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I am Dori, I am a teacher of English and
in today's video we will talk about completion tasks
in IELTS Reading
These tasks are note
completion, flow-chart completion,
sentence completion, summary completion
and table completion tasks. All completion tasks
are similar in terms of the strategy we follow
so here are some basic things that you need
to remember. First of all, there will be
a word limit so please read the instructions
carefully and see the word limit
that you need to write in order to fill in the gaps, there will be
usually no more that one word, two words or three words
so underline these and remember while you fill in
the exercise. Secondly, this is really important
usually in most tasks in IELTS
Reading, the questions in the tasks
and the gaps follow the same order
as they will appear in the text. Unfortunately,
this is not the case with completion tasks
so please please remember and keep in mind that when you see
a completion task the questions
and the gaps will not necessarily
follow the order that they will be displayed
in the text, ok? So please keep that in mind 'cause this is really important
Thirdly, this is an important point, too
You should copy the words that you find in the text exactly the same way
in order to fill in the gaps. So, they have to both fit
grammatically and syntactically. If they do not
you mustn't change their form. So, for example
If you find a verb in the text
and in order to fill a gap-you think
this is the correct answer- so in order to fill a gap, you need to make it a noun
don't do that, this is not
correct. You should copy the words
exactly as you found them in the text in order
to fill in the gaps, ok? So, If you have to change their
form in order for them to fit in, then you probably make a mistake, so
search a little bit further, alright? So, these are three very important points that you need to
remember
concerning note completion
table completion, flow-chart completion, sentence completion,
and summary completion tasks, pretty much every completion
tasks, ok? So, other than that, you should follow the same advice
that I have already shared with you about
underlining: you should underline key-words that precede gaps
and these key-words are going to guide you through the text
in order to find where the correct answer is located
you should be careful of paraphrasing always in IELTS
concentrate on meanings and not on words
that is, and of course it is always helpful to be good at skimming
and scanning techniques, ok? And now let's go and have a look
how these completion tasks
will look like. Ok, this is how a sentence completion task
will look like you need to fill the gaps in the sentences
so you should be careful of the word limit
In this example you shouldn't write more
than three words. So, you can see it
here in the instructions, ok? Also, remember that the questions
will not appear in the same order in the text, for example,
you may find the answer to the question 23 first
and then the answer to the question twenty one
ok? They are going to be mixed most probably
Phrases like "communicative approach"
over here-- phrases like that cannot be
paraphrased easily, so underline them
as they will be your guide so as to help you find the answer
in the text. Ok, a note completion task will look like this
again, read the instructions carefully here you must write no more than
two words
The same tips basically are applied here too
use the words before the gaps
in this case phrases like this one, use these words before the gaps in order
to locate
the answers in the text. Ok,
this is a flow-chart completion task
again, check out the word limit in the instructions
in this case, you should write no more than one word
as you can see here, the order
of the questions will not be the same it will not
appear necessarily in the same order in the task
and the words you can see before the gaps
for example here "nuclear power generates" these phrases are really really
important you should
underline them because they will guide you through
your scanning in the text. Please remember that you have to fill in the
gaps with the exact same words
you will find in the reading passage
as you can understand, the same goes with a table completion task
instead of a flow-chart, you're going to see a table
and you have to fill in the gaps again and the same goes also with
summary completion tasks where you're going to get a
passage which is the summary of the text more or
less and you need to fill in the gaps again always remember
that you have to copy the words exactly as you find them
in the text and they have to fit
and they have to fit the gap both grammatically
and syntactically, ok?
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