Formative Reading Route: Gap Questions

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• Leerjaar 5

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Formative Reading Route

Gap Questions & Open questions

Learning Goal

• Lesson 1
• I know how to answer multiple choice gap questions (regular vocabulary) successfully.
  
  

Learning Goal

• Lesson 1
• I know how to answer multiple choice gap questions (regular vocabulary) successfully.
• I know what steps to take to tackle multiple choice gap questions (regular vocabulary).

Learning Goal

• Lesson 1
• I know how to answer multiple choice gap questions (regular vocabulary) successfully.
• I know what steps to take to tackle multiple choice gap questions (regular vocabulary).
• Lesson 2

• I know how to answer an open question. 

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.
   
2. Read the part of the text after the gap.

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.
   
2. Read the part of the text after the gap.

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.
   
2. Read the part of the text after the gap.
   
3. What kind of word is missing (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition).

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.
   
2. Read the part of the text after the gap.
   
3. What kind of word is missing (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition).
   
4. Write down the word (or words) which you believe fits the gap best.

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.
   
2. Read the part of the text after the gap.
   
3. What kind of word is missing (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition).
   
4. Write down the word (or words) which you believe fits the gap best.
   
5. Compare your own option with the answers given (a,b,c,d?).

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.
   
2. Read the part of the text after the gap.
   
3. What kind of word is missing (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition).
   
4. Write down the word (or words) which you believe fits the gap best.
   
5. Compare your own option with the answers given (a,b,c,d?).
   
6. Select the answer which resembles your own answer the most.

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before the gap.
   
2. Read the part of the text after the gap.
   
3. What kind of word is missing (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition).
   
4. Write down the word (or words) which you believe fits the gap best.
   
5. Compare your own option with the answers given (a,b,c,d?).
   
6. Select the answer which resembles your own answer the most.
   
7. If you can’t find find a matching answer, start the process again.
   

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before 

the gap.                                                 

                                  

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before 

the gap.                                                 

2. Read the part of the text after   

the gap.                                                

                                    

Steps

1. Read the part of the text before 

the gap.                                                 

2. Read the part of the text after   

the gap.                                                

3. What kind of word is missing     

(noun, verb, adjective, adverb,  

preposition).                                      

What kind of word is missing
(noun, verb, adjective, adverb,
preposition).

1. noun
2. verb
3. adjective / adverb
4. preposition

Steps

4.  Write down the word (or words)

which you believe fits the gap   

best.                                                       

Write down the word (or words) which
you believe fits the gap best.

Steps

5. Compare your own option with the answers given.

Steps

5. Compare your own option with the answers given.

6. Select the answer which resembles your own answer the most.

Gap text - practice

• Now answer the gap questions of the 'Billy Elliot' text .
• Make sure you follow the steps practised!

Billy Elliot

After the novel Billy Elliot (written by Lee Hall) the movie has made heroes of boy ballet dancers. All those ballet classes make a man of you, discovers

Cosmo Landesman

The movie meant the arrival of a new and unlikely hero called Billy Elliot, whose only crime is that he is an 11-year-old boy who wants to do ballet. But to Billy’s dad, a miner on strike during the turbulent year of 1984, there is only one thing more disgusting than a ‘scab’ who crosses a picket line (a strike breaker) and that is a son who wants to do a pirouette in public.

What are the realities of life for boys who do ballet? The actor who plays Billy, Jamie Bell, says that when he was eight he used to ‘get hassle’ from lads at school, who kept saying: “Jamie, you shouldn’t be doing that, it’s for girls.

Bell’s solution was simple: he would ___1____ dance classes after football practice.

Billy Elliot

After the novel Billy Elliot (written by Lee Hall) the movie has made heroes of boy ballet dancers. All those ballet classes make a man of you, discovers (Cosmo Landesman)

The movie meant the arrival of a new and unlikely hero called Billy Elliot, whose only crime is that he is an 11-year-old boy who wants to do ballet. But to Billy’s dad, a miner on strike during the turbulent year of 1984, there is only one thing more disgusting than a ‘scab’ who crosses a picket line (a strike breaker) and that is a son who wants to do a pirouette in public.

