Okay, so let's get started.
Thank you very much for joining me today.
This is a live group reading class.
And the purpose of this live group reading class is to go over reading strategy as it applies to certain
question types.
So let's get started.
So I'm going to be going through two passages, and those two passages will cover five different questions.
Passage one has a headings question, a multiple choice question and a summary question or a it's called
a paragraph Fill the blank question.
Passage two has a field of blank question, the normal type of field of blank blank question.
And it also has a yes no, not given question or a true false not given question.
There's there's a a slight difference between those two questions.
Not not any difference in strategy, but in terms of whether you're dealing with facts or opinions.
So coming up first, I'm going to be going through the first passage, which is from Cambridge 16 General
Test one, Section three.
As I said in the announcement, Section three of the general exam is at the exact same level as the
academic exam.
So this reading passage is appropriate for those taking the general test and those taking the academic
tests.
On the general test.
Section one and Section two are much easier than the academic, but then Section three is at the same
level as the academic test.
And the reason why they do that is because they want to be able to separate people in terms of a rubric
score.
So for those of you that can that are taking the general test, if you can manage Section three.
Those are the people that are normally getting scores of seven, eight and nine on the reading section.
The title of this one, again, is called Plastic is No Longer Fantastic, and it is in Cambridge 16
General Test one, Section three.
Again, we have three question types.
We have a headings question, multiple choice question and a summary question.
On my screen right here.
You can see the reading passage and you'll be able to see the reading passage on my screen if you don't
have it yourself.
If you have it yourself, you can use what you have in front of you.
But this is what the reading passage is.
You can see from the length of the reading passage that this is at the same level as the academic test.
Now, like I said, we have three types of questions we're dealing with here.
We have the headings question, the multiple choice question and a summary question or what some people
call it as a paragraph.
Fill in the blank question.
In terms of strategy.
You know, first we'll go through the headings, question the multiple choice and the summary question.
I'm reviewing strategy that I've already covered in the Udemy course, but I'm going to review it very
briefly here also.
So for a headings question, normally you want to complete this question the last one of the set.
So for example, I would do the multiple choice question and the summary question first and then go
back and do the headings.
Question.
The reason why I'm going to do that is because by doing the multiple choice and the summary question
first.
It gives me an opportunity to be able to look at the paragraphs, understand what the different paragraphs
are about, so that when I go back and do the headings question, I have much more information about
what's going to be the proper heading for that specific paragraph.
If you just start with the headings question, you have no background information, you have no information,
you're going into it blank.
And that's why students often waste a lot of time doing it and over reading and reading too much.
So essentially your job with the headings question is to find the right heading title for the paragraph.
Most of the time.
The vast majority of the time.
The first sentence and at most the first two sentences are all that you need to answer the question.
That's all you need, right, for for the for the majority of these types of questions.
Now, they normally are going to have maybe 1 or 2 questions that will require more depth or should
be depth of reading in a paragraph, more depth of reading in a paragraph.
And the reason why they have those more difficult questions is those are the questions that separate
students.
Those are the questions that only a student maybe this can get a seven, 8 or 9 on the exam can really
answer well.
So whenever you're doing the reading section or the listening section of the exam, they always there
questions.
Questions are at different levels, different levels of difficulty.
All the questions are not the same level of difficulty because you have to be able to separate students
and that's the way it's done.
In terms of a multiple choice question.
This is a question type that goes in order.
And your first job is to highlight the key words and then you want to locate the matching passage sentence.
That's what you want to be able to do.
You can locate the matching passage sentences one at a time and answer them or locate all the matching
sentences and then answer them whatever is works best for you.
Now, it is possible for a multiple choice question to be a combination of two sentences in a passage
where they'll take two sentences.
They'll take some information from one sentence, some information from the next sentence, put that
together to form a question.
It is also possible that sometimes the matching sentence is a starting point.
Right.
It's a starting point of where they want you to start from, but then the answer is located in the following
sentence.
So they do all these different types of things to be able to hide and disguise where answers are.
The key point with the multiple choice question is that the correct answer is going to be paraphrased.
Right.
It's going to be paraphrased in the matching sentence.
It will be a paraphrase.
And then finally, we have our summary question for the most part.
This question goes in order.
It is possible if you have two blank lines in one sentence, that you'll find them in the opposite order.
That's possible.
But this is essentially a fill the blank question.
They're taking sentences from one passage or normally sentences from two passages to two paragraphs
I'm sorry, two paragraphs, and you place them in a single paragraph.
In a single paragraph.
And so it follows the same structure and strategy as a fill in the blank question.
Where you highlight the key words in the sentence.
Locate the matching sentence.
Note what words are before and after the blank line because those words will point directly to the answer
choice.
All right, so.
