E2 PTE Reading | Fill in the Blanks | Extended Method with Jay!

hello everybody my name is J I'm one of the expert to PT e teachers here at e to language what we're going to do in this live class is look at PT reading fill-in-the-blanks what we're going to do more specifically is I'm going to give you an overview of this task I'll tell you how many questions you're gonna get how long should spend on each of the questions etc we're going to learn some theory about collocations and word types because that's actually what this task is testing for once you understood that we can get to number three which is the method before finally doing some practice and I'll take you through the answers okay so firstly in overview this is what PT reading fill-in-the-blanks looks like on test day it's pretty straightforward what you need to do is drag one of these words into the gap to form a collocation which I'll tell you about later now the text that you will see will be 80 words max so we're talking between sort of three and five sentences so it's not a long text at all and in the text you'll get sort of four or five maybe six gaps and there might be up to eight answer options so there will always be more answer options than there are gaps you get four or five of these items on test day in a row and you should be spending around sixty seconds max on each of these tasks okay cool so that was the overview let's have a brief chat about some theory but if you do not have time to stick around and watch this maybe what you want to do is watch the Express methods lessons they're on a two language comm they're much shorter they're very sharp and they're very powerful all right let's discuss collocations because this is really what you're being tested on in for this task a collocation really this this refers to how words combine and it also refers to how natural or native like your vocabulary sounds okay collocations are a very good test of your English ability really there are two ways that I can tell if your if you have native like English or not the first one is through pronunciation if you speak to me and your first language comes through and you have a thick accent that's one way that I can tell that you're not native like the sounds of the language the second way is the way in which you use vocabulary do you use your vocabulary not necessarily single words but groups of words together in a native like way are your expressions and the phrases you use native like this is what collocations do they make you sound native length they're really really important they're important not just for speaking but also for writing as well you want to make sure you include these in your essay for example all right cool I'm going to show you what they are first but first of all I want you to I want you to see if you can actually identify some collocation some combinations of vocabulary in this paragraph you okay so in fact in this short paragraph there are a number of collocations of combinations of words for example prepare for which is a verb and a preposition that commonly appear together nouns nouns like food industries adjectives now like ideal preparation noun a noun like management positions noun and verb like positions demand what about noun and past participle as in consumer-focused you can also look at that focused as an adjective as well commercially aware which is an adverb and an adjective another adverb adjectives internationally orientated and technically competent so that paragraph had I don't know how many he was there like six maybe there are quite a few and what you'll find native speakers are not creative with what they say right we're not thinking of adjective and noun combinations we're pulling set phrases from our vocabulary when we speak or when we write and it sounds great and when non-native speakers use these collocations it sounds excellent it really does let's have a look at a big list of them so you can get a better idea by the way this list is available on e to language Kampf if anybody free and paid users you can download it from the reading section on if you sign up for PT e so here we have a verb adopt and here we have a noun approach so you adopt an approach or here's an adjective noun combination advanced economy or advanced technology or an adverse effect or an adverse reaction here's an adverb combination adversely effect or maybe a verb noun like you affect the outcome or affect the development okay I hate to tell you this but there are literally thousands of these on the word list that you get from e to language there are two and a half thousand now what I don't want you to do is think that you have to memorize these what this list will help you to do is raise your awareness of these commonly occurring phrases these natural sounding collocations okay that's all you need to do raise your awareness that they exist and then when you're listening and when you're reading you will actually start to see them appear okay that's what I want you to do okay let's have a look at some more closer up so let's have a look at some adjective noun combinations maybe you're already aware of these like an abstract concept on the left you have the adjective on the right you have the noun academic writing accurate assessment active involvement additional cost advanced technology Israel beautiful sounding natural phrases what about verbs and nouns like you accept responsibility for something you achieve a goal you affect the outcome you apply a method you assess the impact you attend a conference again natural sounding combinations of words verb an adverb like apply equally change dramatically communicate effectively contribute significantly differ considerably or expand rapidly add verbs and verbs and now we've switched the position so adversely effect but very rarely would you say affect adversely that's why in these ones the adverb comes first briefly describe briefly discussed carefully control clearly define closely resemble adverb adjectives almost identical acutely aware broadly similar clearly evident culturally specific or currently available adverb and past participle or the adjective form like actively involved carefully selected closely related to that preposition must accompany this phrase same with commonly associated with deeply-rooted densely-populated and you could also have noun noun commonly occurring combinations of course this one you know moment change conflict resolution a dataset employment opportunities expert opinion and gender equality so you can see that yes this is important for this particular task understanding collocations and being able to use them but also when you're writing your essay or your summarized written text or your summarized spoken text you should be trying to use these collocations as well I understand that the computer algorithm is actually programmed with these collocations and as I said before the more koala cases you know actually indicates that you're more fluent in the language cool all right let's try and answer one of these questions I'm going to give you 60 seconds think about the collocation think about the combination of words that can fill that gap you okay so this is really first step of the method but we'll get to the method in the second but what you should really be doing is scanning your eye across that text looking at the specific gap looking at the surrounding words and you should be able to start to identify some collocations there let's have a look at the answers so in the word knowledge was there and the gap next to it well it could be filled with theoretical knowledge right that's it that's a very commonly occurring collocation or next one analytical skills you've probably heard that before ultimate qualification isn't really a common collocation but extremely flexible certainly is so we've got three very common collocations and one not so common but it's the only word that could work there so that's how it applies in practice to the task alright just before we move on if you're enjoying this video if you think you're learning something from it please click that subscribe button down there we're trying to break through the 200,000 subscribers feel free to leave a comment like it and share it with your friends that would be fabulous ok and let's discuss word types because now that we understand collocations there's another little trick that can help you