B1 Preliminary
Cambridge (PET)
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Below you will find materials to help you prepare your students for the B1 Preliminary (PET) examination.
Reading
Part One: Real World Multiple Choice
The first part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is multiple choice, where students read five real-world notices, messages and other short texts and choose the best answer for each question.
Part Two: Matching
The second part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is matching, where students have to match five descriptions of people to eight short texts on a particular topic.
Part Three: Reading Comprehension Multiple Choice
The third part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is reading comprehension multiple-choice, where students have to read a passage and then answer five multiple-choice questions.
Part Four: Gapped Text
The fourth part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is gapped text, where students have to read a passage from which five sentences have been removed.
Part Five: Multiple Choice Cloze
The fifth part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is multiple choice cloze where students have to choose the correct word from four similar given words.
Part Six: Open Cloze
The sixth and final part of the B1 Preliminary reading paper is open cloze, in which students use only one word to fill each space in a short text. The words that are needed are usually grammatical, such as pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and so on.