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‫We're now moving on to strategies for the summary completion question.

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‫This is often considered a slightly more difficult question, and there's a good chance that you'll

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‫see it in either Section two or three if it comes up on the day of your child's reading test.

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‫Let's take a look at some of the basics for the summary completion question type, in my opinion.

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‫Again, there's probably an equal 50/50 chance that you will see this question time on the day of your

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‫ELT's reading test.

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‫In this question, you will need to again fill out gaps in a passage of a text, this piece of text

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‫or the passage will be a short summary of something.

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‫There are two kinds of summary completion questions.

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‫One of them gives you options in a box for the possible answers in the missing gaps.

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‫The other does not give you any answer box, and you need to take the answers from the text.

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‫Here is an example of the first type of summary completion without the box, you may also notice that

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‫in the instructions we have a word limit.

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‫And in this example, it says no more than one word from the reading passage for each answer.

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‫That does mean that your answers need to be copied exactly with the correct spelling from the reading

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‫passage.

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‫Let's take a look at the next type of summary completion question.

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‫The first thing that you should say is that towards the bottom of the question, we have our suggested

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‫answer box above that we have the instructions and our passage that we need to fill out.

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‫One important thing to note is that there are more suggested answers than we need, so we won't need

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‫to use all of these answers to fill out the gaps.

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‫Let's take a look at some strategies for answering these questions.

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‫So beginning with the first type of summary completion question without the answer box.

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‫Here is my suggested strategy.

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‫Read the instructions carefully.

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‫What kind of summary completion question is it?

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‫Well, in this example, we need to give our answers from the reading passage.

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‫We don't have a suggested answer box.

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‫Start with the passage.

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‫Skim quickly over the text to give an overall understanding of the summary.

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‫Highlight key words in the passage.

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‫Then move back to the passage and skim and scan for synonyms of your key words.

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‫Let's take a look, the other type of summary completion question, again, read the instructions and

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‫work out what type of summary completion question it is.

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‫Skim over the entire passage to get a quick understanding of the topic, I suggest not reading too carefully

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‫as you're going to run out of time when skimming.

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‫Try and predict what the missing words may be.

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‫And I'll give you an example for question one young people everywhere are having to overcome new as

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‫they look for work now straight away.

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‫I'm thinking problems or difficulties, so I will return to the answer box and look for similar words

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‫or synonyms that could fit that question.

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‫Try and make predictions about what language could be used and then match the similar answer from their

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‫answer box.

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‫That brings us to the end of the lesson on summary completion strategies.

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‫If you've got any questions, remember the Q&A feature of the course and I'll see you in the next lesson.