Part one of the B2 First Use of English paper! Oh
wow Toby! I didn't even know there was a part one! I know! Nor did I but then I checked and yes there
is a part one! Oh no! But don't worry because I'm going to tell you all about it! My name is Toby,
this is SMASH English and here is everything you need to know about part one of the use of
english paper for the B2 First Cambridge exam! In part one of the B2 First Use of English paper
you will be given a text but there will be eight spaces! Oh no Toby! I'm scared of spaces! Me too.
Me too. But don't worry because you will also be given four words for each space and it is your
job to decide which word goes best in each space. Wow Toby! That's exciting! Yes it is very exciting
but also very very hard. Why? Because the words are often very, very similar. A dictionary
or google translate won't help you here. Instead you need to think about subtle differences
in meaning: the grammatical form, collocations or perhaps phrasal verbs. Oh yes! We love phrasal
verbs! So why don't we practice together as a team? Hey hey hey! Mr Toby!? Yes... Are we
like doing part one of the use of english paper? Yes. Oh well like, I've prepared the text that
we can use! You have? Yeah so can we like, can we use it? Like please! Super
pretty please with a cherry on top! Okay yeah whatever. oh my god! i'm so excited,
Toby I won't let you down! This is gonna be great! So here is the text and here are the possible
answers for each space. Um Toby can I read now? Yep okay. Go ahead. Okay um Johnny! Don't go! I
muttered under my breath. That was the _____ he left me. He turned away, umbrella in hand as
the rain gushed onto the soaked London streets. It was dark but not dark enough to obscure
the tears dripping down my beautiful cheeks. I felt such pain that _____ could have made me
feel better. _____ all the arguments, pain and betrayal I'd _____ I still could not accept
that it was over. Relationships are strange. When you're in one you wish you weren't but when
they're over you _____ on every little detail that may have _____ to their end. This time was no
different. Was it my hair? Or maybe my beard? No Monica that's impossible! I am beautiful or at
least that is what I _____ myself. We _____ so much time searching for that _____ someone. Is it
possible that we forget who we are in the process? I must remember I am Monica. I
am strong, independent and free. Don't go! I muttered under my breath. That was the
_____ he left me. Let's first focus on the meaning here. We are not talking about a physical space
so place is impossible because we don't know where this event happened yet so we can eliminate place.
It doesn't make sense and it is not the emphasis of the sentence. Now we have moment, time and
case. "That was the case he left me" doesn't make any sense at all so we can eliminate that too.
This leaves us with moment and time. Time usually refers to a broad period of time whereas moment
refers to a shorter period of time. For example: I had a great time watching that film. That
describes the entire experience of watching the film. Whereas: that was a fantastic moment in
the film, wasn't it? Well that refers to a short period of time within the film. Maybe a joke or
an action scene or when the cat eats the snail.... Yes so here are we referring to a long period
of time or are we referring to a short moment? Well... a moment. So that was the
moment he left me moment. Moment. I felt such pain that _____ could have made me
feel better. So what is the meaning? I'm saying like I'm so so sad and it's completely impossible
to change. Okay so something means that it is possible to change that so something is wrong.
It doesn't make sense in this context so we can eliminate something. On the other hand none is too
ambiguous. What does none refer to? None of what? Well we don't know and we have no context within
the text to explain what none could refer to and this means that we can eliminate none as well.
So finally we are left with anything and nothing. Anything would mean that something could
potentially make Monica feel better and it doesn't matter what that something
is. It could be any something. It could be anything and that's not what we're trying
to express here so the answer is nothing. Nothing. Please remember that in English we
do not use double negatives because that is mathematically wrong. Science says so. This means
that when we use nothing in a positive sentence it is a negative: I have nothing oh no! That
means I don't have anything. On the other hand: I don't have nothing. Means I have something
and I'm very very happy about it. Yes! Because I don't have nothing, I have you! You! Watching this
video now! Brilliant! I'm so so lucky and so are you. You don't have nothing either because
you have me and we have each other. _____ all the arguments pain and betrayal I'd ______
I still could not accept that it was over. Number three is very very easy that means
that we can relax because only one answer fits with the grammar and this makes our lives
much much easier if we know the grammar and if we don't know the grammar, well, that's
embarrassing. Study more grammar! Use this playlist here to learn all about the B2 First
grammar that you need to know to pass the exam right? Yes! Yeah anyway, though, although and even
though all follow the same grammatical rule. If you are beginning a sentence with though, although
or even though they must be followed by a subject. Yes! Followed by a subject! But is "all the
arguments" a subject? No Toby! It's not it's an object! Exactly! It's an object and we cannot use
an object after although, even though or though which means our answer must be despite.
Despite is the answer.... and I'm a dancer... Despite all the arguments pain and betrayal I'd
_____ I still could not accept that it was over. And now number four is the opposite. For number
four there is no grammar instead we need to focus purely on the meaning. We have four phrasal
verbs and we know that the objects of these phrasal verbs are "arguments, pain and betrayal"
and we know that despite these objects Monica still could not accept that the relationship was
over. So then, let's focus on the meaning of these phrasal verbs. Made up of means constituted by and
we normally use this in the passive. For example: my body is made up of blood organs and a very
very big brain. God my brain is so so big! So in this context made up of makes absolutely
zero sense because we're not talking about the constitution of something, are we? No! No we're
not. Oh and done up of doesn't even exist so we can eliminate that one as well! So made up
of and done up of we have eliminated because they cannot be right. Made up of makes no sense.
