Day 17: gaps gaps gaps

Hi everyone!

For today, let's go back to the very beginning. Do you remember the first challenge, 16 days ago? It had four little tests on make/do. There is somethig about testing ourselves that appeals to our competitive nature.

So I thought I'd make use of that competitiveness to lure you into today's challenge. Would you like to push yourselves? What about one of the hardest tasks in the Proficiency exam?

For today's challenge:

- Go to this page and read the advice for Proficiency open cloze tests.

 - Test yourself on the five big areas that go into this exercise: pronouns, articles and determiners, conjunctions and linking phrases, prepositional phrases and phrasal verbs, and collocations. That is, do the five tests proposed on the page.

 - Share your results with us!


See you in the comments!

Comments

  1. EvelitaMarch 31, 2020 at 1:21 PM

    As for me, you were absolutely right with the competitiveness point! Hahaha. So here I am, just before my Peaky Blinders session.
    My results in the text were:
    1  6/8
    2nd -> 7/8
    3rd  8/8
    4th  4/8
    5th  5/8
    As you can tell, phrasal verbs activities were a hard challenge to me (I could have actually mentioned them as a point to treat when reviewing contents after Easter). I knew some of the collocations thanks to this course (thanks Bea, before knowing you I didn’t even know what was a collocation…)

    See you tomorrow!

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    1. Shall I compare thee...April 7, 2020 at 8:29 AM

      Hahaha, I knew I would be calling you out somehow, Evelia!

      I'm really glad to have introduced you to collocations. It feels like an honour, in a way! Thank you!

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  2. fdgcMarch 31, 2020 at 2:04 PM

    A really tough nut to crack! It´s crystal clear where my main weakness is. Despite all, I actually enjoyed this challenge a lot.

    Pronouns: 6/8
    Articles and Determiners: 5/8
    Conjunctions and linking Words/Phrases: 7/8
    Phrasal Verbs and Prepositional Phrases: 3/8
    Collocations: 6/8

    Thank you very much.

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    1. Shall I compare thee...April 7, 2020 at 8:31 AM

      So clear, Daniel! It's great when we find out where to go to improve! Sharp focus can be everything!

      I'm really happy you enjoyed this challenge, you seem to love testing yourself, just like Evelia!

      Thank you!

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