What are the realities of life for boys who do ballet? The actor who plays Billy, Jamie Bell, says that when he was eight he used to ‘get hassle’ from lads at school, who kept saying: “Jamie, you shouldn’t be doing that, it’s for girls.

Bell’s solution was simple: he would ___1____ dance classes after football practice.

Question 1

1. dream about
2. refuse to go to
3. sneak off to

Jane Devine, a former pupil and now press officer of the Royal Ballet Company, paints a pain-free picture of boys doing ballet at her school. “Attitudes have definitely changed,” she says. “Fifty years ago it would have been very rare to find boys at the Royal Ballet. We now have about 200 pupils and 67 of them are boys.” I spoke to two of them, Guy Fletcher, 17, from Israel, and Paul Kay, 16, from Newton Abbot in Devon. 

To my surprise, neither had ever faced much prejudice or disapproval. Paul, who began dancing at eight, said that when he first started dancing he was teased a bit, “but these days boys doing ballet is ____2____   ”.  

Question 2

1. exceptional
2. no big deal
3. outdated
4. still not accepted

But then I talked to Gillian Quinn from Whitley Bay, in Tyne on Wear, who has been teaching ballet for 45 years and has plenty of painful tales. “I had a pupil from a nearby mining town, and his family were miners. I once saw him walking down the street. He dropped his bag and his ballet shoes fell out. I saw the panic on his face. He was terrified that someone would ___3 ______.” 

Question 3

1. find out his secret
2. pick them up
3. steal them from him
4. tell me about it

Yet how are we to explain the fact that more boys are taking up ballet? The answer is simple: ballet is losing its aura of unmanliness and acquiring a new gloss of athleticism. Every boy, man and teacher I talked to was anxious to point out the incredible physical challenge it poses. Ballet boys are on the whole not pale, sensitive types who prefer poetry to sport. Most of them are ___4____    who live and breathe football, rugby or gymnastics.    

Question 4

1. dedicated sportsmen
2. feminine guys
3. former athletes
4. skilful coaches

How, I wonder, in our age of laddism do young boys get interested in ballet in the first place? I discovered that an entire generation of male dancers had emerged for one simple reason: they were dragged off by their parents to watch their sisters do ballet and 90% of them thought: ‘I can do better than that.’ The film’s success has already affected the life of one man I talked to. Simon Perry, 37, lives in Cardiff and works for the Inland Revenue. He was dragged off to do ballet at the age of six, but has kept this fact a secret from his friends and workmates for most of his life. 

Now he has a new confidence. “We were discussing Billy Elliot this week and I admitted that I had done ballet,” he said. “

  _____ 5____    once upon a time I would have got stick, all of them now said, ‘well done’ and ‘good on you’. They wonder how a 37-year-old lump like me could ever have got into a pair of tights. And so do l.”

Quizvraag 5

1. Just as
2. Since
3. While

PART 2

Open Questions

Steps for Open Questions

1. Answer a question in short and concise Dutch.

Steps for Open Questions

1. Answer a question in short and concise Dutch.

2. Read the question and the answer again to make sure you really answered the question.

Steps for Open Questions

1. Answer a question in short and concise Dutch.

2. Read the question and the answer again to make sure you really answered the question.

3. Limit your answer to what is being asked. If a first reason is asked and you give more, only the reason counts.

Steps for Open Questions

1. Answer a question in short and concise Dutch.

2. Read the question and the answer again to make sure you really answered the question.

3. Limit your answer to what is being asked. If a first reason is asked and you give more, only the reason counts.

4. Stick to the maximum number of words.

Steps for Open Questions

1. Answer a question in short and concise Dutch.

2. Read the question and the answer again to make sure you really answered the question.

3. Limit your answer to what is being asked. If a first reason is asked and you give more, only the reason counts.

4. Stick to the maximum number of words.

5. When quoting, write down the first 2 and the last 2 words. These do not necessarily have to be whole sentences, they can also be pieces of sentence.