WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:08.550 OK so let's go through another practice test and we're going this one comes from the Cambridge official 00:08.580 --> 00:16.770 a practice test and this is Testim rate reading passage one make this this actually is probably one 00:16.770 --> 00:20.130 of my favorite Cambridge books to practice from. 00:20.130 --> 00:28.560 So I encourage you to go out and get it and use it because as a great practice test it and I think they're 00:28.560 --> 00:31.570 great practice really really great practice. 00:31.800 --> 00:32.270 It's over. 00:32.280 --> 00:34.800 This is this is coming from test eight. 00:34.860 --> 00:42.360 So if you have it with you make sure that you have it you can do it along with us so you can take a 00:42.360 --> 00:49.710 look at our strategy and tactics so we're still looking at Fill in the blank questions and this is our 00:49.710 --> 00:52.940 third example of the fill in the blank question. 00:53.160 --> 00:54.890 So have a look at it. 01:04.010 --> 01:04.820 This is 01:07.610 --> 01:10.400 almost too big. 01:10.790 --> 01:11.760 Better. 01:11.770 --> 01:12.080 All right. 01:12.080 --> 01:20.210 So this is the Phoenicians and almost forgotten people I know about the Phoenicians because I love history 01:21.410 --> 01:26.000 but you know if you if you don't this is that's what the title this is. 01:26.240 --> 01:32.220 So sometimes you find the reading passages are interesting to read sometimes you don't. 01:32.840 --> 01:38.870 But that doesn't matter because it's really not about your background knowledge it's about your understanding 01:38.870 --> 01:42.160 of strategy tactics and English. 01:42.460 --> 01:47.570 That's what their testing strategy knowing you having good strategy when you're sending English if you 01:47.570 --> 01:53.120 have those two things then you can actually do pretty good on the exam. 01:53.120 --> 01:59.210 So let's keep going and let's move forward in terms of our strategy and tactics. 01:59.210 --> 01:59.750 OK. 02:03.900 --> 02:11.490 So here we have eight while we have eight eight questions that we're doing. 02:11.490 --> 02:17.760 So like I said first thing we want to do with it and the other examples here is look and see which ones 02:17.760 --> 02:19.280 are going to be the easiest to do. 02:19.280 --> 02:26.940 First some of these have some really great words well a lot of you just got a lot of judges are going 02:26.940 --> 02:28.530 to be easy to do. 02:28.530 --> 02:41.070 Number two I would probably start with number two because because it has the words 50 ships and Egypt 02:41.910 --> 02:46.270 number three is also easy to find because of the word king of Israel and Phoenicia 02:51.200 --> 02:58.640 number seven is probably easy to find because of the word carved and the word ceder. 02:58.820 --> 03:05.290 So I would probably start with two three and seven. 03:05.690 --> 03:12.320 That's what I would probably start with two three and seven if I come across the keywords are four five 03:12.320 --> 03:14.750 and six and I recognize them quickly. 03:14.810 --> 03:16.460 I could do those also. 03:16.880 --> 03:19.850 But I think if you're talking about which ones are the easiest to find. 03:19.850 --> 03:22.880 First it will be two three and seven. 03:23.310 --> 03:29.720 Now if you know what number three is and you know we're number seven is that you know numbers four five 03:29.720 --> 03:31.440 and six are in the middle. 03:31.440 --> 03:36.650 You know number you know number one will be found for number two the number eight will come after number 03:36.650 --> 03:37.640 seven. 03:37.640 --> 03:41.360 That's the beauty of having a fill in the blank question. 03:41.360 --> 03:42.590 That's the beauty of it. 03:42.770 --> 03:44.650 Because the question goes in order. 03:44.870 --> 03:50.900 And when you know the question is going order is much much easier for you to be able to handle and manage 03:51.690 --> 03:55.910 your years you know getting them right efficiently. 