Text 2: The Meaning of dreams

Task type 2: Matching Sentence Endings

The focus in this activity is to identify the suitable sentece ending for each sentence beginning to report the writer's views and claims made in the text.

Introduction

Definition

This task tests your ability to identify the views of the writer and the claims made in a text. It is often used to test your understanding of a passage in which the writer is presenting an argument or where different ideas about a subject are compared and analysed.

Method

There is a set of sentences and there are also different sentence endings. Your job is to read the text and decide which of the options completes each of the numbered sentences. The complete sentence must report the ideas and information from the passage exactly

The Basic Rules for the Matching Sentence Endings Task

  • The numbered sentence beginnings follow the order of information in the passage.

  • The options are in random order. There are more options than you need to answer all the questions.

  • The wording of the sentence beginnings and options is not exactly the same as the wording in the passage, but they contain information and ideas from the text.

  • The sentence beginnings include some words and names that are used in the text. These help you to find the relevant section.

  • Read this section carefully and then decide which of the sentence endings exactly reports the writer's views and claims.

  • All the options create grammatically correct sentences, but only one of the endings creates a sentence that reports the exact meaning.

Skills-building exercises

Practice

Pre-reading Text

Schema Activation
  1. How do we call what comes to our minds while sleeping?

  2. Do you believe that dreams try to tell us something?

  3. Do you look for the interpretation of your dream when you get up?

Warming-up :

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While-reading Text

Read the text and answer the questions

Post-reading Text

KWL Strategy

What I know

What I want to know

What I learnt

Story-telling

Tell your classmates the story of a dream that you had already and its interpretation.

Self-evaluation

Which statement best describes how you feel about matching sentence endings task ?

  • I feel confident about doing Yes/No/Not Given task

  • I did OK, but I still need to do more work on Yes/No/Not Given tasks

  • I need more practice with Yes/No/Not Given tasks. I need to focus on ...