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This lesson explains how to answer the part. It is not a timed practice set. A short radio report. All five questions are sentence completions on one screen.
Five completions on one screen. Underline the slot: a time, a place, a who, a why, a next step.
Clock times, dates, street names, how many routes, which neighbourhoods. Pair each number with its noun.
“Overnight only,” “except emergency vehicles,” “until Tuesday 8 am”, the exception is usually the answer.
You can move among the five questions. Do the number items first; gist items second.
Prompt
A morning radio report on an overnight bridge closure. Sample completion: Overnight closures run from Friday 10 pm until ______.
Model
Newsreader: City engineering will close the Knight Street Bridge to most traffic this Friday from 10 pm until Saturday at 6 am for joint repairs. Newsreader: A single northbound lane stays open for emergency vehicles and night buses. Private cars must use the Fraser Street detour, which adds about 12 minutes. Newsreader: Fourteen bus routes that normally cross Knight will shift to Fraser for that window only. Daytime service on Saturday is expected to return to the usual pattern. Newsreader: The same crew will return next month for a second night if the joints need a second pour. That date has not been set. Newsreader: Drivers can check the city's outage map after 4 pm on Friday for the live lane status. Question: Overnight closures run from Friday 10 pm until ______. Answer: Saturday 6 am.
Why it works
Hearing Friday and 6 am in the same report and gluing them together.
Choosing a too-extreme completion (“all weekend,” “every night this month”).
Ignoring the stems on screen and listening as if this were a sequential part.