PET PRACTICE


As you know, you will take the Cambridge PET (Preliminary English Test) exam some time after the end of the English 2 course.


The PET has three sections:



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Reading and Writing (1 hour 30 minutes) 50%
Shows you can read and understand the main points from signs, journals, newspapers and magazines, and can use vocabulary and structure correctly.


Listening (30 minutes) 25%
Requires you to be able to follow and understand a range of spoken materials including announcements and discussions about everyday life.


Speaking (10–12 minutes per pair of candidates) 25%
Demonstrates your spoken English as you participate in conversation, asking/answering questions, and talking freely, for example, about your likes and dislikes. 
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If you want to pass the PET, It is very important that you continue practising the grammar and vocabulary we learnt in class.


However, you also need to do some specific practice with PET questions, so that you will be familiar with the question format when you take the test. 


Below are some useful websites where you can find more information and practice for the PET. Click on the links to go directly to the correct section of each website. 


http://www.examenglish.com - This is a very good free practice site for the listening, writing and reading sections. Click on the exercises on the right of the page to practise the different parts of the exam. 


http://writefix.com - Another free site where you can practice speaking: it explains the different sections of the speaking exam and gives you examples and useful phrases for each section.


http://www.members.tripod.com/normainnes/PET%20mats/pet_materials.htm - good for writing practice, particularly the sentence transformation section. 


http://www.cambridgeesol.org - The official site for the PET exam, which gives you some information about the exam and the different sections.