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  • hello everyone, welcome to my channel

  • 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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  • very much for watching

  • Good luck with the exam!

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