1 00:00:00,780 --> 00:00:05,730 Good morning, students, or a good afternoon or good evening, whichever part of the world you're in 2 00:00:05,730 --> 00:00:07,440 right now in taking this lecture. 3 00:00:08,190 --> 00:00:12,900 In this video, we're going to be going through a reading passage. 4 00:00:12,930 --> 00:00:15,180 It's in the general reading context. 5 00:00:15,450 --> 00:00:18,330 And we're going to be looking at a true, false, none giving question. 6 00:00:19,380 --> 00:00:24,840 The true false not giving question gives a lot of students problems because they don't really understand 7 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,720 what does it mean between true, false and not given? 8 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:32,580 You know, you think you think looking at the words on their face is pretty evident. 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:33,840 But. 10 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:42,100 In the general in the there is a general reading section in this course and we go over the true false 11 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:44,680 not given question in several lectures. 12 00:00:45,610 --> 00:00:49,540 We also go over the true false and not given questions in live class videos. 13 00:00:49,690 --> 00:00:55,180 And also, if you're taking the general exam, you can look at the true false net giving questions that 14 00:00:55,180 --> 00:01:05,440 are in the academic section because the section three of the general reading exam is the same difficulty 15 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,740 level as the academic exam. 16 00:01:07,750 --> 00:01:14,770 So those those lectures actually work for you very well in terms of doing well in Section three of the 17 00:01:14,770 --> 00:01:15,760 general exam. 18 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:25,840 But the purpose of this video is to just show you how to apply our strategies and tactics within the 19 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,610 context of the general exam of the of the computer based exam. 20 00:01:30,610 --> 00:01:31,210 I'm sorry. 21 00:01:31,450 --> 00:01:33,280 So we have different questions over here. 22 00:01:33,290 --> 00:01:34,570 We have number one, if I want. 23 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,450 Number two, I click on number two and it opens. 24 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,430 Number three, I can click on it and open it for five and six. 25 00:01:44,530 --> 00:01:44,890 All right. 26 00:01:44,890 --> 00:01:45,490 So. 27 00:01:46,610 --> 00:01:51,440 We know we know from the from the strategy videos that you've already watched. 28 00:01:51,740 --> 00:01:55,820 We know that true, false not given questions go in order. 29 00:01:56,630 --> 00:01:57,800 You'll find number one. 30 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,040 And after number one, you'll find number two and number three and number four. 31 00:02:01,070 --> 00:02:02,810 They never go out of order. 32 00:02:03,140 --> 00:02:09,590 That's not the way it works on the paper based test or the computer based exam. 33 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:16,760 They don't they use they have the same questions, the same difficulty level, the same application 34 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,640 of strategy rights, the exact same. 35 00:02:20,390 --> 00:02:23,720 It's the exact same in terms of the strategies and tactics. 36 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:28,640 On the computer, you have to apply it a little bit differently because like you have to open and close 37 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:29,420 questions. 38 00:02:29,420 --> 00:02:32,450 And on the paper based tests, everything is right there in front of you. 39 00:02:33,380 --> 00:02:42,320 I actually personally think that the computer based format is great for reading, not so great for listening. 40 00:02:42,350 --> 00:02:48,860 I really like it for the reading part because for the reading part you have the passage on the left 41 00:02:48,860 --> 00:02:50,210 and you have the questions on the right. 42 00:02:50,210 --> 00:02:51,320 I think that's great. 43 00:02:52,250 --> 00:02:58,160 The listening part, I think, is a little more difficult because you have to be able to type and listen 44 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,450 simultaneously. 45 00:02:59,450 --> 00:03:01,730 And not everybody is very good at that. 46 00:03:02,420 --> 00:03:10,730 And also, you're not really able to effectively underline or circle key words, which really helps 47 00:03:10,730 --> 00:03:12,050 on the listening section. 48 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:18,140 But, you know, I guess if you really practice it a lot on the computer, you can get better at doing 49 00:03:18,140 --> 00:03:18,440 it. 50 00:03:18,890 --> 00:03:19,250 All right. 51 00:03:19,250 --> 00:03:25,820 So I'm not going to waste any more time as go ahead and look at this question just as a reminder. 52 00:03:26,430 --> 00:03:29,910 In terms of I need to take care of my battery. 53 00:03:30,630 --> 00:03:34,440 Just as a reminder, let's pause for a moment, everybody. 