re 100% sure 100% sure  

That that’s the correct answer okay and  I’ve drawn all over my um my exam sheet yeah okay part three of our pet elimin preliminary  exam sorry we’re not eliminating okay it’s a   preliminary exam uh okay again I’m going to  do what I’ve been doing I’ll go to the I’ll  

Show you the PDF so an unshare and share of the  PDF we can see the entire part three so we move on okay to part three uh so you’ve got 11 to 15  questions 11 to 15 for each question choose the  

Correct answer you’ve got a reading text here  okay one page and then you’ve got your uh five   question questions A B C or D all right yeah uh  okay so let’s let’s go back unshare and share okay okay what’s nice about  this and not confusing is  

That the answers come in order let’s  put that there okay that’s useful to know well if we want a fancy word they come chronologically okay make that a bit bigger okay uh that means  that um the answer to question question 11 is  

Going to be in the beginning all right uh now  again to repeat myself but the strategies are   similar for every question look carefully at  the language in the questions um and then read   the text and look for similarities in meanings  and ideas I would say read the questions first  

I like to do that okay um and then read the text  okay questions first text second some people like   to read the text quickly first that’s fine um for  me I like to read the questions then I know what I  

Am looking for but that’s that’s my personal  preference so um let’s Zoom this a bit okay   because it’s a bit small so now um as I said uh  we want to look at the language so Harry thinks  

Uh he said he was going to be a tennis champion  in order to okay pleas his parents that’s a bit   thick isn’t it let let me um maybe I’ll use a  thinner pen here let’s see that’s better yeah   pleas his parents okay uh change color get  some attention Okay annoy his older brother  

Okay uh and the last one uh what color am I  missing yellow yeah persuade people that he   was serious right I’ll scroll up we are looking  here for synonyms in the text which match in other  

Words similarities in meaning and ideas yeah so  I’ll read this for you see if you can spot them   as I read okay and then we’ll go over it right  our title play to win 16-year-old Harry Moore   writes about his hobby tennis my parents have  always loved tennis and they’re members of a  

Tennis club my older brother was really good at  it and they supported him taking him to lessons   all the time so I guess when I announced that I  wanted to be a tennis champion okay our answer is

Coming when I grew up I just intended for them  to notice me all right my mother laughed she   knew I couldn’t possibly be serious okay be  careful of that we have the same word but   we’ve got a negative okay beware of negatives  and distractors just because they use the same  

Word it does not mean it’s the same thing  she knew that I couldn’t be serious okay in   fact that makes D impossible yeah however we do  have this sense I just intend intended for them  

To notice me all right that is another way to say  uh in fact let me change the color to not confuse   the issue okay we don’t want green as such and  we don’t want yeah let’s let’s change again so  

To notice me so that is another way to say to  get some attention yeah okay notice be noticed   uh if people notice you they pay you attention  all right and uh I should add that this idea  

Serious yeah so let’s let’s zoom out let’s go  to fit here okay so in this case we’ve got two   words which are similar okay we can make that  match yeah we’ll put that on a little Post-It   note okay uh be noticed sorry it’s right  it here be noticed be paid attention to

Okay there we go right let’s move on okay uh let’s take a look  at part four and again I will ah at this point I   should just remind you again I’m going to repeat  myself I apologize but we must remember as we’re  

Doing this to Mark our answers in while we’re  doing the exam again to save that stress uh at the   ends yeah okay so what did I say I think I said  part three let’s let’s go back and have a look

Okay part three and we said it was uh get some  attention it was B wasn’t it okay so we’ll shade   that in okay part three B okay and we also should  have done part two which was D wasn’t it yeah okay  

So we’ll do that yeah 6D all right that’s the last  time I’m I’m going to mention that I promise yeah   okay just to give you a little reminder okay  repetition is good um where were we so we were  

Going to look at part four where we yeah all right  so but unshare and share yeah we’ll go PDF okay   we’ll scroll down okay so part four questions  16 to 20 you’ve got uh five sentences have   been removed in other words taken away from the  text below for each question choose the correct  

Answer there are three extra sentences which  you do not need to use uh so this is a reading   uh and you can see you’ve got a gap here where a  sentence should go in these are the sentences you  

