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PET Contents and Exam Overview

Page 328 Paper Paper 1: Reading and Writing 1 hour 30 minutes Reading: 5 parts; 35 questions Writing: 3 parts; 7 questions All questions carry one mark, except Writing Part 2 (5 marks) and Writing Part 3 (15 marks) The Reading and Writing sections each account for 25% of the total marks for PET Task Description Reading Part 1: Understand the main message from short texts such as signs, emails, etc. Part 2: Read for specic information in order to match people to short texts Part 3: Scan a long factual text Part 4: Read a long text for detail, attitude, opinion, writer purpose, gist, inference and global meaning Part 5: Complete a factual or narrative text, requiring understanding of the vocabulary and grammar patterns Writing Part 1: Rephrase and reformulate information, using appropriate grammatical structures Part 2: Write a short message (3545 words) and communicate 3 content points Part 3: Choose either an informal letter or a story and write about 100 words. Candidates are assessed on control of language, organisation, spelling and punctuation Part 1: Multiple-choice Part 1: Identify key information in short (discrete) (7 Qs) monologues or dialogues. Select appropriate Part 2: Multiple choice image. (6 Qs) Part 2: Listen for specic information in a Part 3: Gap-ll (6 Qs) longer monologue Part 4: True/False (6 Qs) Part 3: Identify, understand and interpret information in a longer monologue Part 4: Listen for details, attitudes and opinions in a dialogue Part 1: Factual, personal questions about the Part 1: Interlocutor past, present and future asks the candidates Part 2: Using a visual stimulus, candidates questions in turn (23 discuss alternatives, make recommendations minutes) and negotiate agreement Part 2: Candidates Part 3: Candidates describe a colour interact in a simulated situation (23 minutes) photograph, using appropriate vocabulary, for about 1 minute Part 3: Extended Part 4: Candidates talk about opinions, likes/ individual turn (3 dislikes, preferences, experiences, habits, etc. minutes) Part 4: General conversation between candidates (3 minutes) Task Type Reading Part 1: 3-option multiple-choice cloze (5 Qs) Part 2: Matching (5 Qs) Part 3: True/False (10 Qs) Part 4: 4-option multiple choice (5 Qs) Part 5: 4-option multiple-choice cloze (10 Qs) Writing Part 1: Sentence transformations (5 Qs) Part 2: Short communicative message Part 3: Longer piece of continuous writing

2942 Paper 2: Listening 30 minutes (approx) 4 parts 25 questions All questions carry one mark 25% of the total marks 4348 Paper 3: Speaking 1012 minutes per pair of candidates 4 parts 25% of the total marks

Sample exam material has been reproduced from the PET for Schools Handbook for Teachers, with the kind permission of Cambridge ESOL www.CambridgeESOL.org/Resources/Teacher