54 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:41,080 Okay. 55 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,060 Sorry about that. 56 00:03:42,060 --> 00:03:44,700 I needed to get my batteries situated. 57 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:47,850 I thought I had a plugged in and I guess I didn't have it plugged in properly. 58 00:03:48,070 --> 00:03:52,620 OC Let's look at this, these questions, right? 59 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:58,560 So in terms of strategy, I like to start with the one that's easiest to do first. 60 00:04:01,180 --> 00:04:03,640 This one where it says seven day tickets. 61 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,580 That's going to be really easy to find. 62 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,600 This one's dealing with combined rail and bus tickets. 63 00:04:13,270 --> 00:04:24,460 This one's talking about being allowed to do an intermediate to stop an intermediate station where you're 64 00:04:24,460 --> 00:04:26,650 allowed to stop at an intermediate station. 65 00:04:28,420 --> 00:04:31,480 This one's dealing with annual card holders 66 00:04:34,090 --> 00:04:37,930 being able to save 67 00:04:40,150 --> 00:04:41,920 outside the work week. 68 00:04:44,210 --> 00:04:44,440 All right. 69 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,770 This one's deal with children under the age of five. 70 00:04:48,730 --> 00:04:50,230 That should be easy to find. 71 00:04:51,250 --> 00:04:59,740 And this is talking about the photo use supply being displayed on your season ticket. 72 00:05:01,370 --> 00:05:01,720 Right. 73 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,600 So I'm going to do number 3/1. 74 00:05:04,780 --> 00:05:08,890 And once I find number three, I know number two and one are above that. 75 00:05:08,890 --> 00:05:12,820 And I know four or five and six are below that right now. 76 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:16,300 Let's go ahead and see. 77 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:20,260 We see 7 to 8 ticket right here. 78 00:05:21,310 --> 00:05:23,860 So that's where number three is actually here. 79 00:05:23,860 --> 00:05:24,160 I see. 80 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,800 Combined rail and bus. 81 00:05:28,450 --> 00:05:28,810 All right. 82 00:05:28,810 --> 00:05:31,120 That means that number two is here. 83 00:05:32,670 --> 00:05:36,240 OC Oh, well, breaking your journey. 84 00:05:37,230 --> 00:05:37,450 All right. 85 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:39,570 That's dealing with stopping. 86 00:05:39,570 --> 00:05:40,650 So actually, I know we're three. 87 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:42,540 We know we're three two. 88 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:43,740 And we're right now. 89 00:05:49,350 --> 00:05:56,880 Okay so here is dealing with this one's dealing with it is more expensive to buy four seven day tickets 90 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:58,850 than a monthly season ticket. 91 00:05:58,860 --> 00:05:59,280 All right. 92 00:05:59,280 --> 00:06:02,340 So is that true, false or not given? 93 00:06:03,090 --> 00:06:09,000 So actually for number three, I have to look at here and here because here it talks about the seven 94 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,800 day here it talks about the monthly. 95 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,870 So seven day, these normally cost less than the five standard day returns. 96 00:06:15,870 --> 00:06:18,020 They are valid for a full seven days. 97 00:06:18,030 --> 00:06:22,980 Nothing thereabout, nothing there about the comparison to a monthly ticket. 98 00:06:22,980 --> 00:06:30,240 But I cannot I cannot choose not given yet because I have to see what it says for monthly I'm looking 99 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:30,420 for. 100 00:06:30,420 --> 00:06:35,670 If there's a comparison between the seven day and the monthly where it says is more expensive to buy 101 00:06:35,970 --> 00:06:38,370 to buy for seven days than a monthly. 102 00:06:40,210 --> 00:06:45,970 Monthly season, tickets are priced at less than four times the cost of the seven day ticket. 103 00:06:46,180 --> 00:06:48,280 Less than four times the cost. 104 00:06:48,310 --> 00:06:50,530 That means number three is actually true. 105 00:06:53,090 --> 00:06:53,690 All right. 106 00:06:55,520 --> 00:07:00,210 Number one, we're talking about the standard season ticket, right? 107 00:07:00,230 --> 00:07:02,240 We're talking about the standard season ticket. 108 00:07:04,580 --> 00:07:07,940 Now, you notice down here at the bottom, number three is change colors. 109 00:07:08,690 --> 00:07:09,050 All right. 110 00:07:09,050 --> 00:07:13,370 So if you haven't if you haven't heard this explanation before, I'll explain it again. 111 00:07:13,490 --> 00:07:14,870 What this means. 112 00:07:15,290 --> 00:07:20,890 What this means is that number three, it has been answered. 113 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:22,820 I'm doing number one right now. 114 00:07:22,850 --> 00:07:25,820 Numbers two, four, five and six have not been answered. 115 00:07:25,850 --> 00:07:26,150 All right. 