hello everyone, welcome to my channel
I am Dori I am a teacher of English
and in today's video, we will talk about matching tasks
in IELTS Reading. So, there are two types
of matching tasks: matching names
titles, ideas, matching names basically,
and matching headings
So, let's begin with the first one
matching names task. In this task,
you're going to get a number of statements and you have to match
these statements with a number of options that you are going to get
in a box. These options are basically names or titles or ideas
expressed in the text. As always, the options
are going to be more than you need. Ok, now let's go and
have a look at one of these tasks. Ok,
Here, we can see a "matching names"
task. You have to match the questions
the statements from 1 - 5 over here
these are the statements 1 - 5
with the ideas or names
in the box from A - G.
Ok, you can see that over here
These are the names or ideas in the box. So, the statements are going to be
paraphrased
these statements over here, so try to locate their meanings in the text and not
their exact
same words. Another thing you can do that would help
is to scan where exactly in the text each name or idea
over here from A - G
appears and read this information carefully
and then decide which of the statements match
this information in the text.
Ok, now about "matching headings".
Some of you have already told me that you tend to make more mistakes
in this kind of task: matching headings. Basically, you have to match
each paragraph of the reading passage
with a heading and the headings are going to be more than you need and this is what
makes this task a little bit more difficult
or demanding. Ok, let's go and have a look at a "matching headings"
task and let's hope that this will help you a little bit more.
So, again there will be more options than you need
as you can see here and this is what makes this task
pretty difficult. So, the options are going to be similar in meanings
so you have to be able to recognize the heading
that best represents the overall content
of each paragraph; the gist of each paragraph as a whole
and not just one sentence or two in it. So, sometimes a heading
from over here--as you can see
they all talk about sources of energy more or less--so
sometimes a heading may use the same words
as mentioned in the text but doesn't refer
to the main theme of the whole paragraph. It is mentioned,
the words are mentioned, by the way, in 1 or 2 lines
not as a main theme of the discussion so
in this task scan the whole paragraph but
pay attention to the details in the headings for example
let's take this heading over here
"Thermal energy in agriculture"
okay the whole paragraph
now should describe clearly, without any doubt or confusion,
thermal energy and its use
in agriculture. If the paragraph mentions briefly
"agriculture" for example, then
this might not be the correct heading. So,
always always always pay attention to the main discussion
of the paragraph; the main theme of the paragraph
don't let the usage of same words both in the text
and in the headings confuse you: don't let that confuse you
always concentrate on what the paragraph as a whole is about
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