identify the correct answer more quickly and that is if you can understand and identify word types so what I want you to do I'm going to give you 15 seconds I want you to tell me what type of word the orange word is in this text okay there are four of them what type of word are they you okay you should be able to do it that quickly so the first one is an adjective noun combination theoretical is an adjective noun sorry knowledge is a noun same as analytical skills we've got the adjective now same as ultimate qualification adjective noun and the last one was adverb adjective now down the bottom here you can see that these are all adjectives and as I have mentioned before sometimes there will all be one type of word form in which case this won't really help you out but sometimes it's mixed sometimes down the bottom you're going to get a combination of verbs and nouns and adjectives for example so if you can identify that the gap requires an adjective it's going to help you to increase your chances of selecting the right one all right okay let's apply the method now and now that we've looked at collocations and word types really this is what we ought to do on test a first thing you need to do is determine the word type so as I said look at the gap if you can think okay I need an adjective or I need a preposition or and need a verb then what you want to do is think about the collocation now sometimes it'll be the word that's directly next to it like we saw analytical skills sometime there might be a creepy little word that gets in there and it might be the one after it for example so you might need to read a few words across but really you're looking for collocations and then simply you just drag and drop the right answer in there so let's do this one I want you to firstly determine the word types that can fit here admittedly this is a really difficult one so maybe start from this one here you all right so if you have that skill you would have been able to well actually we're not going to do that now I'm going to show you in a second now use your understanding of collocations to fill the gaps you okay maybe you need more time if you need more time do press pause and spend some more time trying to identify the answers here okay let's have a look the first one was serving which is a tricky one it was a gerund by the way I realized I've just made a mistake huge say scientists plural first they connect scientists to each other serving as modern-day intellectual salons now look at the next one even something scientific papers what type of word can fit there and what types of words are there down the bottom we need an adjective we've got public formal and that's about it we could use prescribed possibly but the answer here is formal even formal scientific papers and there's your collocation of formal paper and now beginning to well we're talking about academia we're talking about science we're talking about science writing so the next one is cite you cite blogs as references and of course we needed a verb there because we had the two so we needed the infinitive site what other verbs were there well in fact that was the owner of you you could have view blogs beginning to view blogs but that was a distractor with site ii they connect scientists to the general you should know this one public right there we have an adjective noun combination now public can function as an adjective or a noun in this phrase it's acting as the noun offering a behind-the-scenes look at how science progresses one two three four five how many did you get out of five you might want to put your answer for question number one into the comments below all right now look here is kind of interesting because usually we think about look as a verb but this is aa look so it's actually functioning as a now and this was a particularly tricky one but hopefully you've got some good ideas there about how it works okay let's do some practice I'm gonna give you two additional ones here you go 60 seconds your time starts now you okay that should be enough time especially because I showed you this one earlier let's go through the answers first of all it was ideal preparation adjective-noun now I believe we needed a verb here now if we look down the bottom we have two verbs we have desire and demand but this one required demand positions in industries which demand graduates who are blah blah blah blah blah consumer what we could say consumer aware well doesn't quite work plus the second one commercially aware is a more common collocation so we're going to go with consumer focused and commercially aware innovative internationally orientated and technically what while competent makes sense in this context so we have ideal preparation positions demand consumer focus commercially aware and technically competent you can see the collocations here let's do another one you this text is pretty tricky you probably looked at that first couple of words unicellular diatoms and thought oh I can't do this but again remember it's not really about the entire context of the text that's reading and writing fill in the blanks this one looking at the gap looking for the word type you're looking for the collocation right let's go through the answers to this one so first of all you adapt your behavior or these unicellular diatoms actually adapt their behavior to different what we have stimuli so we need an adjective we look down the bottom we see auditory is an adjective we see external is an adjective so we have to choose between those two that's pretty good that gives us a 50% chance now from the context we would choose external stimuli adapting to external stimuli based on an evaluation of their own needs and experiments semi novice robust the diatoms directed their well we need a noun orientation or starvation or sources directed their sources directed their orientation either towards nutrient sources or mating partners depending on the degree of starvation and the need to mate so there are by the way this text is quite interesting if you think about that you adapt behavior external stimuli you directed your orientation nutrients sources in fact directed orientation is not really a collocation it's just the only word that could fit nutrient sources certainly is and starvation world it's no collocation there it came from the context of the text okay just most of the time almost all of the time it will work not quite though you still need to be a little bit flexible cool that's it guys if you need help with your PT in any way do check out e to language comm it's a hundred percent online test preparation how it works is like this we've got this central platform in language calm you sign up for free if you like and you can upgrade your account on the platform you give all of the methods including the Express methods and the extended methods the practice questions grammar lessons overviews you name it the word lists from the platform we run one-on-one tutorial so we've got now currently 20-something teachers dotted around the world so if you do want a one-on-one expert tutorial and speaking or writing for example you can do that we run live group classes Monday to Thursday for PT 65 and PT 79 twice a day so that's pretty fun there's a teacher and there might be a hundred hundred and twenty students there we also deliver speaking and writing feedback as well so you can submit your speaking or writing through the platform teacher will identify what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong cool so if you do need help or you just want to download that word list check out e to language comm and that'll certainly help you out anyway I hope this lesson was helpful collocation czar hopefully something that is not invisible to you hopefully something that you will start to really pay attention to now something that you've start to identify and more importantly something that you'll start to use in your speaking and writing because as I said it makes you sound like a native speaker it really is the difference between knowing a lot of vocabulary and knowing that vocabulary so well that you sound like an American or an Australian or whatever it is so definitely a good skill anyway thanks for watching hope it was helpful I'll see you soon [Music]

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Length: 24min 9sec (1449 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 22 2018