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A DETAILED GUIDE TO BEC PRELIMINARY

TEST OF READING AND WRITING

BEC PRELIMINARY

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes

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A DETAILED LOOK AT THE TASKSREADING

such as ‘rose steadily’, ‘remained stable’, ‘decreased slowly’,‘reached a peak’should be introduced to students, alongwith relevant topics, such as sales of goods, share pricemovement and monthly costs.

BEC PRELIMINARY

Part One

In this part there are five short texts, each of which is

accompanied by a multiple choice question containing threeoptions. In all cases the information will be brief and clearand the difficulty of the task will not lie in understandingcontext but in identifying or interpreting meaning.

Awide variety of text types, representative of those likely tobe encountered in international business, can appear in thispart. Each text will be complete and have a recognisablecontext.

Part Four

This task is a text accompanied by seven, three-optionmultiple choice items. Each question presents a statementand candidates are expected to indicate whether the

statement is A‘Right’or B ‘Wrong’according to the text, orwhether the information is not given in the text (C ‘Doesn’tsay’). Candidates will not be expected to understand everyword in the text but they should be able to pick out salientpoints and infer meaning where words in the text are

unfamiliar. The questions will refer to factual information inthe text, but candidates will be required to do someprocessing in order to answer the questions correctly.

Preparation

In order to prepare for this part it would be useful to exposestudents to a wide range of notices and short texts takenfrom business settings. It is also useful to practise answeringsample questions, asking students to explain why an answeris correct (and why the two incorrect options do not apply).

Preparation

This can be a difficult task for candidates who are notfamiliar with the three choices represented by A, B and C,and who might not understand the difference between astatement that is incorrect and one that depends on

information that is not provided in the text. Students need tobe trained to identify a false statement, which means that theopposite or a contradictory statement is made in the text,and to recognise that this is not the same as a statement thatis not covered in the text.

Part Two

This is a matching task comprising one text and fivequestions, which are often descriptions of people’srequirements. Candidates are required to match each

question to an appropriate part of the text, labelled A– H.(As there are only five questions, some of the labels areredundant.) The testing focus of this part is vocabulary andmeaning, using skimming and scanning skills.

Part Five

This part presents a single text accompanied by six multiplechoice comprehension items. The text is informative and isoften taken from a leaflet, or from a newspaper or magazinearticle.

Candidates are expected to employ more complex readingstrategies in this task, in that they should demonstrate theirability to extract relevant information, to read for gist anddetail, to scan the text for specific information, and tounderstand the purpose of the writer and the audience forwhich the text is intended.

Preparation

For preparation purposes, students need to be familiar withtext types that are pided into lists, headings or categories;e.g. the contents page of a directory or book, the plan of anoffice, the departments in a business or shop, the items in acatalogue, etc. Many of the questions in this part require asimple interpretation of what different parts of the text mean,and preparation for this could involve setting students real-world tasks of this kind using authentic (but simple) sources.

Part Three

This task consists of eight graphs or charts (or one or moregraphics with eight distinct elements) and five questions.Each question is a description of a particular graphic (orelement of a graphic) and candidates are expected to matchthe questions to their corresponding graphs which arelabelled A– H.

Preparation

In preparing candidates for this part, it would be a good ideato expose them to a variety of texts of a similar length. Astexts become longer, slow readers are at a disadvantage andsome practice in improving reading speed would be

beneficial for this part. It would also be useful to discuss thefollowing areas: title

topic

the writer’s purpose

the theme or main idea of each paragraph

Preparation

This part focuses on understanding trends and changes.

Candidates need to be able to interpret graphic data andunderstand the language used to describe it. Expressions

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factual details that can be found in the textthe writer’s opinions (if they are evident)

the form of a note, message, memo or e-mail. Candidates aregiven the layout of memos and e-mails (e.g. to/from/date/subject) on the question paper, and need not copy this out aspart of their answer. The reason for writing and the targetreader are specified in the rubric, and bullet points explainwhat content points have to be included. Relevant ideas forone or more of these points will have to be ‘invented’by thecandidate.

BEC PRELIMINARY

Part Six

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