IELTS Express Intermediate Second Edition Board Race Unit 3 Reading p.26-30

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Board Race.  There are 8 questions.  All of the questions are from pages 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30.  Work as a team to find the answers in your book.  Then write the answer on the board.  Only one team member may go up to the board at a time.  You may not bring this piece of paper or your textbook with you to the board.  The first team to get the correct answers to all 8 questions up on the board will get a prize.

1. An effective way to learn lots of synonyms and paraphrases is to ____________________

2. In the General Training module, you will often find short texts.  In the Academic module, you will have to read whole paragraphs.  However, in both modules, you will need to learn the skill of matching words according to ____________________.

3. How many types of sentence completion tasks are there?  

4. In sentence completion tasks, the question will occur in what order?

5. For table completion, why should you read the instructions carefully?  

6. In sentence completion tasks with choices from the text, why should you read the options (endings) carefully?  

7. For sentence completion, read each sentence and identify ____________________

8. Table completion: What will tell you what kind of information is missing from the table?

Answers:

1. An effective way to learn lots of synonyms and paraphrases is to use an English-English dictionary as much as possible.
2. In the General Training module, you will often find short texts.  In the Academic module, you will have to read whole paragraphs.  However, in both modules, you will need to learn the skill of matching words according to synonyms and paraphrases.
3. How many types of sentence completion tasks are there?  two
4. In sentence completion tasks, the question will occur in what order? the same order they appear in the text.
5. For table completion, why should you read the instructions carefully?  to see how many words and numbers you can use to answer each question
6. In sentence completion tasks with choices from the text, why should you read the options (endings) carefully?  It is likely that more than one ending could complete the sentence
7. For sentence completion, read each sentence and identify the section in the text it refers to.
8. Table completion: What will tell you what kind of information is missing from the table? the row and column headings