Get on the next page and of course you’ve got to  choose five from the eights okay so let’s let’s go back uh we’ll go back to my my Bo now for me  this one is one of the trickier parts of the  

Exam one of the more difficult parts of  the exam um so this will take me a good   45 minutes to really go into detail with it  which we will be looking at in the subsequent   lessons I’ll give you um some ideas about how  to approach it but uh we’ll really go into  

Detail with this in the lat later lessons  um but let let’s take a quick look yeah um so I’m going to zoom make it a bit bigger here  I would say for this um for this part it’s really  

Worth reading uh the text first and then looking  at the questions okay and you’re looking for   connections all right uh you’re looking four  ideas which connect before and after the Gap   all right uh did I say that I think I did yeah  it’s here yeah let’s bring it down here right  

So I’ll give you an example now we’ve read all  of it it’s about planting trees Mark Ram okay   uh now let’s have a look at some things which  might connect okay uh we started looking online  

For the best trees to buy all right we’ve got uh  we’ve got a bit of vocab here we we’re talking   about trees okay we’re talking about looking  online all right let let’s use something a bit   smaller here actually okay yeah change your  pen up a bit why not yeah all right looking

On what am I talking about right hold on that  should be a bit smaller looking online yeah   trees okay now we can look afterwards okay uh  if we wanted them to grow properly they had   to be the right type all right we got them as  well which is referring to something plural all

Right so in our sentence we have to have  something plural here okay we and we talked   about trees we’ve talked about buying online  Okay so let’s let’s maybe zoom out a little  

Bit okay we make it that’s a bit small isn’t it  so let’s see okay um so if we look you know a b   CDE e f we’ve got the eight Alternatives okay um  now I I’ve chosen D for this one okay um we’re  

Talking about choosing trees okay looking  online that’s the idea they’re looking um   it was quite complicated okay so they have to  be the right one we’ve got that idea we’ve got   two ideas which connect together and of course  we’ve got them which refers to trees as well  

All right so there are many different ways uh  for to to make that connection okay and we’ll   spend a considerable amount of time looking  at the various different ways um that we can   make that connection and make sure we’ve got the  right sentence to go in the Gap but that’s how  

You do that part of the exam okay and again  you can see I’ve drawn all over my text um   and we need to mark it on our exam paper okay  if we’re sure good so uh let’s move on shall

We okay where is my part five my part five is  gone all right so I need to look at the exam   paper but that’s fine so we’ll look at part  five I don’t have it on my screen so I’ll  

Draw it up on the PDF that’s no problem um bear  with me a moment so let’s pull it up on the F okay now there we go there we go  part five yeah you I’m going to   make a screenshot I think and then I can put it on

The just bear with me a moment people please okay   I’m going to make my life  a bit easier okay so that’s so part five okay uh there are five  questions okay the same um and in this   case for each question you need to choose  the correct answer okay so you’ve got you  

Got a text you’ve got gaps okay and we look at  the questions you got a B C or D okay so let’s   let’s have a look okay I think I can now  put it on my presentation we can draw all of okay there we go right

Now there we go let’s put it in there like that [Music] okay oh just bear with  me one moment guys okay so I want here okay one moment guys I’ll  call up the the image in a moment two now let’s get that in here there  we go perfect okay thank you for your  

Patience now let’s look how we can do this  part of the exam okay so we we’re looking   for something to go in here okay again um  it’s a case of looking at the before and after

Okay not this not 22 I want 21 don’t I we’ll do  21 first okay so right so we’ve got a project   okay uh it’s something to show how car marking  could bloody bloody blur okay um now you’ve got intended wished decided or insisted  okay it’s important to think about uh  

Context and grammar here all right  these are the two key things uh context and r okay two key things to think about now let’s save that I want to move that there okay context so what do I mean firstly by context we’re  talking about a project okay it’s not a person  

It’s a project okay uh it’s about car making um  and we’ve and so that gives us our cont text then   we’ve got uh we got the use of two here as well  which which is related to grammar really yeah okay  

We’re using two here all right so um let’s have a  look at our words we’ve got intended to show how   car making could such and such okay decided Well  a project isn’t decided to do something so that  

That wouldn’t really be correct okay insisted now  insisted goes with on he insisted on working hard   so we can eliminate that all right um we got that  grammar there on okay wrong preposition we can use  

