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The document provides strategies and tips for completing summary tasks effectively, emphasizing the importance of skimming for general meaning and scanning for specific information. It suggests predicting answers, identifying grammatical needs, and recognizing synonyms to enhance comprehension. The process involves careful reading, narrowing down options, and ensuring grammatical correctness for each answer.

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Reading 02

The document provides strategies and tips for completing summary tasks effectively, emphasizing the importance of skimming for general meaning and scanning for specific information. It suggests predicting answers, identifying grammatical needs, and recognizing synonyms to enhance comprehension. The process involves careful reading, narrowing down options, and ensuring grammatical correctness for each answer.

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02.

Summary Completion (Reading)


Skills tested
 Skim the summary for general meaning.

 Scan the text for specific information.

 Identify key words.

 Recognise synonyms & paraphrasing.

 Use context to make predictions.

Tips

1. Try to predict the answers before you look at the options or the
text. This will help you spot the correct answer.
2. Should the gap be filled with a verb, noun, adjective or adverb?
If your answer makes the sentence grammatically wrong, then
you have the wrong answer.
3. Look for synonyms and paraphrases in the text rather than
words that directly match.
4. Don’t spend too much time looking for the answer to one
question. If you can’t find it, mark what you think it might be
and move on. Focusing on the easier answers is a better use of
your time.
5. The answers normally come in the same order as the questions.
6. If you get a list of words, think about the ones that can’t be the
correct answer because of meaning or grammar. You can then
eliminate these words.
Strategy
# 1 Carefully read the instructions taking particular note of where
you should get the missing words from – a word list or the text. If it’s
the text, note the word limit for your answer, e.g. no more than two.

# 2 Skim read the summary to get a general understanding of what


it’s about.

# 3 Next, read the summary in more detail and try to predict the type
of word needed to fill each gap, e.g. verb, noun, adjective, and what
that word might be. Don’t spend too long on this but it will save you
time later if you do it.

# 4 If the question includes a list of words, see if you can guess any
answers. You may be able to narrow it down to 2 or 3. There will be
others that will obviously be wrong.

# 5 The summary will normally relate to one section of the text,


probably 2-3 paragraphs. Your next job is to identify this.

Pick out a few key words from the summary to scan for. Names,
numbers, places or dates are ideal if there are any in the summary as
these will be easy to spot. Remember that synonyms could be used.
When you’ve made your selection, scan the text for them.

# 6 Read the first sentence of the summary with a gap in it. Try to
work out what form of word will fit, e.g. an adjective, the past tense
of a verb, a countable noun. You may even be able to predict the
missing word itself or a synonym.

# 7 Identify one or two key words and scan the section of text for
them, watching out for synonyms and paraphrasing.

# 8 When you’ve found the part of the text with the answer in, read
it in detail to identify the word you need, either in the text itself or
from the word list.
# 9 Check your answer to ensure that the sentence is grammatically
correct.

# 10 Repeat this process for the rest of the missing words.

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