Strategies fro tackling comprehension OE/MCQ

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Strategies fro tackling comprehension OE/MCQ

• 1) 1st reading get main idea
• Eg This passage is about the writers trip to his
  hometown in India.

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1-2-3 to better comprehension

• 2) Focus on the questions one at a time
• 1 Identify the type of question(5 WH 1H)
• 2 Identify the tense need to answer in the same
  tense
• 3 Identify the key information asked for
  underline it in text or use symbol õ õ

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Strategies for tackling Comprehension OE

• Question specific
• Steps 1-2-3
• 1) Read the question carefully identify question
  type
• 2)Tense
• 3)Identify key information the question requires,
  use symbol õ õ or underline

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Strategies for tackling Comprehension OE

• ----Read over the text and find information
  relevant to the question. (Information is before
  or after key information found)
• Write down the question number next to that
  information.

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Sample questions

• Why has skydiving become a popular sport ?

3)Information underline key words
Check Tense
Reason
2) Tense
1)Type
Ans It is exciting and fun.
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Sample text

• Skydiving has become a popular sport. This is
  because it is exciting and fun ! When you
  skydive, you jump from an airplane with an
  attached parachute.

Reason is after the information.
Look for information in text
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Sample questions

• Where do you jump from ?

Tense
Place
Information
Ans You jump from an airplane.
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Text

• Skydiving has become a popular sport. This is
  because it is exciting and fun ! When you
  skydive, you jump from an airplane with an
  attached parachute.

information
Place
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3 different type of questions

• Content questions answers are located in the
  passage
• Higher order questions --Inference answers are
  located between the lines require U-P.
  U(You--you read between lines, guess ) and P
  (passage, answer hinted at)
• Opinion questions answers in your head

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1 Type of question

• Who is .?
• (give information about a person-could be name or
  relationship to other people)
• Eg Qn Who is the boy in the house ?
• Ans His name is Jake and he is
• Jennys son.

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1-Type of question

• What was?
• (You need to give a description)
• Eg Qn What was the house like ?
• Ans It was a small house that needed
• repair.

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1-Type of question

• Where was ?
• (You need to give information about a place. This
  could be the name of the place or where it was
  located)
• Eg Qn Where was the boy born ?
• Ans He was born in the house.

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1- Type of question

• When did?
• ( You need to give information about a time. This
  could be an exact time of the day, a month or a
  season. It could also be information about an
  action.)
• Eg Qn When did they leave ?
• Ans They left the house in winter.

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1-Type of question

• How did?
• (You need to explain a process or a procedure ie
  the manner in which something is done)
• Eg Qn How did the boy manage to get
• home ?
• Ans He started walking at first and then he
  had a lift from a kind farmer.

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1-Type of question

• Why is ?
• (Give reason or an explanation)
• Qn Why did the zoo-keepers whoop in sheer
• delight ?
• X Because. (connector)
• Ans Sheba had just given birth to a baby cub.
  
• (Give reason directly and in a complete sentence)

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1-Opinion questions

• In your opinion?
• Why do you think?
• Would your attitude?
• Would you have?
• Explain clearlywhat you think

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1-Opinion questions

• You need to write your opinion BUT you must give
  information from the text as evidence for your
  opinion.

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Points to note

• Remember
• Answer in complete sentences all the time.
• So that. (X)
• To make sure that. (X)
• Because (X)

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COMPREHENSION

• How was the stick useful to the author ? List two
  ways.
• Give two reasons why
• It was used as a torchlight and as a form of
  support. (v )
• 1. torchlight. 2. support (X)
• A/B , bullets dashes (X)

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Strategy for difficult vocabulary

• Difficult vocabulary words
• - Infer the meaning of the words and phrases by
  reading the sentence/s before or after the
  word/phrase (contextual clues)

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Strategy for difficult vocabulary

• Look at the way the word is put together
• extraordinary
• Sound out the word
• roar

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Other strategies

• He was a very zzzz man.
• Read the next sentence. He was a very zzzz man.
  He was always arriving late and making excuses
  for not doing his share of work.

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Other strategies

• Read the previous sentence
• We had to do more than our fair sahre of work
  because of Fred. He was a very zzzz man.

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Other strategies

• Look for examples which explain what the word
  means
• He was a very zzzz man. For example, he always
  had to leave the room where there was work to do
  and had hundreds of reasons for going home early.

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Other strategies

• Look for a comparison (like, similar, the same,
  as , etc)
• He was a zzzz man. Just like his sister, he
  avoided work as often as possible.

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Other strategies

• Look for a contrast (but, however, on the other
  hand, etc)
• Most of us did our fair share of the work, but he
  was a very zzzz man.

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Questions involving quoting words/phrases or
sentences from the passage

• When you are asked to quote a word, make sure you
  just write one word.

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Questions that involve quoting from the passage

• 3) Which sentence in the passage tells you
  that ?
• X Eventually Sheba did teach her cub to swim.
• ?The sentence is Eventually . .
• ?It is Eventually . .

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COMPREHENSION

• Which word? The word is
• Which phrase? The phrase is
• Which sentence ? The sentence is
• Which two-word phrase tells us ?
• The phrase is (v )
• The two-word phrase is (v )
• The two words are ___ and ___. (X)
• The two-word phrase are ___ ___ and ___
  ___. (X)

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COMPREHENSION

• Use of the word Quote.
• Eg Quote two words from Para 1 which (Each
  word is found in a different sentence.)
• The two words are ___ and ___. (v )
• They are ___ and ___. (v )
• They are ___ ___. (X)
• They are ___ and ___. (X)

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COMPREHENSION

• Quote the phrase which . (means the
  same as Which phrase)
• The phrase is .
• Quote the sentence which (means
  the same as Which sentence)
• The sentence is

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Questions that ask for meaning or synonyms

• Considered as own answer questions
• The rough idea is given in the passage.
• YOU have to use your own inference skills to
  arrive at the answer

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Questions involving refer to

• 2) What does this in line 1 refer to ?
• X This refers to
• ?It refers to
• ?The word this refers to

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COMPREHENSION

• What does it refer to?
• It refers to
• What does the word thing refer to ?
• It refers to (v )
• The word thing refers to (v )
• thing refers to (X)
• Thing refers to (X)
• It means (X)

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COMPREHENSION

• Dont look elsewhere if the question specifically
  asks for answers from (say) lines 6 to 11 or
  from Paragraph 2 for example. Go to these
  part(s).
• The end