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A2 Key for Schools Reading & Writing Part 2 – Teacher’s Notes 
 
Description 
 
In this activity, students firstly identify parts of speech tested in Part 2, then they explore why two of the 
options are wrong. They then identify the correct answer, before looking at a sample task. 
Time required: 25 minutes 
Materials 
required: 
 Student’s Worksheets 1 and 2 (1 copy per group of worksheet 1,cut 
up) 
 Sample Task 
Aims:  to familiarise students with Part 2 Key Reading & Writing 
 to raise awareness of parts of speech 
 to focus on distractors and the reasons for them not fitting in a gap 
Procedure 
1. Put the students into small groups of 4 or 5 students and give each group a set of the cut -up words 
from student’s worksheet 1. Also give them a blank sheet of A4 paper. Tell them to draw 3 columns 
on the sheet and head each column with: noun, verb or adjective. 
2. Explain that the words are different parts of speech. Ask them to identify whether the words are 
nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs and place them in the appropriate column. 
3. Students should then look at the sentences on the student’s worksheet 2 and decide which part of 
speech is needed. They should write the number of the sentence at the top of each column – just 
under the heading. This focus on grammar, context and meaning is a useful strategy for Part 2 
because it helps candidates to focus on the sentence as a whole. 
4. Check that students have placed the words in the appropriate column and have identified the correct 
part of speech for each sentence (see key). 
5. Explain that the cut-up words are not the correct answers for each sentence. The cut-up words have 
a similar meaning to the correct answers but they are ‘distractors’, i.e. wrong answers which are close 
to the correct answer but not correct. In each three-option multiple choice question in the Key 
Reading & Writing test (Part 2, Part 3, some Part 4 tasks and Part 5), there are two distractors. It is 
useful for candidates to gain practise in identifying and ruling out incorrect options as this helps them 
to confirm which is the correct answer. 
 
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6. Ask students to think about why the cut-up words do not fit in the 6 sentences. Tell them to consider 
the meaning of the words and the way they are used in a sentence. For example, although ‘excellent’ 
and ‘favourite’ are adjectives they would not replace ‘popular’ in the sentence: ‘The internet café 
quickly became popular with Ivan and his friends.’ It may help to give students example sentences in 
which the distractors would occur: Ivan thought it was an excellent internet cafe.’ ‘The internet café 
was Ivan’s favourite place to meet his friends’ and compare the way the adjectives are used. 
7. In pairs, students now decide what word would fill each gap correctly. Don’t check any answers yet, 
but monitor to help them think about the words they’re choosing. Point out that it can be useful to try 
to complete the gaps before you look at the options in the exam. 
8. Write the correct words on the board. The words are mixed up and the students need to decide which 
sentence they go in. 
meets useful takes kinds opened popular 
 
9. Check students’ answers and then ask them to compare the answers they gave for step 7. 
10. Point out that the sentences you’ve been working on have all been on one topic: an internet café. 
Give out the sample task to show how the task looks in the exam. Elicit that the topic is given in the 
instructions (Read the sentences about an internet café.) and in the example sentence (Last month 
an internet café opened near Ivan’s house.). Discuss whether students think it’s better to do the 
questions one at a time, or to read the whole text once before they begin. There’s no correct answer, 
but it’s probably better to read the text first to get a general understanding and to start to think about 
possible answers. 
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A2 Key for Schools Reading & Writing Part 2 – Answer Keys 
 
Key to Student’s Worksheet 2 
 
 
Nouns Verbs Adjectives 
5 1,3,4 2, 6 
things 
ways 
began 
arrived 
has 
gets 
waits 
goes 
certain 
sure 
favourite 
excellent 
 
 
1. Last month an internet café……opened…… near Ivan’s house. 
 
2. The internet café quickly became …popular……. with Ivan and his friends. 
 
3. It only …takes……Ivan 10 minutes to get to the café. 
 
4. Ivan often …meets……..his friends there after school. 
 
5. The café has different…kinds….. of computer games they can play. 
 
6. Ivan thinks there is a lot of …useful….information on the internet. 
 
 
 
 
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A2 Key for Schools Reading & Writing Part 2 – Student’s Worksheet 1 
 
Cut this set of words up and give a copy to each group. 
 
 
 
 
goes 
 
 
 
 
 
 
sure 
 
 
 
has 
 
 
 
favourite 
 
 
 
began 
 
 
 
 
 
 
things 
 
 
 
gets 
 
 
 
certain 
 
 
 
arrived 
 
 
 
 
 
 
excellent 
 
 
 
waits 
 
 
 
kinds 
 
 
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A2 Key for Schools Reading & Writing Part 2 – Student’s Worksheet 2 
 
 
 
1. Last month an internet café ………… near Ivan’s house. 
 
 
 
2. The internet café quickly became ………. with Ivan and his friends. 
 
 
 
3. It only ………… Ivan 10 minutes to get to the café. 
 
 
 
4. Ivan often ……….. his friends there after school. 
 
 
 
5. The café has different ……...... of computer games they can play. 
 
 
 
6. Ivan thinks there is a lot of …….... information on the internet. 
 
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