1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:10,240 ‫OK, we will now move on for some strategies to answer matching sentence endings questions, let's look 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:13,360 ‫over the basic information for this question type. 3 00:00:14,830 --> 00:00:22,900 ‫So the matching sentence endings is a less common question, but it's useful to be familiar with it 4 00:00:22,900 --> 00:00:23,860 ‫just in case. 5 00:00:23,860 --> 00:00:33,010 ‫It does appear in your ELT's reading test, you will be given a list of incomplete sentences and a list 6 00:00:33,010 --> 00:00:34,710 ‫of possible endings. 7 00:00:35,110 --> 00:00:41,380 ‫There will be more possible endings than you need, so you only need to use the ones that fit. 8 00:00:42,790 --> 00:00:49,690 ‫You'll need to match the incomplete sentences together with your knowledge from the reading passage, 9 00:00:49,810 --> 00:00:54,220 ‫and that's very important that you use your knowledge from the reading passage. 10 00:00:54,460 --> 00:00:57,010 ‫And I'm going to show you why now. 11 00:00:58,890 --> 00:01:07,620 ‫So here is a short example of a matching sentence and in question here we have question seven to eight, 12 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,120 ‫but usually there will be four questions or possibly more. 13 00:01:12,180 --> 00:01:13,950 ‫You can see that below. 14 00:01:13,950 --> 00:01:18,590 ‫The instructions in this question are two numbers, seven and eight. 15 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,310 ‫And these are the first parts of your sentence. 16 00:01:22,710 --> 00:01:26,050 ‫They need to be matched to the sentence ending below. 17 00:01:26,460 --> 00:01:33,300 ‫I've given the example of two starts and four endings, but when it comes to your child's reading test, 18 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:37,380 ‫you'll have more questions and sentence options than this. 19 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:45,240 ‫What I'd like you to do is try and pair these sentences together without the passage and see if it's 20 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:45,780 ‫possible. 21 00:01:46,290 --> 00:01:50,190 ‫I'll give you a short amount of time to look at doing that now. 22 00:01:50,370 --> 00:01:54,720 ‫But you can also pause the video if you'd like to spend more time doing it. 23 00:02:18,340 --> 00:02:25,380 ‫OK, as I'm sure you can see, it's fairly difficult to do without using the passage. 24 00:02:25,570 --> 00:02:33,250 ‫So when it comes to you completing this question type, don't try and match them logically as the chances 25 00:02:33,250 --> 00:02:34,890 ‫are you'll get it wrong. 26 00:02:36,110 --> 00:02:41,270 ‫Let's take a look at this example question with the passage. 27 00:02:44,170 --> 00:02:51,550 ‫So I will give you some time to read through the passage now and also read through the questions and 28 00:02:51,550 --> 00:02:53,830 ‫the sentences aren't matched. 29 00:03:19,210 --> 00:03:28,630 ‫So here are your answers, seven matches with a apart from huge risks later in life. 30 00:03:28,810 --> 00:03:37,270 ‫Children immediately suffer from a variety of respiratory problems that matches with the second sentence 31 00:03:37,270 --> 00:03:38,200 ‫in the passage. 32 00:03:38,710 --> 00:03:46,120 ‫And question number eight matches with C eating habits in developed countries around the world have 33 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:53,950 ‫increased the percentage of overweight children that matches with the third sentence in the passage. 34 00:03:54,490 --> 00:04:01,000 ‫So now let's have a look at the exact strategy for answering the matching sentence, ending question 35 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:01,420 ‫type. 36 00:04:02,650 --> 00:04:07,240 ‫Of course, read the instructions very carefully and check which question it is. 37 00:04:07,510 --> 00:04:17,020 ‫Then we can apply the right strategy, read the first half sentences first, underline key words, then 38 00:04:17,020 --> 00:04:25,660 ‫skim and scan the passage, looking out for common shared synonyms with the first half sentences, checked 39 00:04:25,660 --> 00:04:29,700 ‫information against the first part of the sentence. 40 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:37,330 ‫In other words, see if your matching sentence matches some of the information in the passage, then 41 00:04:37,330 --> 00:04:38,980 ‫check your answers. 42 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:45,550 ‫So here are the exact instructions for the strategies for this question type in. 43 00:04:45,550 --> 00:04:48,940 ‫The next lesson will be looking at matching headings. 44 00:04:49,270 --> 00:04:49,930 ‫See you there.