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Units 11 & 12
Towards B2 First for Schools
1 In B2 First for Schools Reading
and Use of English Part 6,
candidates have to read a longer
text with six numbered spaces,
then decide which of the seven
sentences provided belongs in
each gap.
This part of the exam tests
whether candidates can follow
the narrative of a text, the
development of ideas and
understand how a well-structured
text is formed.
Encourage your students to do
the following when they approach
this task:
• Read the whole text to
understand the narrative.
• Look at each numbered
space and choose one of the
sentences to complete each
gap.
• After choosing a sentence,
check the other six options and
decide why they are wrong.
• Read the completed text again
to make sure it makes sense.
1 G 2 F 3 A 4 B 5 D 6 C
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T118 Towards B2 First for Schools | Units 11 & 12
TOWARDS B2 First for Schools
READING AND USE OF ENGLISH
Gapped text workbook page 115
1 You are going to read about someone travelling abroad for the first time. Six sentences
have been removed from the text. Choose from the sentences (A–G) the one that fits each
gap (1–6). There is one extra sentence that you do not need to use.
MY FIRST
MY FIRST
FLIGHT
eally enjoyed travelling very much. The idea of
I’ve never r
I’ve never really enjoyed travelling very much. The idea of 5 Before I knew it, my taxi had left me
leaving the comfort of my own bed to sleep somewhere at the airport. Somehow I made my way to
else has never appealed to me. And when you add in the check-in desk. I lifted my suitcase onto
things like the food and not being understood, the thought the conveyor belt and walked through airport
of leaving my hometown fills me with terror. I did go away security to the lounge. I have no idea how
on a school trip once, when I was eight, for two nights.
My mother tells me I quite enjoyed the experience. 1 I knew what to do. I guess that because
I’d seen it so many times in films, it was
There must be a reason why I can’t remember anything programmed into my mind.
positive about it.
So for 28 years I’d managed to lead a life that kept me The flight was only two hours. 6 I tried
to read a book, but I couldn’t. I tried listening
happily at home. A few nights in hotels for work had been to my MP3 player – I’d chosen some relaxing
the worst I’d had to go through. Then, one day, my boss music especially – but it sounded like it was
called me in. He shook my hand. He was smiling from one being played by an orchestra of three-year-
ear to the other. 2
‘Paul!’ he announced. ‘You’ve
olds. Every sound the plane made sent my
been promoted.’ I should have been happy, I suppose, imagination spinning out of control. Was that
but something in the back of my mind was telling me the sound of the wing falling off? Was that a
this wasn’t 100 percent good news. 3 ‘Of course, bird being sucked through an engine? Was
you’ll need extra training. I’ve booked you on a course at that the noise of wheels hitting the runway?
head office in Linz. Your flight’s on Monday.’
Yes, it was. We had landed.
I started to feel dizzy. I had to hold on to the table to stop Somehow we’d arrived. I wanted to grab my
myself from falling. My boss patted me on the back. fellow travellers and celebrate the fact that
‘Great news, eh?’ he smiled. Then he left the room. we were still alive, but they were all busy
So that was it. Just when my professional life had got better, getting their luggage from the overhead
the rest of my life was over. No one had ever survived an lockers. So I celebrated on my own.
aeroplane flight, had they? 4 I wasn’t so sure. I spent But then I remembered: unless I wanted to
the weekend making my final farewells as Monday morning spend the rest of my life in Austria, I still
got closer. had to fly back!
A What wasn’t right about this?
B My family and friends tried to assure me that of course they had.
C I thought that it was never going to end.
D And then the day I had been dreading arrived.
E Would I ever see my wife again?
F It wasn’t long before I found out why.
G That certainly isn’t what my memory tells me.
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