Cambridge English Financial Icfe Reading Part 2

ICFE Reading Paper Part 2 – teacher’s notes
Description
The aim of this activity is to introduce students to this part of the exam and what it focuses
on, as well as raising awareness of the strategies required.
Time required: 60 minutes

Materials  Student Worksheet 1
required:
 Sample Task 2
Aims:  to familiarise students with Reading Part 2 and the strategies
needed to deal with it successfully
 to raise awareness of the grammatical words tested
 to practise a Reading Part 2 task.
Procedure
1. Write ‘Reading Part 2 – open cloze’ on the board and elicit what students already
know, if anything, about this part of the exam. (Refer to the ICFE Handbook for
guidance). Write down any ideas on the whiteboard.
2. Hand out Student Worksheet 1 and ask students to read the summary on Reading
Part 2 to check their ideas. They should ignore the gaps. Once they have finished
reading, go through the ideas from Step 1 with the whole class, and answering any
queries students may have at this stage as appropriate.
3. Refer students to Student Worksheet 1 question 2. They should read the text
again, this time trying to complete the gaps individually. Allow 8–10 minutes for this.
4. Once they have finished, ask them to compare and discuss their answers in pairs or
groups of three. Then check answers with the whole class, allowing students to
explain why they chose each word and analysing why they are correct or not.
5. Refer students to Student Worksheet 1 question 3. Ask students to look at the
kinds of words they used to complete the passage and to work in pairs to complete
the table. Check answers with the whole class once they have finished (see key
below).
6. Refer students to Student Worksheet 1 question 4. They should underline words in
the text before and after each gap which helped them decide on the correct word.
Remind them of the importance of learning new words as ‘chunks’. Elicit examples of
chunks from the text and write them on the board, e.g. focus on, awareness and
control of, such as, be able to, each one, etc. Point out/Elicit also that students first
read the whole text for general meaning before they started to consider the gaps.
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This is a useful strategy they should use in Part 2, and they should consider the
meaning of the whole text as they select their answers.
7. Refer students to the Sample Task and ask them to complete the gaps individually,
underlining any key words which help them to make a decision. Allow 8–10 minutes.
8. Do a whole class check, analysing students’ choices and explaining why each word
is the right one (see key below).
9. Ask students to look at Student Worksheet 2 and decide if the sentences about
Reading Part 2 are true or false (see key below). If you do not have enough time, this
activity can be set for homework.
Suggested follow-up activities

10. Encourage students to keep a record of new collocations, set phrases, expressions
and phrasal verbs they come across, and do the same in class, e.g. when dealing
with a text.
11. Homework idea: Students can be asked to find a finance-related article (in a
magazine, on the internet, newspapers, etc) and delete 12 words from it. (Remind
them to gap words such as prepositions, auxiliaries, conjunctions, etc). Once in
class, students swap articles and try to complete the gaps with appropriate words.
Then they exchange again and correct each other.
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ICFE Reading Paper Part 2 – answer keys
Key to Procedure Step 5

Prepositions: on, of, to, in
Articles: the
Pronouns: which, as, each, both
Key to Student’s Worksheet 1

Question 2
1) on 2) of 3) as 4) the 5) in
6) to 7) both 8) each 9) which
Question 3
Part of speech Examples
Prepositions on, in, of, to
Articles the
Pronouns both, each, which, as
Key to Student’s Worksheet 2

1. F (There are 12 questions)
2. T
3. T
4. F (prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliaries and quantifiers)
5. F (that is the case in Reading Part 1, not in Part 2)
6. T
7. T (If this is the case, candidates much choose one answer only. If they write two
answers, they will be marked wrong.)
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Key to Sample Task 2
13. for collocation

with collocation
who / that relative clause referring to a person (anyone)
at collocation
which relative clause referring to a thing (way)
so adverbial phrase so ... that expressing cause and effect
be/ get passive infinitive following modal verb can
than collocation
all collocation, must fit plural noun following
when/if conjunction expressing possible circumstances
while/ whilst/ conjunction expressing partial agreement
although/ though
to collocation
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ICFE Reading Paper Part 2 – Student’s Worksheet 1
1. Read the text below and check your ideas about Reading Part 2.
Reading Part 2
This part of the exam focuses (1)…………awareness and control

(2)………….structural items such (3)………….conjunctions, prepositions,
pronouns,
1. auxiliaries and quantifiers. You are required to fill (4)……… gaps in a
text with one word only. (5)………….some cases you might be able (6)…………
think of two different words to complete one gap, (7)……………of which seem
correct. When that happens, you should read the sentence carefully with
(8)………….one of the words in the gap and decide (9)…………….one sounds
better.
2. Now read the text again and try to complete the gaps. Take no more than 10
minutes
3. What kinds of words have you used? Complete the grid:
Part of speech Examples
4. Underline the words before and after the gap which helped you decide on the
correct word.
It is very important to learn new words as part of ‘chunks’. Knowing the meaning of
a word is useful, but knowing how to use it in context is vital. Words are not used in
isolation and will often form part of an expression or fixed set of words.
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ICFE Reading Paper Part 2 – Student’s Worksheet 2
Now check how much you know about Reading Part 2.

Decide if the following sentences are True (T) or False (F).
1. There are 10 questions to answer.
2. You have to write one word per gap.
3. You can take around 8–10 minutes to do this task.
4. All the gapped words are prepositions.
5. You have options to choose from.
6. Spelling is important.
7. Sometimes there’s more than one possible answer.
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ICFE Reading Paper Part 2 – Sample Task
Questions 13 – 24
Read the following extract from an article about evaluating company performance.
Think of the best word to fill each gap.
For each question 13 – 24, write one word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
Example:
0
T H E R E
EVALUATING COMPANY PERFORMANCE
It is clear that (0) …….... is a need for companies in both the public and private sectors to
develop appropriate performance measures. Setting performance targets and then evaluating
achievements against these targets should provide a basis (13) …….... improved
management. It is important that these measures are not concerned simply (14) ……....
financial issues.
However, many difficulties will confront anyone (15) …….... is tasked with developing a system
aimed (16) …….... setting up such targets. For example, the way in (17) …….... objectives are
set can present serious problems. In many cases, objectives are (18) …….... vaguely drafted
that useful performance measures can rarely (19) …….... developed. Also, there is the
difficulty of measuring quality, where the danger is that quantity rather (20) …….... quality is
emphasised, because, in almost (21) …….... cases, quantity is easier to evaluate. Therefore,
we get a somewhat distorted picture (22) …….... easily measurable aspects of performance
take precedence over those that are more difficult to measure.
(23) …….... the importance of evaluating performance is recognised, the difficulties involved
should not be overlooked. An awareness of these difficulties and an understanding of their
possible impact should, however, lead (24) …….... the development of more effective and
better balanced systems.
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ICFE Reading Paper Part 2 – teacher’s notes

Time required: 60 minutes

Suggested follow-up activities

Key to Procedure Step 5

Key to Student’s Worksheet 1

Key to Student’s Worksheet 2

13. for collocation

This part of the exam focuses (1)…………awareness and control

Part of speech Examples

Now check how much you know about Reading Part 2.

1. There are 10 questions to answer.

2. You have to write one word per gap.

3. You can take around 8–10 minutes to do this task.

4. All the gapped words are prepositions.

5. You have options to choose from.

7. Sometimes there’s more than one possible answer.

EVALUATING COMPANY PERFORMANCE

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