C2 Proficiency - Open Cloze
Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)
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The second part of the Reading and Use of English paper in the C2 Proficiency Examination is open cloze, in which students must use only one word to fill each space in a short text. The required words are usually grammatical, such as pronouns, articles, relative pronouns, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and so on.
6. The southern states of the USA ________ to be hot and humid in the summer.
Open Cloze Worksheet 1 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 2 - Answer Sheet
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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
Open Cloze Worksheet 8 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 9 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 10 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 11 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 12 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 13 - 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 14 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 15 - Answer Sheet
Open Cloze Worksheet 16 - Answer Sheet
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