03:55.910 --> 04:05.030 So I going to start with number two first and then we're going to move on from there and find number 04:05.420 --> 04:10.150 five number three and then find Number seven also. 04:10.510 --> 04:10.960 OK. 04:11.000 --> 04:22.420 So first I'm looking for 50 ships and Egypt and I know for number two when I find my sentence looking 04:22.420 --> 04:33.700 for a person or a person or person in a profession like teacher because it says the word who is an ancient 04:33.700 --> 04:38.750 story a blank from Egypt who so we're talking about a person for number two. 04:38.750 --> 04:46.150 So what if I'm in right center I'm looking for a person or a can be a person or we're like a lawyer. 04:46.150 --> 04:49.620 You know as a person it could be a word that describes a person also. 04:49.630 --> 04:50.760 So take a look. 04:56.680 --> 04:57.830 Some scary. 04:58.260 --> 05:02.170 I mean this ruling passage we have a broken up side by side. 05:03.260 --> 05:06.700 Sometimes it's like that sometimes it's not. 05:08.990 --> 05:10.580 Look for this one is like that. 05:10.600 --> 05:13.130 And that's the way it is. 05:13.150 --> 05:17.360 All right so here's the word 50 years of work. 05:17.380 --> 05:22.500 Here's of these ships and in the previous sentence we have the word Egypt. 05:22.690 --> 05:26.890 So our first question is coming from a combination of these two sentences. 05:26.890 --> 05:32.260 Remember I told you previously what they do sometimes is they'll take two sentences from or from the 05:32.260 --> 05:37.510 reading passage and when they make the question they'll combine information from both of those sentences 05:37.510 --> 05:39.340 into one sentence. 05:39.340 --> 05:44.030 So that's our situation that we have here. 05:44.270 --> 05:44.950 Right. 05:44.950 --> 05:53.500 So it says one of the characters there's work at all if Phoenician merchant living in Tadas in Egypt 05:54.100 --> 05:55.130 Egypt now. 05:55.150 --> 06:03.070 Now Delta has many of as many as 50 ships carry out his business flying back and forth between the Nile 06:03.130 --> 06:05.860 and the Venetian port of Sidon. 06:06.320 --> 06:13.910 So we're looking for a word of a person we're looking for a person here. 06:13.930 --> 06:24.470 So our question again says in an Asian story a blank from Phoenicia who lived in Egypt over 50 ships. 06:24.550 --> 06:27.970 So we can't wait see it says a. 06:28.340 --> 06:31.380 Right so we can't use a person's name here. 06:31.450 --> 06:36.300 You can't say like a Keino which as you know by now is my name. 06:36.370 --> 06:40.260 You can't say a Kino from Phoenicia or Jard from Phoenicia. 06:40.270 --> 06:40.610 No. 06:40.630 --> 06:48.420 So here we look when we look back when we look back at the sentence or the two sentences together one 06:48.700 --> 06:52.640 answer is going to be merchant merchant. 06:52.710 --> 06:59.590 The merchant describes a person and a merchant and find the merchant can follow the word can follow 06:59.590 --> 07:01.390 the Oracle a. 07:02.080 --> 07:10.930 All right so the answer is merchant in an ancient story a merchant prophet Nisha who lived in Egypt 07:10.990 --> 07:12.680 on fifty ships. 07:12.680 --> 07:18.550 So in an ancient story a merchant from Phoenicia who lived in Egypt one of the ships answerers merchant 07:19.540 --> 07:27.610 next will look for a king of Israel and will look for something he built using supplies from Phoenicia 07:28.080 --> 07:34.240 King or Israel and will be connected to something he built something he built 07:38.740 --> 07:40.240 called Boom. 07:40.250 --> 07:45.580 There he is king of Israel right there king of Israel. 07:59.370 --> 07:59.910 So 08:06.630 --> 08:13.020 here we're going to start here Hiram the king of the Phoenician city of Tyr was an ally and business 08:13.020 --> 08:16.980 partner of Solomon king of Israel for Solomon. 08:16.980 --> 08:21.810 So we're still talking about this is our sentence will be speaking of Israel. 08:21.810 --> 08:28.060 But our answer is not coming from this sentence because in this sentence we don't have the word built. 08:28.080 --> 08:33.300 We don't have something that we don't have the war built or we don't have an example of something that 08:33.300 --> 08:34.410 was built. 08:34.420 --> 08:35.320 All right. 