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Hi, I'm Chris Jordan
and in the video today, we're going to come back to the BULATS gapped sentence question
that focuses mainly on vocabulary.
In fact, in the next TWO videos, we're going to be looking at a very key vocabulary concept.
In the previous vocabulary question videos, the questions we looked were like this.
In particular, we focused on questions where getting the right answer
depends on paying careful attention to a preposition or similar word.
In this question, only 'out' has the right meaning –
so, the other answers would be considered incorrect English.
In the next two videos though,
we're going to look at a very different type of question in this section of the exam.
In this example here,
we can use the same test technique we used in the previous videos.
First, read the sentence and try to work out what the sentence seems to mean.
What kind of word is missing? Well, here, it's a verb.
Does the missing word seem to have a strong relationship with any other word in the sentence?
Finding this connection can be really important for working out what the correct answer is.
Here, we should notice the word 'price' – which is the grammatical subject of the sentence –
seems to have a big influence on the gap.
Based on our experience of reading and listening to English,
and perhaps we've seen very similar sentences with these words,
we might even be able to think of a possible answer before we look at the options.
So, 'the price X local sales tax', is there a word that comes to mind?
The next thing to do is to look at the options.
Is the word you thought of in the list?
If not, does one of the words seem familiar in this situation?
If you're not sure, start with A.
'the price keeps local sales tax?
That doesn't sound right, does it?
'the price contains local sales tax'?
That's better in terms of meaning,
but we don't really say 'the price contains' in English.
Let's try C: 'the price includes local sales tax'?
Well the meaning is right, and 'the price includes' is a natural way to express this idea in English.
So, it's looking good,
but we should still check D to be sure.
'the price involves' … that's not how we would express this idea in English.
And this means C 'the price includes local sales tax'
is the BEST answer.
This might seem a little different to the examples we looked at in the previous videos where,
because of the 'grammar words'
– especially the prepositions we looked at like 'by', 'with', 'to' or 'for' –
only one answer is good, and the others are not possible.
So, how do we know what the 'best' answer is, if the grammar can't help us?
Let's take a moment to look at this in a little more detail.
To really understand how to work out the best answer for these questions,
we need to understand something called 'collocation'.
An easier way to explain collocation is to think of words having friends.
Some words have close friends and they like to be together
- we often see them working together to make certain meanings.
These are collocations.
However, other words are not friends and they don't like to be together.
Let's look at a very simple example.
For the word 'rain', two very close 'friends' or 'collocations' are 'heavy' and 'light'.
So, we have heavy and light rain.
In other languages though
the words that are 'friends' for 'rain' may be quite different, such as in Mandarin Chinese
where the words for 'big' and 'small' are friends for 'rain',
but the words for 'heavy' and 'light' are not.
So, you can have 'big rain and small rain'
- something that would not be considered natural in English.
In fact, it would sound quite 'weird'.
To be good at a language, we need to know what words mean AND how they're used with other words.
And in this question,
we're asked to show our understanding of how English normally expresses this idea of 'a lot of rain'.
Someone with an A2 level of English
is likely to have seen these friends together enough to know that 'heavy' is by far the best friend for rain.
We can say they're 'close collocations', which is basically the grammatical way of saying
they're best friends - or 'BFFs'.
So, in this case, the BEST answer is B.
Let's just finish with two more quick examples.
This is a lower-level question
and if we read it quickly, we can see that it's about making a time for the sports event.
So, which of these words is commonly used with 'date' for this meaning.
Well the common friend you've probably seen several times is 'set a date'.
And finally, we can work out from reading this sentence
that the company was able to 'get the funding for the factory'.
Which word is often used with 'funding' with this meaning?
Now, in English you can ' get funding' but in more formal English,
a common friend for 'funding' is 'secure'
so 'secure funding for something.'
To sum up what we've talked about so far, to work out the BEST answer in the BULATS vocabulary question,
you often need to find the 'best friend'
or 'close collocation' of the word with a special connection to the gap.
This is because in real life,
part of understanding a language is knowing which words we should use together.
We hope this video has been useful
and that you feel you understand collocation and this kind word relationship a little better.
Remember, if you are looking for help with BULATS or your Workplace English in general,
do check out our other videos in this series. Thank you for watching and good luck.
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