A2 Key · Reading Parts 1–3: messages and short texts
A2 Key и B1 Preliminary (KET, PET) · Cambridge English · A2 Key (KET) Тема 1 4:40 Английское озвучивание · Английский + китайские субтитры (встроенные)
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A2 Key starts with three reading parts built from real-world texts. Part one: six short notices or messages. Part two: three short texts on the same topic and seven questions — for each question, choose the text that says it. Part three: one longer text with five questions. The memory hook: parts one to three are the street, not the library. Read each text like a shop window. And the official Cambridge handbook owns the format; these notes teach the strategy, not the rulebook.
Part one gives six tiny texts, each with three options, and two of them are traps. The trap shape: the wrong options repeat words from the text but twist the meaning; the correct answer says the same thing in different words. Your football is at Sam's house; he found it in the garden. Sam found the football is correct; the football is in the garden repeats the garden word, but the ball has moved on. The strategy: say the text's meaning in one Chinese sentence, then find the option that matches your sentence, not the words.
Pause and choose. Closes earlier than usual. The five appears in two traps, because the number is the bait; the meaning lives in the comparison, at five today, not six. Read the comparison, not the number.
Part two gives three short texts on the same topic — usually three people writing about it — and seven questions. For each question, choose the text that says it: A, B or C. The strategy: skim the three texts first, one line each. Then read the question as the target, not the topic. Who says the class was too expensive? All three texts may mention the class, but only one mentions the price. The trap texts share the question's words, so read to the end of the sentence. Each question is a photograph; only one text is the place it was taken.
Pause and choose. Leo. All three texts say the word match, and that word is the bait: Mia watched a film because tickets were too expensive, Zoe watched on TV, and only Leo went. Match the detail the question asks for, not the topic word every text shares.
Part three gives one longer text and five questions, in order: question two's answer comes after question one's answer in the text, so the order is a map. Find the part, read two lines before and after, then choose. If a question asks about the writer's purpose or feeling, find the feeling words: amazed, disappointed, relieved. And never answer from your own knowledge; the text is the truth, even when it is about pandas and you know everything about pandas.
Pause and choose. Amazed. I couldn't believe my eyes is amazement in plain clothes. For purpose and feeling questions, hunt the feeling words, not the facts; the letter is the furniture, the feeling is the answer.
Three habits that save marks. Read for meaning in chunks, not word by word; sixty minutes for seven parts is tight. Answer on the answer sheet as you go, because there is no transfer time in reading and writing; the question paper is scratch paper. And never leave blanks: there is no negative marking, so a guess beats a gap.
Try it. The note: Tom, the library closes at five today, not six; bring my book back before then, or I can't renew it; Ana. Question one: Ana wants Tom to return the book before five; B; before then means before five. Question two: the library today closes earlier than usual; B. The A options repeat the five and reverse the meaning: the word-match trap in its natural habitat.
Pause for four checks. An option that copies the text's exact words is suspicious: correct answers are reworded. In part two, two texts may share the question's words; match the detail, not the topic. Part three's answers follow the text order: the order is a map. And a guess beats a gap, always. Next topic: the Key cloze, where the grammar and vocabulary fill the gaps.