08:35.540 --> 08:39.550 Well when we look at this sit ins with the king of Israel we don't have it yet. 08:39.600 --> 08:45.210 So for Solomon solved this is still a good sentence because the word Solomon is synonym for king of 08:45.210 --> 08:50.730 Israel for Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem. 08:51.160 --> 08:54.270 Iran provided craftsmen with particular skills. 08:54.330 --> 08:58.770 So what was built was a temple. 08:58.800 --> 09:00.380 Right that's our answer right there. 09:00.390 --> 09:00.840 Temple 09:05.280 --> 09:10.610 the king of Israel built a temple using supplies from Phoenicia. 09:10.610 --> 09:19.690 We know that's our answer because again it says Chris Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem Jerusalem Hiram 09:19.700 --> 09:24.590 provided craftsman with particular skills that were needed for this major construction project. 09:24.590 --> 09:31.940 He also spoke I so her answer here is Temple Solomon's temple this is what was built. 09:31.940 --> 09:36.350 This is what was built Solomon's Temple. 09:36.380 --> 09:39.860 Now for our next one we're looking for Cedar carved 09:48.560 --> 09:53.900 high hears the words Ceder and hears the word carved. 09:54.090 --> 09:54.830 All right. 09:55.080 --> 09:56.060 So I will look at those. 09:56.070 --> 10:01.620 I will look at these two sentences to get number seven seater and carved. 10:02.230 --> 10:05.110 All right so we look at number seven. 10:06.040 --> 10:09.730 The Phoenicians carved blank as well as Cedar. 10:10.020 --> 10:14.030 So we're looking we're looking for something that was carved. 10:14.280 --> 10:19.530 We're looking for something that was carved Cedar is one thing but we're looking for another object 10:19.530 --> 10:21.050 that was carved. 10:21.240 --> 10:24.770 It has to be a material that was carved. 10:25.070 --> 10:26.170 OK. 10:31.400 --> 10:38.030 The cedar wall was not only exported as top quality timber for architecture and shipbuilding it was 10:38.030 --> 10:42.190 also carved by the Phoenicians So there's about the cedar. 10:42.680 --> 10:49.100 And that same skill was a plot that was adapted to even more precious work in ivory. 10:49.100 --> 10:54.300 So there's other material ivory hides Cedar is. 10:54.410 --> 10:55.940 It is referring to cedar. 10:56.160 --> 11:01.980 So Cedar's one material that was carved in the other material that was carved is ivory. 11:02.120 --> 11:11.740 So I answer is our answer for number seven would be ivory is our answer for number 7 right now. 11:11.900 --> 11:17.960 Now we know what four five and six are in between we know four or five and six or in between numbers 11:17.960 --> 11:19.770 three and three and seven. 11:20.030 --> 11:23.320 So we know they're there within that short space. 11:23.330 --> 11:28.300 And those are going to be fairly easy to find. 11:28.310 --> 11:29.880 All right. 11:30.500 --> 11:33.980 So number four Phoenicia supply Solomon with skilled 11:36.390 --> 11:44.680 Phoenicia supplied Solomon with skills so we we know that it has to come in this area right here. 11:44.750 --> 11:46.340 News four five and six 11:50.930 --> 11:51.500 high. 11:51.540 --> 11:57.230 So high room provided craftsman with particular skills. 11:57.820 --> 11:58.380 There's our. 11:58.390 --> 12:00.580 There's our answer for number four right there. 12:00.780 --> 12:09.250 Hiram provided craftsman with particular skills so skilled craftsman craftsmen for those of you don't 12:09.250 --> 12:19.000 know ever who are vocabulary challenged craftsmen is a it's almost like a carpenter or the or the old 12:19.090 --> 12:23.920 the old name for like an engineer so money built things. 12:23.920 --> 12:24.250 All right. 12:24.250 --> 12:32.620 So the answer for number four would be craftsman because it says skilled skilled craftsman. 12:32.620 --> 12:40.150 Number five the main material that Phoenicia said to Israel was key words in number five main material 12:40.530 --> 12:42.000 definitions into Israel. 12:42.010 --> 12:44.530 What was the main material. 12:46.520 --> 12:48.650 Again we know our answer is they have to come in here 12:51.590 --> 12:52.530 all right. 12:52.530 --> 12:57.630 He also has applied materials particularly 10 Birr. 12:58.700 --> 13:06.630 I particularly tymber including Ceder from the forest of Lebanon particularly particularly as I said 13:06.620 --> 13:08.770 in memoirs our answer is tymber 13:11.410 --> 13:16.220 her answer is tymber the main material What is this particularly. 