YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 6 Teachers Notes

Description This activity gives students practice in sentence matching in preparation for doing multiple choice activities. In a second lesson, students practise doing an exam task. Time required: Materials required: Lesson 1: 15 minutes; Lesson 2: 20 minutes Students Worksheet, one copy for each student Sample Task (one copy for each student): Page 35 of YLE Sample papers downloaded from the website: https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/examsforschools/ylemovers to introduce students to Part 6 of the Movers Reading & Writing paper and to the task type to focus students on the place of grammatical words in sentences

Aims:

Procedure Lesson 1 1. Write the word Elephants on the board and elicit what students can tell you about them. Accept any information. It doesnt matter if the information is the same as in the texts they are going to read or not. This will help them to understand what they are going to read. 2. Tell students they are going to read some information about elephants. Give out the Students Worksheet and ask students to fold the page in half vertically along the line in the middle of the page. Students now read the sentence halves in column A. With a partner, they think about how the sentences might be finished. They should try to use the clues in the language to help them. Feed back some ideas to the whole class, focussing attention on the language clues. See key below. 3. Now ask students to unfold their worksheets. They can now see the second halves to the sentences. However, these are not in the right order. Students must try to match the two halves. 4. Tell students to read all the sentence halves before they start. They should read silently and complete the task on their own. After about four minutes, put students into pairs for them to check their work. After another two minutes put pairs together for a final check. 5. Check answers with the class. Elicit from students what new information they learnt about elephants from reading the text. 6. Students write the complete text in their notebooks.

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Lesson 2 7. Hand out Sample Task to each student. Give them time to look at the task. Elicit what the title of the text is (Cats) and what they can see in the pictures (cats). Tell the students to read the text quickly through and to tell you how many types of cats they can find in the text (lions, tigers). Using the title and pictures and reading through the text once before they try to answer any questions are very good exam strategies for this part. 8. Students read the instructions for the task. Check they know what they have to do (complete the text by choosing one word from the three options given for each gap). 9. Ask students to find a coloured pencil. They should read the text more carefully and try to complete the gaps without looking at the words on the right. You may want them to fold the task in half or cover one side with a book so they cant look at the options. They should write their guesses in their coloured pencil. When they have finished, they can compare with a partner. Monitor, and elicit that, just as when they were working on the text about elephants, they need to think about the clues that the text gives them and to read the words before and after the gap. Dont give any more information at this stage. 10. Now ask students to find a different coloured pencil and to focus on the words on the right of the text (the three options for each gap). Students complete the task, without reading the text aloud. Give them a maximum of ten minutes. For the Reading & Writing Test, its important to train students to get used to a limited amount of time for each part, as in the test they need to manage the time themselves. 11. When they have finished, students check and discuss their answers in groups of three or four. They should read their whole texts through to see if it sounds right. compare their guesses with their final answers check if their friends have copied the words clearly and correctly, and remind them that they must do this in the test.

12. Check answers with the class. First ask whether anyone left any gap blank, and remind them that if they really dont know the answer they should make a guess. They cant get a mark for writing nothing, but they wont lose a mark if their answer is wrong. When going through the answers, focus on how they knew which word was correct and why they decided others were incorrect. See key below.

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YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 6 Answer Keys

Key to Procedure steps Step 2 1. parts is followed by of..; live must be followed by a place where elephants live 2. kinds of is followed by a plural noun 3. the comparative smaller in the first part needs to be followed by than in the second; 4. the first part needs to be followed by a plural verb 5. we say use(sth) to + infinitive. The second part of the sentence in this example includes the infinitive help 6. the adjective heavy needs to be followed by a plural noun 7. the second part of the sentence could either be a noun (which it is in this example) or a clause with to + infinitive or verb + ing; 8. live is usually followed by in + a clause, as in this example

Step 12 and Sample task: question 1 2 3 4 5 answer All are in their like reasons All is followed by a plural noun, the other two by singular nouns There can be followed by is or are, but in this example are is correct, because the predicate is plural (small cats) live can be followed by the prepositions in or on but not by at. In this example in is correct as the place mentioned is the jungle the possessive adjective their refers back to people in general People is a plural noun. The verb that follows is must be in the plural: like and in the present tense, and the text is talking about general truths

Key to Students Worksheet 1 1 5 g e 2 6 d a 3 7 h c 4 8 b f

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YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 6 Students Worksheet

Match these sentence halves. Then write the text in your notebook.

A 1. Elephants live in different parts 2. There are two kinds of 3. Asian elephants have smaller ears 4. African elephants 5. People use Asian elephants 6. They can carry very heavy 7. But African elephants dont like 8. They live a) trees.

b) are bigger and more dangerous. c) people. d) elephants, the Asian elephant and the African elephant. e) to help them with work. f) in family groups in very big parks. g) of the world. h) than their African cousins.

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YLE Movers Reading & Writing Part 6 Sample Task

(Original can be found on Page 35 of the Sample Papers, which can be downloaded from https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/exams/examsforschools/ylemovers)

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