C1 Advanced - Open Cloze
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
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The second part of the Reading & Use of English paper in the C1 Advanced Examination is open cloze, in which students use one word to fill each space in a short text. The required words are usually grammatical, such as pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and so on.
3. You're ________ from perfect, Jon. Only last year, you lost those files, remember?
Open Cloze Worksheet 1 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 2 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 3 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 4 - Answer Sheet
Students should read the whole sentence or the whole text. Often the answer required for the space is dependent on a word or reference many words before or after it. Look at this example:
Kathy spent the afternoon looking for the phone and finally John admitted taking it because he hadn't known that it was ______.
The answer is "HERS" but your students wouldn't know that unless they'd read the name that appears TWENTY-ONE words before the gap!
Open Cloze Worksheet 5 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 6 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 7 - Answer Sheet
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Open Cloze Worksheet 8 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 9 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 10 - Answer Sheet
Encourage students to keep a database of difficult open cloze questions. This could be on their computer or in a notebook. You might suggest that they list them like this:
put it IN order (to put something in order)
licked ITS paw (pronoun for objects/animals)
set UP a company (phrasal verb 'set up', to establish, create)
Open Cloze Worksheet 11 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 12 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 13 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 14 - Answer Sheet
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Open Cloze Worksheet 16 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 17 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 18 - Answer Sheet
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