Tlumaczenia? Translation? No problem!

SUGGESTED APPROACH AND HINTS

In this part you must identify errors in a 17-line text. Some of the lines are correct but most of the lines contain an extra wrong word which should not be there.

15 QUESTIONS

• Read the title of the text - it’ll help you to know what’s next.
• Read the text through quickly.
• Read through sentence by sentence; remember extra words must be wrong, not just extra.
• Remember:
  • The text and the type of errors are similar to ones that BEC students might produce in their own writing.
  • Before you decide whether a line is right or wrong, you need to get information from the whole sentence, not just single line.
  • Most of errors will be grammatical: prepositions, auxiliary verbs, articles, pronouns. They are the words that don’t usually mean anything in themselves and many of them are up to four letters long.
  • Some of errors might look right, but if you think about them, they don’t make sense e.g. All my parents came….
• Say the words in your mind to “hear” if they sound correct.