LISTENING PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 PART 4 READING PART 5 PART 6 PART 7 READING PART 6 PART 7 PART 5 INCOMPLETE SENTENCES • A word or phrase is missing in each of the sentences. • There are four answer choices. Choose the best one. • Read the questions quickly to choose the correct answer choices. • Bases on the time expression, context of the statement, position of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs…. • Eliminate answer choices that you know are incorrect. • Move on to the next question if you don’t immediately know the answer. • Pay attention to the time. STRATEGY OVERVIEW • • • • • • • • Word families Similar words Pronouns Prepositions Coordinate conjunctions Subordinate conjunctions Verb tense Phrasal verbs • Word families are words that have the same root but different endings. • The ending show the part of speech of the word and tell you how a word is used in a sentence. • The root word is often a noun or verb, but it can be any part of speech. A word that show action a) V + -ion/-tion/-ation/-ition/-sion => N Product conserve repete permit Pollute => => => => => production conservation repetition permission pollution b) V + -ment/-ance/-ence/-age/-ing/-al => N Employ Attend Differ Marry Swim Arrive => => => => => => employment attendance difference marriage swimming arrival c) V + -er/-or/-ant/-ee/ => N Drive Act Account Employ Interview Apply => => => => => => driver actor accountant employee interviewee / Interviewer applicant d) N + -ist/-an/-ian/-ess => N Physic America Library Music Science => => => => => physicist American librarian musician scientist e) Adj + -y/-ity/-ness/-ism/-dom/ -ship => N Difficult Responsible Happy Free Friend => => => => => difficulty responsibility happiness freedom friendship f) THE + ADJ ---> NOUN the poor, the blind, the deaf, the old, the sick, the weak, the unemployed, the disabled, the dead, the young… Adj/N + -ize/-en/-ate/-fy => V industrial wide Origin beauty modern => => => => => industrialize widen originate beautify modernize a) N + -ly/-like/-less/-ish/-y/-ful/-al/-ic/ ---> Adj Day => daily Child => childlike Tree => treeless Rain => rainy Peace => peaceful Agriculture => agricultural Science => scientific Success => successful b) V/N + -ive/-able/-ible => Adj Attract Accept Eat Active => => => => attractive acceptable eatable active Adj + -ly => Adv slow Care Safe => Slowly => carefully => safely Verb Believe Noun Belief Believer Adjective Believable # unbeliveable Adverb Believably # unbelievably Compete Competition Competitior competitive competitively Continue continuation Continuous Continual Continuously continually Differ Difference Different differently Economize Economy Economics Economic Economical Economically Employ Employment # Employed unemployment # unemployed Employer / Employee Impress Impression Impressive Impressively Succeed success Successful # unsuccessful Successfully unsuccessfully a/ an/ the/ this/ that… my/ her/ his…/ Mary’s + (adj) + N many/ some/ a lot of… ---------------------------------------------------------V (MAKE, KEEP, FIND…) + O + ADJ Ex: We should keep our room clean. ---------------------------------------------------------(something, someone, anything, anybody, everything, nobody…) + ADJ Ex: Do you have anything important to tell me? NOUN 1. Subject Ex: English is my favorite subject N V 2. Object Ex: I like movies. V N 3. my, your, our, their, his, her, its + N Ex: She is my student. possessive Adj N 4. good, beautiful....+ N Ex: She is a good teacher. Adj N NOUN 5.- a, an, the - this, that, these, those +N - each, every, both, no, some, any, few, a few, little, a little… Ex: I really love this book. N 6. in, on, of, with, under, about, at…+ N Susan is good at Maths N 7. Enough + N Ex: He doesn’t have enough money to buy this car. N Adjective 1. Adj + N Ex: Son Tung MTP is a famous singer 2. Tobe seem/appear/feel/taste/look/keep/get Ex: She is beautiful. Tom looks tired. 3. Too + adj Ex: John is too old to play this sport. + adj Adjective 4. Adj + enough Ex: He is rich enough to afford a house. 5. Comparison Ex: You are taller than me. He is the most handsome in my class. Tom is as tall as Helen. 6. How +adj + S + V What + (a/an) + adj + N Ex: How beautiful she is! What a beautiful girl! Adverb 1. Adv + V ( always, usually, often/ sometimes…) Ex: I usually go to school. 2. V + Adv Ex: He speaks so quickly. 3. Adv + Adj Ex: She is extremely lazy. 4. Adv + Adv Ex: He speaks extremely quickly. Verb 1. S + V Ex: Jane lives in New York. 2.Want to + V would like to + V …………… Ex: I want to take a rest. I would like to have a cup of coffee. STRATEGIES - Try to answer the question on your own without reading all the choices. - Look quickly at the answers choices, based on the statement, choose the correct answer. I want to ______ in the future. (A) Successful (B) Success (C) Succeed (D) Succeeding - If you do not immediately know the answer, move on. Do not waste time on one question. - Eliminate options that you know are not correct. - If you still do not know the answer, guess. 1.We will ____ our decision when we sign the papers. (A)Formalize (B)Formal (C)Formally (D)formality 2. The ____ of your speech cannot be more than 30 minutes. (A)Long (B)Length (C)Lengthen (D)Lengthened 3. The _____ location for our new office is downtown. (A)Preference (B)Preferably (C)Preferable (D)Prefer 4. As soon as everybody is happy with the ____, we will sign the papers. (A)Agree (B)Agreeable (C)Agreement (D)Agreeably 5. It was very ____ of the boss to buy us those nice gifts. (A)Thoughtfully (B)Thoughtful (C)Thoughts (D)Thought 6. Our company believes it is the best _____ to handle. (A)Organize (B)Organizational (C)Organizationally (D)organization 7. We need to ____ sales of the new product. (A)Strong (B)Strongly (C)Strengthen (D)Strenuous 8/ This new software is ____ easy to use. (A)Wonderful (B)Wonderfully (C)Wondering (D)Wonder 9. He was very happy about his ___ into the university graduate program. (A)Acceptance (B)Acceptable (C)Acceptably (D)accept 10. They hired her because her ___ is international finance. (A)Special (B)Specially (C)Specialty (D)specialize 1. Have you made up your mind? We need to know your ………as soon as possible. DECIDE 2. . He's too shy to look people ………………… when he talks to them. DIRECT 3. I don't like those trousers, no matter how …………………….. they are. FASHION 4. The concert didn't live up to our………………… EXPECT 5. I ……………… think that there's no point in arguing with him. Just ignore him. HONEST 8. Music and television are forms of………………… ENTERTAIN
