‫We're now going to move on to our final question strategy lesson, which is on matching information
‫to paragraphs, I'll say from the start that this question type often gets confused with matching headings
‫to paragraphs, but there are some subtle differences that you should know.
‫Let's take a look at the basics of this question type.
‫So as you may be able to guess in this question, you will need to match statements to paragraphs.
‫The statement will relate only to a very short piece of the paragraph.
‫It could be a sentence or a short key phrase.
‫These statements could be descriptions, fact, explanations or anything else you can think of.
‫The statements will simply relate to a short part of the paragraph.
‫Regardless of what the statement is, the skull remains very much the same, simply matching the statement
‫to the paragraph.
‫Let's take a look at an example of this question time, so from the instructions sample passage seven
‫has eight paragraphs labeled eight to hate.
‫You can see the passage paragraphs will be labeled for you.
‫Underneath the instructions are our six questions or statements that need to be matched with the short
‫parts of the paragraph.
‫Let's take a look at an easy example of one of these question types that you can complete, I've continued
‫on from the passage that I used in the last lesson.
‫Let's take a quick read through the two paragraphs together.
‫On the 13th of May 1996, top researchers in global education met to discuss key characteristics in
‫children who achieve well in schools.
‫And Lieshout, a famous researcher from Norway, suggested that help given from a close family network
‫was the biggest factor in gifted children's progress.
‫However, not all attendees agreed with Lieshout on further discussion.
‫Many academics argued that feedback and discussions about progress played the largest role in academic
‫progression.
‫Many Western researchers also argued the quality of feedback played a pivotal role.
‫So that we have our two paragraphs and in each paragraph there are at least two or three pieces of key
‫information.
‫I'm now going to show you two statements that I would like you to link into the paragraphs.
‫Let's take a look at the statements now.
‫So, A, how well a teacher shares goals and targets with a student is highly important.
‫And B, as Summit was held to discuss academic excellence, I would like you to match these statements
‫with the paragraph and the part of the paragraph that is paired with it.
‫I'll give you some time to do this now.
‫OK, if you need some more time, please pause the video, I'll now show you which paragraph and the
‫part of the paragraph that links to the statements.
‫So here are our answers Statement A is paired with paragraph two, specifically the last sentence,
‫but your answer would be A and paragraph to B or statement B links with paragraph one, specifically
‫the first sentence of paragraph one in your ALT'S reading test.
‫You will, of course, have more statement and a larger passage to use.
‫Let's take a quick run through the strategy for matching information to passage questions, identify
‫the question time, read the statements first and underline key phrases.
‫At this point, I think it's a great idea to quickly skim read through the whole passage, but don't
‫spend too much time doing this.
‫Look for synonyms of the key phrases that you underlined in your statement.
‫Match their statements against the passage or specifically the lettered paragraphs.
‫That brings us to the end of our final lesson on question strategies.
‫If you've got any questions, do you remember to drop me a message?