116 00:07:26,150 --> 00:07:28,220 So that's what those colors at the bottom mean. 117 00:07:31,100 --> 00:07:38,420 Standard season tickets are allowed unlimited travel so you can break the journey at any train station 118 00:07:38,420 --> 00:07:40,550 between the origin and destination. 119 00:07:40,790 --> 00:07:41,150 Right. 120 00:07:41,150 --> 00:07:42,500 So number one is true. 121 00:07:42,530 --> 00:07:46,550 Number one says you're allowed to stop off at an intermediate station when making a journey. 122 00:07:46,850 --> 00:07:50,390 This is you can you can break the journey there using synonym language. 123 00:07:51,140 --> 00:07:51,470 Right. 124 00:07:51,470 --> 00:07:52,130 You're allowed. 125 00:07:52,140 --> 00:07:52,540 You can. 126 00:07:52,550 --> 00:07:53,350 You can. 127 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,940 Which means what synonym for you are allowed. 128 00:07:55,940 --> 00:08:01,580 Break the journey, which means stop at any train station between the origin and destination. 129 00:08:01,580 --> 00:08:03,560 That means the intermediate station. 130 00:08:04,250 --> 00:08:04,520 All right. 131 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,010 And we know we're talking about a standard season ticket. 132 00:08:07,370 --> 00:08:08,510 So that's true. 133 00:08:10,930 --> 00:08:11,230 Right. 134 00:08:11,230 --> 00:08:18,130 So when using a combined rail and bus season ticket to major, part of your journey must be by train. 135 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:25,150 Major part must as a must as a powerful word. 136 00:08:25,690 --> 00:08:26,080 Right. 137 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:27,340 Must as a powerful word. 138 00:08:27,340 --> 00:08:28,750 Must means has to. 139 00:08:30,410 --> 00:08:33,890 OC combined rail and season tickets are available. 140 00:08:33,920 --> 00:08:36,200 This means reference pronouns. 141 00:08:36,260 --> 00:08:42,830 This means if you make your main journey by trail, you can then complete complete it by bus. 142 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:45,040 All right. 143 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:51,790 This means you can make your main journey by if if you make your main if you make your main journey 144 00:08:51,790 --> 00:08:55,810 by rail, you can then complete it by bus. 145 00:08:55,810 --> 00:08:57,130 So this is true. 146 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:06,520 The major part is synonym for if you make your main journey, the major part, it must be by rail, 147 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:08,260 which is synonym for train. 148 00:09:09,140 --> 00:09:09,420 Okay. 149 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:10,510 So that one is true. 150 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:11,900 So one is true. 151 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:14,140 Two is true. 152 00:09:15,220 --> 00:09:16,450 Three is true. 153 00:09:17,620 --> 00:09:18,020 All right. 154 00:09:18,050 --> 00:09:24,440 Next annual card season tickets entitles you to savings on rail journeys outside the working week. 155 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:26,890 Here. 156 00:09:26,890 --> 00:09:28,870 We're talking about the annual card. 157 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:36,440 All right. 158 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:47,240 I'm looking at this sentence because this is telling me what annual cardholders can do. 159 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,720 And that's what this question is asking what they can do. 160 00:09:51,740 --> 00:10:02,660 Annual cardholders can also save a third of the price on most standard class train fares in the region 161 00:10:02,660 --> 00:10:06,590 at weekends and on bank holidays. 162 00:10:07,310 --> 00:10:12,170 If this were, I guess weird told they were using American English, we wouldn't say at weekends, we 163 00:10:12,170 --> 00:10:18,860 would say on weekends, but same thing at weekends, on and on bank holidays. 164 00:10:19,370 --> 00:10:19,710 All right. 165 00:10:19,730 --> 00:10:23,780 So are you able to save money outside the working week? 166 00:10:23,810 --> 00:10:24,330 Yes. 167 00:10:24,350 --> 00:10:24,650 All right. 168 00:10:24,650 --> 00:10:27,820 So as you can have one third of price if it's on the weekend. 169 00:10:27,830 --> 00:10:29,480 So number four is true. 170 00:10:31,220 --> 00:10:31,550 All right. 171 00:10:31,550 --> 00:10:33,260 Let's move down to the number five. 172 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:37,850 And here we see something about children age 5 to 15. 173 00:10:38,630 --> 00:10:39,290 Right. 174 00:10:39,410 --> 00:10:47,660 And says children under the age of five are charged one third of the full price when accompanying you 175 00:10:47,660 --> 00:10:49,490 on an annual car journey. 176 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:51,780 Children under the age of five. 177 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:52,220 Right. 178 00:10:52,220 --> 00:10:52,850 So. 179 00:10:54,860 --> 00:11:01,130 If this is true, it's going to say that children under the age of five are charged one third. 180 00:11:01,250 --> 00:11:05,990 If it's false, it will say that they're charged something different than one third. 181 00:11:07,010 --> 00:11:08,420 That's how you know what's false. 