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In this lecture, we're going to be going over a strategy application lecture for the table question.
Now, the table question is very simply just a redesigned field, the blank question.
There are some slight differences, and I'll go over that right now.
And we will also work on going through an application of the strategy with a real passage.
So let's go ahead and get started now.
So with the table question, we know that it really is a fill in the blank, but it's in a table format.
The one major difference that I want to highlight is that with a table question, it's possible for
two questions to go out of order.
And we see that mainly if, for example, we look in this last box at the bottom, if we had a question
five in question, six in the same box, back to back questions, it is possible for these questions
to go out of order in the passage where you find the answer for number six before you find the answer
for a number five, that's really the only real difference between a table question and a standard field.
The blank question.
You still have the scanning requirement.
You have to find the keywords in the different boxes.
Then you have to scan for those keywords in the passage, find your sentence, find your matching sentence,
and then put the correct word on the blank line.
The same process.
So coming up next, we're going to go ahead and walk through a full passage application for the table
question.
We're going to work on scanning for the keywords, identifying the keywords, scanning for the keywords,
and then applying the answer strategy.
So this one comes from Cambridge Book eight, Test two, Part one See Glass Manufacturer The Float Process.
So go ahead and get your book.
Open it up and let's go ahead and get started.
Okay.
So we see the reading passage starting on the left, continuing on the right, and there we have the
table.
QUESTION One, two, three, four and five.
Now you'll notice for number one, they don't have anything there in the box, but you see that the
category is method.
And they had the second method listed right here, ribbon.
So you're looking for the name of the first method.
So our first step is to work on identifying the keywords for the different boxes, the language and
the different boxes.
So what I want you to do is open up your Cambridge book eight to test two.
Part one sets the clock for 30 seconds, 30 seconds, everybody, and then stop the lecture and find
the keywords in questions one through five.
So stop the lecture now and do that, please.
All right.
So you should have breezed through that pretty quickly.
Fairly quickly.
For number two, we have glass remained.
That language will lead us to number two.
Number before number three, we have slow.
We're talking about disadvantages slow.
And then we need the next disadvantage.
For number four, we have ribbon.
And then we after getting the method name of ribbon, we go into finding number four with the words
glass sheets.
The word varying will connect directly to the answer choice.
And also part of that will.
We'll see the language that represents non stop process for number five glass was and then also before
that we'll see something about or after that something about 20%.
So I hope that you were able to highlight the same words that I found, and we can now move on to the
next step.
We're going to go ahead and scan for the keywords.
We're going to look for the matching sentences in the passage for the keywords.
Now, of course, if you're working from your book and you want to go ahead and scan and answer, then
go ahead and set your your clock for 5 minutes.
Set it for 5 minutes.
I think you could do it in 5 minutes.
Set up for 5 minutes and try to answer these questions in 5 minutes, scanning and answering these questions
in 5 to 6 minutes.
If you want some more information about the scanning process.
I've mentioned this before in a few of the other lectures that I'll mention it again, scanning is very
critical to your doing well on the reading section of the exam.
You can stop the lecture and read through this in terms of how to scan.
Scanning is a skill.
It gets better with practice.
You have to work on it as a skill.
If you do that, you'll get better.
And the better your scanning, the greater chance you have of scoring seven plus on the exam.
All right, now it's time to see if we can find the matching sentences in the passage.
Set your clock for 3 minutes.
Now, I would probably maybe find 20% first because that will tell me that everything else is above
that point.
You also could start off by looking for ribbon first.
But now we're going to go ahead and set the clock for 3 minutes.
Open your book, stop the lecture, and let's see if you can find the matching sentences for numbers
one through five.
Let's go ahead and do that right now.
So you should have found the matching sentences for one through five in the very beginning of the passage.
Number one.
Well, we know I have I have this highlighted in blue because we're talking about the early methods
of producing flat glass and they're talking about Mesopotamia and Egypt.
So that let me know that we're really starting from this point right here.
I see 20%.
So when I when you find 20%, that tells you that everything is above that everything else is above
that.
Nothing is below that mark of 20%.
Nothing's below that.
And that's a big, big help when you're trying to save time.
So that's why I mentioned about starting with 20%.
Now for number one, we see where it says the first successful method.
So we know we're going to find number one in this sentence.
Number two is going to be in this sentence.
We have the word glass.
And so it stayed, which is a synonym of remained.
Now, here for number three, we see it took a long time.
That's a synonym for slow and we see the word.
And because we need two things here.
Number four, we see glass sheets, we see glass, we see non stop, we see glass and we see virtually
any that's a paraphrasing of varying.
And then for number five, glass was right glass was we're looking for the answer that comes before
20%.
Number five is probably the one that is the the most difficult.
But I know you can find the answer.
I know you can.
So go ahead and set your timer for 3 minutes.
I really think you can do it in 2 minutes.
So if you really are working on time pressure and trying to do it as fast as possible, set your clock
for 2 minutes instead of 3 minutes.
Now.
Let's go ahead and look at the questions here.
One through five, we have our matching sentences.
Go ahead and stop the lecture right now.
Open your book and answer questions one through five.
Remember.
You're really working with a three minute clock.
I think it's better to work with a two minute clock because we only have five questions.
So let's go ahead and get started with answering the questions right now.
So let's see if you were able to find the answers for the questions.
Number one is obviously spinning.
The first successful method involves spinning.
So the answer is spinning.
Number two remained perfectly unblemished.
So it stayed perfectly unblemished.
Took a long time and was labor intensive.
So labor intensive is correct for number three.
Now, you notice I put the American spelling.
You can put the American spelling or you can put the British British spelling, labour and labour intensive
or with.
Oh, you are.
You know, this is just dealing with American and British.
And now for number four.
Virtually any thickness, varying thickness.
And for number five, what happened to the glass?
The glass was what?
Now, where it says would leave both sides when it says would leave both sides of the glass.
That's the same as saying that the glass was was marked.
What happened to the glass would leave both sides of the glass marked.
So the glass was marked.
Like I said, number five was probably the most difficult one to do.
Thank you very much for joining me and going through that table.
I'll see you in the next strategy application lecture for the table question.
Thanks a lot.
Talk to you soon.