13:16.430 --> 13:17.050 Right. 13:17.150 --> 13:22.970 That's like saying like mainly particularly especially just like saying especially rice like saying 13:22.970 --> 13:29.060 especially especially this sorry i for number 5 is tymber. 13:29.570 --> 13:35.860 Number six the kings of Phoenicia in Israel formed a business blank in order to carry out trade. 13:35.870 --> 13:37.270 Key word here. 13:37.610 --> 13:41.530 Kings of Phoenicia Israel and formed a business. 13:41.530 --> 13:41.960 Blake. 13:41.960 --> 13:45.140 All right our answer is going to connect to business has to 13:54.270 --> 13:59.050 here we go to kings the Kings. 13:59.050 --> 14:06.070 That's our key word sentence there because the sentence starts about starts off talking about the kings 14:06.070 --> 14:07.520 of Phoenician Israel. 14:07.530 --> 14:10.230 Here is the two kings OK. 14:10.440 --> 14:14.010 And there is no other sentence that talks about the two kings. 14:14.170 --> 14:17.320 So the two kings went into a trade partnership. 14:17.440 --> 14:24.290 Again they love Sydenham language with Isle's exams so trade is a synonym for business. 14:24.340 --> 14:25.270 So the answer is. 14:25.270 --> 14:30.340 Partnership. 14:30.340 --> 14:41.310 Partnership is the answer for answer for number six business partnership trade partnership. 14:41.330 --> 14:44.460 Right now we can find number one and number eight. 14:44.470 --> 14:49.390 Number one is connected to the word skill Phoenician skill at blank. 14:49.390 --> 14:50.970 Help them to trade. 14:51.430 --> 14:53.580 We know number one has to come before number two. 14:53.590 --> 14:54.930 So it's going to be easy to find 15:09.200 --> 15:10.660 is this sentence right here. 15:10.670 --> 15:17.520 This starts with the war both because the word ability is the same as the word skill. 15:17.540 --> 15:23.170 So I know this is the sentence the word ability is the same as the word skill. 15:23.170 --> 15:27.870 All right the previous sentences don't have a synonym for the word skill. 15:27.890 --> 15:34.320 Both of these activities were based on seafaring and ability of the Phoenicians. 15:34.460 --> 15:47.280 So the Phoenicians had the skill of seafaring seafaring seafaring because ability is the same skill. 15:47.360 --> 15:57.340 A certain sense the Venetian skill at seafaring the Phoenicians ability at seafaring. 15:57.500 --> 16:04.480 So an answer that we would put on the blank line there would be seafaring seafaring. 16:05.890 --> 16:13.460 At number eight the Phoenicians also earned a blank for shipping goods they also earned a whatever goes 16:13.460 --> 16:18.530 on that blank line for shipping goods what do they earn for shipping goods. 16:18.530 --> 16:20.610 Key words here shipping goods. 16:20.690 --> 16:24.650 So whatever our answer here is that connect the shipping goods 16:28.740 --> 16:33.220 we know has to come after number 7 which is right here with the word carved in ivory. 16:33.720 --> 16:39.760 So we're looking for something dealing with shipping goods. 16:39.780 --> 16:48.810 Up up up up up up up up up up there is goods. 16:48.930 --> 16:57.190 They took a commission on a much greater range of precious goods than they transported elsewhere. 16:57.380 --> 17:09.060 The answer is commission commission because I question says the Phoenicians also earned a blank for 17:09.060 --> 17:10.440 shipping goods. 17:10.440 --> 17:12.660 Again it's all about sending them language. 17:12.690 --> 17:15.890 They took a commission for shipping goods. 17:15.960 --> 17:25.770 They earned a commission for shipping goods high so shipping and so earned and took turns using a synonym 17:25.800 --> 17:31.040 language and our correct answer would be Commission. 17:31.350 --> 17:39.030 OK so thanks a lot and I hope you hope you enjoyed these examples on how to do the fill in the blank 17:39.030 --> 17:44.620 question and now you're clear on how to do the fill in the blank question. 17:44.640 --> 17:46.830 All right so I'll talk to you soon. 17:46.830 --> 17:50.830 And we're about to now move on to the short answer questions yet. 17:50.850 --> 17:53.030 Next so I can teach you how to do them. 17:53.040 --> 17:53.530 Take care.