182 00:11:08,420 --> 00:11:09,470 Do you understand? 183 00:11:10,490 --> 00:11:11,990 For it to be false. 184 00:11:12,740 --> 00:11:16,520 For it to be false, it has to report to be false. 185 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:17,960 That's what it has to do. 186 00:11:19,710 --> 00:11:21,550 Och, that's what it has to be able to do. 187 00:11:21,570 --> 00:11:23,850 It has to be able to tell you that type of information. 188 00:11:27,570 --> 00:11:28,020 All right. 189 00:11:28,020 --> 00:11:28,710 So. 190 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:32,750 Let's see. 191 00:11:32,750 --> 00:11:40,560 You can also take up to three adults with you at the same discount, while up to four children age 5 192 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:45,020 to 15 may accompany you for a minimum of £1 each. 193 00:11:45,590 --> 00:11:50,360 So they tell us nothing about children under the age of five. 194 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,910 They tell us about children 5 to 15. 195 00:11:52,910 --> 00:11:55,880 So we don't know anything about children under the age of five. 196 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,410 We have no information. 197 00:11:59,010 --> 00:12:02,190 We have no information about children under the age of five. 198 00:12:02,820 --> 00:12:04,080 No information. 199 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:05,640 Right. 200 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,190 We don't know if they get a discount. 201 00:12:08,460 --> 00:12:09,180 Maybe they do. 202 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:11,550 Maybe they do get a discount. 203 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,710 Maybe they don't get a discount. 204 00:12:14,310 --> 00:12:15,630 We don't know. 205 00:12:15,810 --> 00:12:18,720 All they talk about are children that are older than five. 206 00:12:19,290 --> 00:12:21,810 So this one is not given. 207 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:31,680 And finally, the photo you supply at the time of application is displayed on your season ticket. 208 00:12:32,010 --> 00:12:36,810 The photo you supply at the time of application is displayed on your season. 209 00:12:36,810 --> 00:12:39,060 So is the photo on the season ticket. 210 00:12:48,290 --> 00:12:54,740 Your season ticket is not valid without a photo card, and both must be always carried together. 211 00:12:57,540 --> 00:12:58,140 Right. 212 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,240 This is the photos you supply at the time of application is displayed on your season ticket, right? 213 00:13:05,270 --> 00:13:06,350 It doesn't say that. 214 00:13:07,250 --> 00:13:08,150 It doesn't say that. 215 00:13:08,180 --> 00:13:09,890 It says you have two things. 216 00:13:10,430 --> 00:13:13,610 You have the season ticket and you have the photo card. 217 00:13:15,090 --> 00:13:18,240 And you must have both of them carried together. 218 00:13:18,950 --> 00:13:19,350 All right. 219 00:13:19,350 --> 00:13:23,160 Now, if you look a little bit further, photo car will be issued free of charge. 220 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,020 Take a passport photo to the ticket office. 221 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:27,240 We'll do the rest. 222 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,100 As long as your photo remains a good likeness, you can continue to use the photo car with any subsequent 223 00:13:32,100 --> 00:13:32,760 season tickets. 224 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,340 So it says you have two things. 225 00:13:35,340 --> 00:13:38,310 You have a photo card and you have a season ticket separately. 226 00:13:38,820 --> 00:13:43,140 This says that the photo card and the season ticket are combined together. 227 00:13:43,380 --> 00:13:46,020 So this is an example of something being false. 228 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:47,910 The set. 229 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:50,540 The the question say is the photo. 230 00:13:51,230 --> 00:13:53,960 The photo is on the season ticket. 231 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:55,460 Meaning is one thing. 232 00:13:56,620 --> 00:13:57,850 Gray in the passage. 233 00:13:57,850 --> 00:14:03,370 It says the photo card and the season ticket are carry together right there. 234 00:14:03,580 --> 00:14:05,200 There are two separate things. 235 00:14:05,430 --> 00:14:05,730 Right. 236 00:14:05,740 --> 00:14:06,790 That means we have. 237 00:14:07,030 --> 00:14:09,340 That's an example of false. 238 00:14:10,070 --> 00:14:13,070 That's not not given that's an example of false. 239 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:23,600 So I hope this was very helpful for you in regards to how do you manage a how do you manage a true false 240 00:14:23,750 --> 00:14:24,770 given question? 241 00:14:24,770 --> 00:14:29,200 And how we really go about going from question to question and putting answers. 242 00:14:29,210 --> 00:14:34,850 Now, if I want to change my answer to true, I can do like this or not given I can change the answer 243 00:14:34,850 --> 00:14:35,450 around. 244 00:14:36,350 --> 00:14:36,650 All right. 245 00:14:36,650 --> 00:14:37,220 Thanks a lot.