Learner separates the noun and adjective forms of the field words that Band 5 candidates interchange most, and applies the slot test under time pressure.
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Eight phrases. Tick the ones that look correct, then check.
One test, eight pairs — and it is Chapter 1 applied to the words that matter most.
Is there a noun straight after the gap?
Yes → you need the adjective.
No → you need the noun.
the ___ situation — situation is a noun, so: economic situation.
the ___ is growing — nothing follows, so: the economy is growing.
That is it. One question, and it resolves every pair in this sprint.
This is Chapter 1's slot idea again, applied to the eight fields that appear in almost every Task 2 question — which is why it is worth doing separately.
Four pairs, each showing the field itself beside something it describes.
The top row is the field itself. The row beneath is one thing the field describes.
Sixteen phrases. Which ones put the right form in the slot?
Sort each item into the correct category
Three gaps. Look at what comes next, then choose the form.
Chain 1
The sentence: The government has promised more ___ support for small businesses.
The pair: finance / financial
Is there a noun after the gap?
So the answer is:
Chain 2
The sentence: The ___ has recovered faster than expected.
The pair: economy / economic
Is there a noun after the gap?
So the answer is:
Chain 3
The sentence: The town is full of ___ buildings dating from the fifteenth century.
The pair: history / historical
Is there a noun after the gap?
So the answer is:
A Task 2 paragraph with eight slots. Half want the field, half want the description.
Rural areas face a particular set of problems. (agriculture / agricultural) land is being sold for housing, and the (industry / industrial) that once employed most of the village closed twenty years ago.
The result is that the local (economy / economic) now depends almost entirely on tourism. That brings money in during the summer, but it also means young people leave, because there is no (finance / financial) reason to stay.
Several (politics / political) parties have promised investment, and there has been some (science / scientific) work on how to make small farms profitable again. Neither has changed much on the ground.
What the area does have is its (nature / natural) setting and a number of (history / historical) buildings, and those may prove more valuable in the long run than anything that has been promised.