‫We're now moving on to strategies for the summary completion question.
‫This is often considered a slightly more difficult question, and there's a good chance that you'll
‫see it in either Section two or three if it comes up on the day of your child's reading test.
‫Let's take a look at some of the basics for the summary completion question type, in my opinion.
‫Again, there's probably an equal 50/50 chance that you will see this question time on the day of your
‫ELT's reading test.
‫In this question, you will need to again fill out gaps in a passage of a text, this piece of text
‫or the passage will be a short summary of something.
‫There are two kinds of summary completion questions.
‫One of them gives you options in a box for the possible answers in the missing gaps.
‫The other does not give you any answer box, and you need to take the answers from the text.
‫Here is an example of the first type of summary completion without the box, you may also notice that
‫in the instructions we have a word limit.
‫And in this example, it says no more than one word from the reading passage for each answer.
‫That does mean that your answers need to be copied exactly with the correct spelling from the reading
‫passage.
‫Let's take a look at the next type of summary completion question.
‫The first thing that you should say is that towards the bottom of the question, we have our suggested
‫answer box above that we have the instructions and our passage that we need to fill out.
‫One important thing to note is that there are more suggested answers than we need, so we won't need
‫to use all of these answers to fill out the gaps.
‫Let's take a look at some strategies for answering these questions.
‫So beginning with the first type of summary completion question without the answer box.
‫Here is my suggested strategy.
‫Read the instructions carefully.
‫What kind of summary completion question is it?
‫Well, in this example, we need to give our answers from the reading passage.
‫We don't have a suggested answer box.
‫Start with the passage.
‫Skim quickly over the text to give an overall understanding of the summary.
‫Highlight key words in the passage.
‫Then move back to the passage and skim and scan for synonyms of your key words.
‫Let's take a look, the other type of summary completion question, again, read the instructions and
‫work out what type of summary completion question it is.
‫Skim over the entire passage to get a quick understanding of the topic, I suggest not reading too carefully
‫as you're going to run out of time when skimming.
‫Try and predict what the missing words may be.
‫And I'll give you an example for question one young people everywhere are having to overcome new as
‫they look for work now straight away.
‫I'm thinking problems or difficulties, so I will return to the answer box and look for similar words
‫or synonyms that could fit that question.
‫Try and make predictions about what language could be used and then match the similar answer from their
‫answer box.
‫That brings us to the end of the lesson on summary completion strategies.
‫If you've got any questions, remember the Q&A feature of the course and I'll see you in the next lesson.