Use of English del B2 First en 2027: las cuatro partes, la puntuación y las trampas

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1. 0:00Solo tres partes hacen la nota
2. 0:19Cómo se calcula tu puntuación
3. 1:11Parte 1: multiple-choice cloze
4. 1:58Parte 2: open cloze
5. 2:43Parte 3: word formation
6. 3:34Parte 4: key word transformations
7. 4:27Qué practicar en cada parte
8. 4:56Práctica gratis de la parte 1

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1. 0:00Most guides call Parts one to four of B2 First the Use of English, but your Use of English score comes from only three of them.
2. 0:10And the part with the fewest questions is worth the most marks.
3. 0:14Each part tests a different way of knowing a word, and each one has its own trap.
4. 0:20Reading and Use of English is one paper: seventy-five minutes, seven parts and fifty-two questions.
5. 0:27Your results, though, show five scores: Reading, Use of English, Writing, Listening and Speaking, and each one is a fifth of the overall result.
6. 0:38Part one is marked as Reading, together with Parts five, six and seven.
7. 0:44Your Use of English score comes from Parts two, three and four: twenty-eight marks in all.
8. 0:51Parts two and three give one mark a question, but Part four gives up to two, so its six questions carry twelve of those twenty-eight marks.
9. 1:00No single part has a pass mark of its own: the five scores are averaged on the Cambridge English Scale, where one hundred sixty to one hundred seventy-nine is B2.
10. 1:12Part one is a short text with eight gaps and four options for each gap.
11. 1:17The options often mean almost the same, so it tests which word English pairs with another: collocations, phrasal verbs and linking phrases.
12. 1:28The trap is to stop reading at the gap, because the word after it often decides the answer.
13. 1:34Here the word after the gap is rain, and a card from our collocations deck settles it.
14. 1:48Rain is heavy in English, never strong or big, and it is the wind that is strong.
15. 1:54Its eight marks still count, on your Reading score.
16. 1:58Part two is another text with eight gaps, but now there are no options: you write one word in each.
17. 2:05The missing words are mostly small ones: prepositions, articles, pronouns, auxiliaries and the fixed part of a phrase.
18. 2:15It tests what a word needs around it, and the spelling has to be right.
19. 2:19One rule catches people out: a contraction counts as two words, so didn't can never fill a gap.
20. 2:27This grammar card from our kit shows why that matters.
21. 2:34Whose is one word that shows possession, while who's, which sounds the same, is two: who is, or who has.
22. 2:43Part three gives you a word in capitals at the end of the line, and you change it to fit the gap.
23. 2:49It tests word families: prefixes, suffixes and changes inside the word, and the answer is never the word as given.
24. 2:58In this sentence from our word formation deck, the word in capitals is employ.
25. 3:04The gap is the subject of the sentence, so it needs a noun: employment.
26. 3:10But a factory closing does not add jobs, so the word must be negative: unemployment.
27. 3:22Two changes for one mark, as the note on the card points out.
28. 3:27The trap is to write the family member you know best, so read the whole sentence before you build the word.
29. 3:34Part four has no text: six separate sentences, each rewritten around a key word.
30. 3:41You complete the new sentence in two to five words, with contractions counted as two, and the key word must not change.
31. 3:49On this card from our kit, people say that the old castle is haunted, and the key word is said.
32. 3:56The answer is four words: is said to be.
33. 4:06Answers like this one are marked in two halves, a mark for each: is said, then to be.
34. 4:14So half an answer still earns a mark, but six words earn nothing, however good the grammar.
35. 4:21Six questions and twelve marks: no other Use of English part pays as much for each question.
36. 4:27So the four parts reward four kinds of knowing: a word's partner, the small words around it, its family, and the structures it fits.
37. 4:38Our English B2 First kit has a deck built for each kind, from two hundred fifty collocations to one hundred eighty transformation and grammar cards.
38. 4:49The cards show the word in capitals or the key word, as the exam does, and you type the answer, so spelling counts.
39. 4:57Start with our free practice text: eight gaps in the shape of Part one, marked at once, with every answer explained.
40. 5:05The link is below, next to a free check of how many of the kit's words you already know.
41. 5:11Read past every gap, count every word, and spell it right.

Una guía en vídeo de cinco minutos sobre el Use of English del Cambridge B2 First: cómo se calcula la puntuación (la parte 1 cuenta para Reading; las partes 2, 3 y 4 forman la nota de Use of English, y la parte 4 vale 12 de sus 28 puntos), qué evalúa cada una de las cuatro partes y la trampa de cada una, con tarjetas del Kit de examen de inglés B2 First.