Intended to okay we can say wish to but that’s  when you use a person and it’s active I wish   to leave now okay um he wished to make money all  right but a project is not wished to do something  

All right so that would also be incorrect all  right so we can eliminate that yeah um so you’re   looking for a a link with context and grammar for  this part all right so that’s part five uh thank  

You for your patience there and you would remember  again to go back to the exam and Mark mark it oh   sorry back to the answer sheet and Mark it with  your pencil uh so let’s come to uh let’s yeah part  

Six I’ve got it there okay uh so again we’ll have  a quick look at the PDF uh so I’ll move across uh and we can scroll down all right to  part six um so five questions again all   right for each question write the  correct answer write one word for  

Each Gap one word no more all right uh  now you’ve got a text and you got gaps   and you’ve got to write the word it can be  any word yeah uh so let’s let’s go back and

We’ll share here and I will share my present ation  all right so okay last one last part of the exam   uh it can be quite tricky now here is something  to remember um the correct word is a grammar word  

In fact make this point clearly a grammar word  right what do I mean by a grammar word every time   you are in class and your teacher is teaching  you a grammar Point um maybe you’re doing the   future you’re doing conditionals uh comparatives  and you’re using words conditionals we use if to  

Make a conditional if is a grammar word okay  superlatives we use most or least the most   fantastic the least interesting most and least are  grammar words the is a grammar word okay um future   we use will for the future for predictions will is  a grammar word okay it’s it makes up a grammatical  

Structure that has its own meaning all right now  Richard is not a grammar word my name that’s a   name all right surfing is not a grammar word all  right it’s the name of an activity so it’s a word  

That is used to make up a grammatical structure  that’s important to remember all right um so my   point made okay let’s uh hopefully my point is  made so let’s let’s go back quickly and we’ll  

Do one example answer uh right so I would say for  this one read read the entire text okay the usual   look carefully at the language before and after  I’m repeating myself again but this is important   um and look for connections related to context  vocab and grammar okay so we’ll do the first one

Uh our new skate pop is there a Great  Skate Park in your town we’ve now got   the Fantastic skate park ever okay well um if  if you know your grammar okay we tend to use   the plus ever um with a superlative okay  fact it’s the plus superlative plus ever

Okay all right now we’ve got our adjective here  fantastic all right um it’s all because of my   friends and me we’ve got the word great so it’s  going to be positive all right so our superlatives  

The most fantastic not the least because it’s a  great skat Park all right so we thought about our   grammar we’ve got our one grammar word which is  the most all right so I’ll put that in there we go

Okay uh I see a message from Louis 21 I’m not  sure what you mean by 21 is that the question   uh yes it’s the question of the answer sorry  I missed that I need to pay more attention to  

The to the chat now um that brings us close to  the end of the entire exam okay to summarize   for this pet preliminary exam reading use of  English um come prepared bring your pencil   bring your rubber okay to do the to write in  the answers um write the answers as you go in  

The exam follow the strategies we’ll talk in  more detail about those later on okay if you   subscribe to the channel okay then we can get  into detail with the later sessions now I said  

At the beginning that I would give you a tip maybe  you figured it out maybe you haven’t the tip was   not just shading in the exam but if we look at um  an example one of my example answers all right uh  

You can see it’s a bit of a mess I’ve drawn all  over it okay I’ve labeled things I’ve underlined   things I’ve made my own little notes okay uh  and that for me and for many students I’ve  

Worked with helps them establish the correct  answer and be 100% sure so my tip is this is   to draw sorry I go back my tip is to draw all  over the exam paper okay to help you establish  

The correct answer yeah let’s put that on a little  Post-It note that’s my tip of the day it may be   obvious to some people but it may not and it  is very helpful so uh draw all over the exam

Paper help you logically establish what the  answer is okay that is my little tip of the   day okay um so that brings us quite nicely  okay to the end of the session we’ll jump   that okay I say thank you everybody it’s  been a pleasure helping you hopefully uh  

I look forward to seeing you next week in  the next session remember subscribe to the   channel okay um and you can keep uh getting  these hopefully useful sessions so see you   soon guys uh I will just see yeah see you soon  guys okay um in the next session all the best byebye