‫OK, we will now move on for some strategies to answer matching sentence endings questions, let's look
‫over the basic information for this question type.
‫So the matching sentence endings is a less common question, but it's useful to be familiar with it
‫just in case.
‫It does appear in your ELT's reading test, you will be given a list of incomplete sentences and a list
‫of possible endings.
‫There will be more possible endings than you need, so you only need to use the ones that fit.
‫You'll need to match the incomplete sentences together with your knowledge from the reading passage,
‫and that's very important that you use your knowledge from the reading passage.
‫And I'm going to show you why now.
‫So here is a short example of a matching sentence and in question here we have question seven to eight,
‫but usually there will be four questions or possibly more.
‫You can see that below.
‫The instructions in this question are two numbers, seven and eight.
‫And these are the first parts of your sentence.
‫They need to be matched to the sentence ending below.
‫I've given the example of two starts and four endings, but when it comes to your child's reading test,
‫you'll have more questions and sentence options than this.
‫What I'd like you to do is try and pair these sentences together without the passage and see if it's
‫possible.
‫I'll give you a short amount of time to look at doing that now.
‫But you can also pause the video if you'd like to spend more time doing it.
‫OK, as I'm sure you can see, it's fairly difficult to do without using the passage.
‫So when it comes to you completing this question type, don't try and match them logically as the chances
‫are you'll get it wrong.
‫Let's take a look at this example question with the passage.
‫So I will give you some time to read through the passage now and also read through the questions and
‫the sentences aren't matched.
‫So here are your answers, seven matches with a apart from huge risks later in life.
‫Children immediately suffer from a variety of respiratory problems that matches with the second sentence
‫in the passage.
‫And question number eight matches with C eating habits in developed countries around the world have
‫increased the percentage of overweight children that matches with the third sentence in the passage.
‫So now let's have a look at the exact strategy for answering the matching sentence, ending question
‫type.
‫Of course, read the instructions very carefully and check which question it is.
‫Then we can apply the right strategy, read the first half sentences first, underline key words, then
‫skim and scan the passage, looking out for common shared synonyms with the first half sentences, checked
‫information against the first part of the sentence.
‫In other words, see if your matching sentence matches some of the information in the passage, then
‫check your answers.
‫So here are the exact instructions for the strategies for this question type in.
‫The next lesson will be looking at matching headings.
‫See you there.