五级FCE考试题型及答题技巧

Part 1

In this part you are given a short text. This text has fifteen missing words. For each gap, you must choose the word which best fits the gap from the four options given. The main focus of this task is vocabulary. However, in some cases knowing the meaning will not be sufficient; you will also need to choose the word that fits in with the grammar of the sentence.

Part 2

Part 2 is a text containing fifteen gaps. A single word is needed to fill each gap. This part focuses on grammar and vocabulary and tests your knowledge of, for example, verb tenses, infinitives, -ing forms, pronouns and prepositions. There may be more than one correct word for a gap, but you only need to give one word. It does not matter if you do not use capital letters (or if you use them incorrectly) but you must spell the words correctly.

Learning words and expressions will help you in this part of the paper.

Part 3

Part 3 contains ten key word transformations. For each question you are given a prompt sentence, followed by a response sentence which has a gap. You must fill this gap with between two and five words. One of these words must be the key word which is given to you. This word must not be changed. Areas being tested in Part 3 include reported speech, passives and verb tenses. This part tests your knowledge of the language, but practice of transformations also helps you to develop the skill of expressing your ideas in a different way.

Part 4

In Part 4 you must decide if the fifteen lines of a text contain a wrong word or not. Most lines contain errors and they are the sort of errors that learners at your level are likely to make in writing, such as incorrect auxiliary verbs, prepositions, pronouns and articles. The text looks like something that a student at FCE level might write.

You can help to prepare yourself for this part by correcting your own (or your classmates’) written work. This will help you to improve your accuracy when writing.

Part 5

Part 5 is a word-building task, based on a text with ten gaps. A single word is needed to fill each gap. The stems of the missing words are given next to the text and must be transformed to provide the missing word. You will need to show that you know the various ways in which words can be formed in English, including the addition of affixes (e.g. friendship), compounding (e.g. timetable) and internal change (e.g. long > length).