Done up of doesn't exist and this just leaves us with two possible answers, so it's 50/50. Just
take a guess! No! Don't take a guess, don't take a guess. We can do it together as a team like I
said before because we're best friends. Please, please, please be my friend. So we are left with
come up with and put up with. What do these mean? The phrasal verb to come up with means to invent
an idea. So if Monica came up with the arguments, pain and the betrayal then that means that
she invented them in her head. And that is definitely not true Toby because it was also
real! Okay so through a process of elimination that leaves us with put up with. And maybe you
don't even know what that means but it doesn't matter! We've eliminated all the others so
we'll go with put up with! But by the way, put up with means to tolerate. If you put up with
something you tolerate it. Like you're putting up with me right now! You're tolerating me just
because you want my knowledge! Isn't that great? That's all I am to you... that's all I am to
you... God. And of course I have videos about all the phrasal verbs that you need to know for the
B2 First Cambridge exam! Yes, yes, yes I do! Click this playlist here and you will learn them all! Be
very very happy! Leave a comment saying "wow Toby! Thank you so so much!" I'll feel happy and then
you've made some happiness in the world and that's very very rare especially in my life. I spend most
of my days alone crying. Relationships are strange when you are in one you wish you weren't but when
they're over you _____ on every little detail that may have _____ to their end. This is very very
easy thanks to the preposition on. So if you see a preposition after your blank space and think "well
what word here can go with the preposition?". That will help you! Yes! It'll be very very
helpful! Firstly we cannot imagine on something. Instead we can imagine plus gerund or imagine
plus object. For example can you imagine being a dog? Can you imagine life before SMASH English?
Yes to the first, no to the second obviously... Also you cannot wonder on. No, no, no. You can
wonder about something or you can wonder why something is, where something is, who something
is, whose something is, when something is or what something is but not on. No. Not on. And again we
cannot consider on. No. Instead we can consider plus gerund. For example: I considered becoming a
dancer but then I realized that I couldn't dance so I decided to become a teacher because there was
nothing else I could do in the world. And now look at me, look at me, look at me. Please someone
look at me. This leaves us with one option: focus. We focus on something. We don't wonder
on something, we don't imagine on something and we don't consider on something. We
focus on something and so the answer is focus. When they're over you focus on every
little detail that may have _____ to their end. This is similar. Again we have a preposition and
the preposition is to. We don't say resulted to instead we say resulted in. We don't say
finished to instead we use a preposition depending on the time that we are talking
about. For example: the exam will finish in five minutes. The party will finish at two
o'clock in the morning. Past my bedtime, am I right? I finished that cake around four minutes
and 35 seconds ago but who's counting? Not me. Lasted does not make sense here. We use
last to talk about the duration of something with or without the preposition for. Toby, I'm
so bored this video is lasting for ages. Or you could say the journey lasts 30 minutes. And so
this leaves us with the word led. Yeah. Led to means resulted in. Finished. I am beautiful
or at least that's what I _____ myself. Who is the speaker talking to? Well the speaker
is talking to the speaker and that's why we have the reflexive pronoun myself. If we want to use
said plus the person or object the speaker is speaking to then we need to use the preposition
to and we don't have that preposition here so the answer cannot be said. And this same rule applies
to mentioned and remarked. That is what I said to myself. That is what I mentioned to myself. That
is what I remarked to myself. But here we don't have the preposition to and so that leaves us
with only one possible answer and that is told. After the verb to tell we always need an object
like: I tell the truth or I tell a lie or an object pronoun. Here we have the reflexive pronoun
because Monica is talking to herself and so: at least that's what I told my self. Yes! We ____
so much time searching for that _____ someone. Let us talk about the collocations. Use does
not collocate with time in this way. In fact the only time that use collocates with time
is as a noun. That is not a good use of time. However here use is a verb and so
no, no, no. We don't want it. No. No. Next, if we HAE time we are talking about the time
that is available to us. For example: I have five minutes to relax before my swimming race against
my pet jellyfish. We are not talking about time in that sense here so we can eliminate have as
well. And this leaves us with spend and take. We use take with time to talk about the duration of
time required to complete an action. For example learning English takes time or it took me a
lot of time to complete my drawing of Toby's face. Yeah. We have WE here and WE is a subject.
When take collocates with time after a subject we usually need an infinitive of purpose and that
sounds confusing but let me give you an example. Toby (the subject) didn't take a long time (take
collocated with time) to explain this grammar point (the infinitive purpose). There we go.
I've explained it in less than 10 seconds! Genius! Genius! Wow! So in this context that
would give us we take so much time to search but that doesn't really make much sense because
we'd talk about "we take so much time to find" not "we take so much time to search" but in any
case we haven't got to plus infinitive we have the gerund "searching". So take is impossible.
And this leaves us with spend. Spend. We spend so much time searching. Yes! Yes we do! How much time
did you spend searching for this video? Probably many many hours but now you've found it! Lucky
you! Leave a comment! Subscribe! Like the video! We spend so much time searching for that
_____ someone. I'm very very sorry but all of these words mean something very very
similar and if you don't know the collocation you will be unable to answer it. Or will
you!?!?! If you are in a situation like this where you have absolutely no idea, focus on what
sounds better. Important someone. Elite someone. That sounds terrible. Exclusive someone.
That's better I guess. Special someone... Special someone! This is alliteration.
Alliteration is where the first letter of two or more adjacent words is the same and
it creates a nice sound. Special someone. Terrific Toby. Sexy SMASH English. But if you are
in doubt and you need to choose an adjective or a noun to form a compound noun and you have
absolutely no idea what you are doing then why not see if you can find some alliteration?
Because if it sounds good it's probably right. Right? Nothing that sounds good is ever
wrong... probably... I think... Maybe... Yeah that's terrible advice. Sorry. And with
that we are finished! Now you know everything you need to know about doing part one of the use
of english paper for the B2 First Cambridge exam! If you liked the video don't forget to SMASH that
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