Before I move on and we actually go into answering these questions.
Does anybody have a question about anything that I have covered so far?
If you have a question about anything that I've covered so far, please ask me your question in the
chat box and I'll address your question right now.
If there are no questions, I'll move forward and we will start going into answering these questions
and applying this strategy.
I'll wait about 20s to see if there's a question.
And if not, I'm going to move forward.
Okay, let's move forward.
So coming up next, let's go ahead and first for this first reading passage, we're going to practice
the skill of highlighting or underlining the key words and then scanning for the matching sentences.
Again, here is our reading passage.
So the first skill test we're going to work on is not really question scanning, but we're going to
underline and write down the question keywords.
That's what we're going to do.
First, we're going to underline and write down the question keywords if you have your own passage in
front of you.
Then you can just underline the keywords in the in the different questions.
If you don't, then you should write down the keywords on a piece of paper next to you or write down
the key or type them on your phone.
Or whatever, because you're going to need to be able to see those key words when we start scanning
for the matching sentences.
So what I want you to do, what I want you to do is I want you to find the keywords for all three questions,
the headings question, the multiple choice question and also the summary question.
So I want you to I want you to scan for keywords in all three questions.
All right.
So I'm going to give you.
About a minute.
One minute.
And I want you to locate the keywords in each of the question types.
Okay.
One minute, everybody.
Like I said, if you don't have it, if you don't have your own copy in front of you, write down what
the key words are on a piece of paper.
Write them down on a piece of paper.
You're going to need to do that.
All right.
So now some of you may be asking, well, why?
Why are we highlighting the key words in the headings?
Question Why are you doing that?
If we're going to do the multiple choice question and the summary questions first, why does he want
me to highlight the keywords in the headings?
Question This is why by doing that you're putting the keywords in your mind.
And that way when you're doing the multiple choice question, the summary question, you know, you're
you may come across some information that relates to those keywords in the headings.
Question And it's going to be much easier for you to go back and answer that question.
That's the reason why I asked you to do that.
So even though you're not going to do the headings question first, you still want to highlight those
key words.
Then you want to be able to do the other ones.
So.
If I'm highlighting the keywords and the questions, these these are the keywords that I have identified.
Identify the keywords in the different headings.
Like I said, I'm going to keep that information in my mind when I move forward and do the multiple
choice and the summary question for 35.
I have highlighted for Fernando say and Glass water bottle.
What I look at this question.
You know, glass water bottle is very specific and that's going to help me find the keyword sentence
or the starting point, one of those two things.
But really, the really important information here is Fernando Say.
When it says, What does Fernando say?
That means we're going to find something in quotations, something that he said.
So whatever he said is going to have to be in that sentence where we see glass water bottle or right
after that where we see glass water bottle.
But that's what we're trying to pay attention to.
In 36.
The key words there are fascinating about Fernando's story.
We'll find question 36 where we find that information.
37 is Colossus Bike Helmet.
Right.
We're looking and trying to find whatever answers to 37 is going to come where we see that.
And then for the summary question, you can see the different words that I have highlighted there.
30 years ago.
Creators money from the bank that's going to help me find 38 immediate funding advertising will help
me find 39 create bottles in two colors.
That's really going to that should be easy to find.
And they're receiving a more significant amount.
That's the information that's going to help me to be able to find the matching sentences.
Being able to scan and find matching sentences is the entire key to being able to answer questions quickly
and accurately.
When students are not able to do that.
They end up overeating, reading too much and then they choose wrong answer choices.
Also students that are not disciplined, meaning they find the right matching sentence, but they just
decide, I'm going to read ten more sentences because I want to, quote, be sure.
Then you get confused.
Then you read information for wrong answer choices and you get answers wrong.
So, you know, it requires discipline.
All right, So now the next thing that I want you to do is, as I said earlier, you should have written
down those key words from the questions, because the next thing we're going to do is find the matching
sentences.
We're working on skills here.
I'm teaching.
So this is not just here's the passage.
Turn on 20 minutes and work.
No, this is I'm teaching you skill, so I'm taking it step by step.
All right.
So the next thing we're going to do is try to locate the matching sentences, the matching sentences
before I go forward.
Is there anybody that has not written down all the keywords yet and they want more time to do that?
If you have not done that, you should have done it because on the next screen you're only going to
see the passage.
That's all you're going to see on the next screen.
And if you don't have those keywords down in front of you, you're not going to be able to really locate
the matching sentences.
Okay.
I'm going to give you.
One minute and 30s maybe two minutes.
And all I want you to do is to scan the passage and locate the matching sentences.
If you're doing it, if you don't have the passage in front of you, then when you're locating the matching
matching sentence, you can just do something like paragraph B, line two or paragraph C, line one,
right?
You can do it that way.