INGLESE B1
Preparazione all’esame PET
della dott.ssa Chiara Cordola
Modulo 1
Reading Paper
Lezione 3
Part 3
Reading Paper – Part 3
• It is a four-option multiple choice test.
•.First skim the text quickly to understand what the text is about, then read the
questions.
• Read for and underline details.
• Questions 11, 12 ,13 and 14 follow the order of information in the text.
• Question 15 focuses on global meaning.
• For each question you get one mark.
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Focus on understanding adjectives
EXERCISE 1
In Part 3 you may need to understand what the writer thinks or feel. Write the
adjectives in the correct column.
surprised angry disappointed afraid nervous
satisfied worried excited embarassed tired
guilty jealous bored confident cheerful
Negative feelings Positive feelings
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Focus on understanding adjectives
EXERCISE 2
Use adjectives from exercise 1 to describe how each speaker below feels.
Example: I thought I was late for the bus, so I didn’t expect to see it
still at the bus stop. surprised
1. I can’t wait until it’s time for my birthday party! ………….
2. I thought our team would win the beach
football match – but we lost, sadly. ………….
3. When I was in a crowded shop yesterday a
boy stood on my foot – and didn’t apologise! ………….
4. I saw my new friend in town yesterday – but
I completely forgot her name. ………….
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Focus on understanding adjectives
5. I’ve had sports all day at school today – ………...
so I’m going to bed as soon as I get home.
6. This film isn’t very interesting – I keep …………
thinking of something else.
7. I’ve trained really hard for the race tomorrow - …………
I know I’ll do OK!
8. Oh dear! I am sure I put my wallet in my bag – …………
and now it’s not there.
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Speaking – Describing pictures and feelings
EXERCISE 3
How often does your family get together for a celebration? Do you enjoy family parties?
Why? Why not?
Look at the picture and find someone who
is fair-haired has curly hair
is wearing a skirt is on their back
is middle-aged looks cheerful
is holding a teddy bear
Now describe the image beginning like this:
This is an image of a party. There are people of all ages here. Some of them are
drinking, but…
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Practice Test
Artist Paul Wellingson talks about his hobby
There’s a popular idea that artists are not supposed to be into sport, but
mountain biking is a huge part of my life. It gets me out of my studio and into the
countryside. But more importantly, racing along as fast as you can leaves you no
time to worry about anything that’s going on in your life. You are too busy
concentrating on not crashing. The only things you pay attention to are the pain in
your legs and the rocks on the paths in front of you.
I’m in my sixties now, but I started cycling when I was a kid. In the summer my
friends and I would ride our bikes into the woods and see who was brave enough to
go down steep hills, or do big jumps. The bikes we had then weren’t built for that
and often broke, so I used to draw pictures of bikes with big thick tyres that would be
strong enough for what we were doing. They looked just like modern mountain
bikes. However, it wasn’t until many years later that someone actually invented
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one. By the 1980s they were everywhere.
Practice Test
At that time I was into skateboarding. I did that for a decade until falling off on to hard
surfaces started to hurt too much. Mountain biking seemed a fairly safe way to keep
fit, so I took that up instead. I made a lot of friends and got involved in racing, which
gave me a reason to train hard. I wanted to find out just how fit and fast I could get,
which turned out to be fairly quick. I even won a couple of local races.
In the end I stopped racing, mainly because I knew what it could mean to my career if
I had a bad crash. But I still like to do a three-hour mountain bike ride every week.
And if I’m out cycling in the hills and see a rider ahead, I have to beat them to the top.
As I go past I imagine how surprised they would be if they knew how old I am.
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Practice Test
For each question (11 - 15) choose the correct answer.
11 Paul enjoys mountain biking because
A. it gives him the opportunity to enjoy the views.
B. he can use the time to plan his job.
C. he is able to stop thinking about his problems.
D. it helps him to concentrate better.
12 What does Paul say about cycling during his childhood?
A. He is sorry he didn’t take more care of his bike.
B. His friends had better quality bikes than he did.
C. His bike wasn’t suitable for activities he was doing.
D. He was more interested in designing bikes than riding them. 11
Practice Test
13. Paul says he returned to cycling after several years
A. because he had become unfit.
B. so that he could enter races.
C. in order to meet new people.
D. to replace an activity he had given up.
14 How does Paul feel about cycling now?
A. He is proud that he is still so fast.
B. He is keen to do less now that he is older.
C. He regrets the fact that he can no longer compete.
D. He wishes more people were involved into sport. 12
Practice Test
15. What would be a good introduction to this article?
A. B.
For Paul Wellingson nothing Artist Paul Wellingson takes
matters more than mountain mountain biking pretty
biking, not even his career. seriously. Here he describes
Here in his own words he tells how it all began and what he
us why. gets out of it.
C. D. After discovering mountain
In this article Paul Wellingson
biking late in life, Paul
explains how he became an
Wellingson gave up art to
artist only as a result of his
concentrate on getting as good
interest in mountain biking.
as possible. 13
That’s all
Thank you
