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B1 Preliminary Parte 5: multiple choice cloze de vocabulario
La parte 5 del B1 Preliminary: el multiple choice cloze de vocabulario, con el método de las collocations y ejercicios con soluciones explicadas.
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La parte 5 es un texto corto con seis huecos y cuatro opciones para cada uno. Es vocabulario, no gramática: casi siempre se decide por qué palabras van juntas en inglés, lo que se llama collocation.
El método
| Paso | Qué hacer |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lee el texto entero antes de mirar ninguna opción. |
| 2 | Mira la palabra que va justo antes y justo después del hueco. La combinación fija está ahí. |
| 3 | Si las cuatro opciones significan casi lo mismo, es una pregunta de collocation: make a decision pero do your homework. |
| 4 | Comprueba también la preposición que viene después: muchas veces solo una de las cuatro la admite. |
Ejercicio 2 · Elige la palabra que encaja
Cada número corresponde a un hueco del texto de arriba.
How I started cooking
My grandmother (1) me how to cook when I was eight. At first I was not very (2) at it, and I burnt almost everything. But a few years later I (3) up cooking as a proper hobby. Now I (4) dinner for the whole family every Sunday. It is a great way to (5) time with them, and I would (6) recommend it to anyone.
My grandmother (1) me how to cook when I was eight. At first I was not very (2) at it, and I burnt almost everything. But a few years later I (3) up cooking as a proper hobby. Now I (4) dinner for the whole family every Sunday. It is a great way to (5) time with them, and I would (6) recommend it to anyone.
- (1)taughtlearnedstudiedknewtaught — teach somebody how to do something es enseñar. Learn es aprender: lo hace quien recibe, no quien da.
- (2)wellgoodniceablegood — be good at something. Well es adverbio y no va detrás de was; able pediría to.
- (3)putgottookmadetook — take up a hobby es empezar una actividad nueva. Es phrasal verb fijo.
- (4)dotakehavemakemake — make dinner es preparar la cena. Have dinner sería cenársela, que no es lo que dice el texto.
- (5)spendgainlosewinspend — spend time with someone. En español decimos «pasar tiempo», y de ahí sale el error de poner pass.
- (6)hardlyhighlybarelyrarelyhighly — highly recommend es la collocation. Ojo con hardly: no significa «duramente», significa «apenas», así que diría lo contrario.
Ejercicio 2 · Multiple choice cloze
Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco.
The village library that stayed open
When the council announced that our village library would close, nobody (1) it seriously at first. The building was small and old, and only a (2) of people used it every day. But within a week a group of neighbours had (3) a meeting in the church hall, and almost a hundred people turned (4) .
Since then the library has been run by volunteers. It opens four afternoons a week and (5) on Saturday mornings. There are fewer books than before, but there is now a coffee machine, a reading club for children and a shelf (6) entirely to local history.
What surprised everyone was how many people offered to help. Some had never (7) a library card in their lives. As one volunteer put it, the village did not really want the books; it wanted the (8) .
- Hueco 1madehadtookputtook it seriously es la colocación fija: tomárselo en serio.
- Hueco 2piececouplenumberhandfula handful of people = un puñado de personas. A couple serían solo dos.
- Hueco 3calledsaidtoldspokencalled a meeting = convocar una reunión.
- Hueco 4onupinoverturn up = presentarse, aparecer.
- Hueco 5tooas wellalsoeitheralso va delante del verbo dentro de la frase; too y as well irían al final.
- Hueco 6givenofferedturneddevoteddevoted to = dedicado a.
- Hueco 7ownedbelongedkeptheldowned a library card = haber tenido carné. Belong necesitaría to.
- Hueco 8placeroomspaceareathe place aquí significa el sitio como punto de encuentro, no el espacio físico.
Ejercicio 3 · Multiple choice cloze
Elige la palabra que encaja en cada hueco.
Learning to sail at forty
I had always (1) of learning to sail, but I kept putting it (2) . Last spring, without telling anyone, I signed (3) for a beginners course at a small club on the coast.
The first day was humbling. I could not remember a single knot and I spent most of the afternoon (4) instructions I did not understand. By the third weekend, though, things began to (5) sense. The instructor, a patient woman in her sixties, kept saying that the boat would do the work if I stopped fighting it.
What I did not (6) was how tiring it would be. After each lesson I slept better than I had in years. I am still a bad sailor, but I no longer feel (7) on the water, and that, for the (8) being, is enough.
- Hueco 1wishedhopeddreamedwanteddream of + -ing. Wish y hope no llevan of.
- Hueco 2awaydownoutoffput off = posponer.
- Hueco 3upinonoversign up for = apuntarse a.
- Hueco 4chasingfollowingpursuingtrackingfollowing instructions es la colocación normal.
- Hueco 5takegivemakehavemake sense = tener sentido.
- Hueco 6waithopelookexpectexpect = esperarse algo. Wait necesitaría for.
- Hueco 7ridiculousashamedembarrassingshyridiculous describe cómo se siente él; embarrassing describiría la situación, no a la persona.
- Hueco 8momenttimewhilepresentfor the time being = por ahora. Es una expresión fija.
Preguntas frecuentes
¿La parte 5 es gramática o vocabulario?
Vocabulario. La gramática se examina en la parte 6, que es el open cloze.
¿Cómo se estudia esto?
Aprendiendo las palabras en grupo, no sueltas. No memorices decision: memoriza make a decision.