1 00:00:01,460 --> 00:00:09,170 ‫Hello and welcome back to another allt reading question strategy, a lesson in this lesson, we're going 2 00:00:09,170 --> 00:00:14,110 ‫to be learning strategies for answering sentence completion questions. 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,350 ‫Let's take a look at the basics of this question type. 4 00:00:19,780 --> 00:00:27,370 ‫You'd be given a number of sentences with gaps that you need to fill in, the gaps could come in the 5 00:00:27,370 --> 00:00:31,920 ‫middle of the sentence or they could come at the end of the sentence. 6 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,530 ‫You will find that information given in the passage. 7 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:42,910 ‫You need to read the instructions very carefully and stick to the word limit, which could be one, 8 00:00:43,060 --> 00:00:44,710 ‫two or three words. 9 00:00:44,980 --> 00:00:49,150 ‫Three is the maximum that you will see in the Eilts reading test. 10 00:00:50,370 --> 00:00:58,110 ‫The answers once again are in the text, you need to copy the language exactly with the correct spelling. 11 00:00:58,590 --> 00:01:04,290 ‫If you spell something incorrectly in your answer, you will receive no marks. 12 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:10,720 ‫So let's take a look at the strategy for completing this question type here. 13 00:01:10,770 --> 00:01:17,880 ‫I have a reading passage with three example questions for sentence completion. 14 00:01:18,660 --> 00:01:22,620 ‫In the instructions, it says no more than two words. 15 00:01:22,830 --> 00:01:27,150 ‫So your answers should be between one and two words. 16 00:01:28,230 --> 00:01:36,090 ‫One thing to note about sentence completion is that once again, the answers are in order inside the 17 00:01:36,090 --> 00:01:36,750 ‫text. 18 00:01:38,390 --> 00:01:45,080 ‫The first thing you want to do with sentence completion questions is to read through the questions and 19 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:54,500 ‫highlight key language sentence completion questions are not a test of your comprehension or understanding 20 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:55,460 ‫of the passage. 21 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:00,010 ‫So let's begin with the questions and highlight some key words. 22 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:01,960 ‫Here's some tips for you. 23 00:02:02,150 --> 00:02:06,490 ‫In question number one, I have highlighted mistakes and miserable. 24 00:02:07,460 --> 00:02:12,510 ‫I'm going to look for these words or synonyms of these words in the passage. 25 00:02:12,860 --> 00:02:15,020 ‫So let's look at the reading passage. 26 00:02:15,500 --> 00:02:22,520 ‫The first sentence running is not for everyone, and it makes you bloody miserable. 27 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,710 ‫Here I can see the words are exactly copied into the passage. 28 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:31,760 ‫In actual fact, more often than not, they will be synonyms. 29 00:02:31,910 --> 00:02:35,690 ‫So you need to be skimming and scanning the passage for synonyms. 30 00:02:36,950 --> 00:02:43,850 ‫So once again, highlight key words in the questions and then move into the reading passage and skim 31 00:02:43,850 --> 00:02:45,540 ‫for related language. 32 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:47,810 ‫I'll give you some time now. 33 00:02:47,810 --> 00:02:53,300 ‫Please pause the video to read through the passage and try and answer these questions. 34 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:11,370 ‫OK, please pause the video if you do need some more time. 35 00:03:11,390 --> 00:03:16,370 ‫And here are the questions for these three sentence completion questions. 36 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,070 ‫No one forced yourself no to hate running. 37 00:03:22,370 --> 00:03:24,560 ‫And number three, depressed. 38 00:03:25,710 --> 00:03:30,220 ‫Let's go over sentence completion strategy one more time. 39 00:03:30,810 --> 00:03:39,330 ‫First, read the instructions carefully and check the word limit, start with the questions and try 40 00:03:39,330 --> 00:03:42,610 ‫and highlight key vocabulary and language. 41 00:03:43,230 --> 00:03:52,320 ‫Remember that the answers are in order in the passage, highlight key words in the questions, move 42 00:03:52,320 --> 00:03:58,140 ‫to the passage and skim and scan looking for any matching language or synonyms. 43 00:03:58,410 --> 00:04:01,480 ‫You will most likely find your answers there. 44 00:04:02,550 --> 00:04:06,760 ‫So that brings us to the end of this question type strategy lesson. 45 00:04:07,170 --> 00:04:08,250 ‫See you in the next lesson.