What it is: A text has numbered gaps. You choose the right word for each gap from a list. The list has extra words.
The instruction on the paper: Choisissez un mot approprié de la liste pour remplir chaque blanc dans le texte suivant. → Choose a suitable word from the list to fill each gap in the following text.
Example: Choisissez un mot approprié de la liste.: Le samedi, Chloé travaille comme bénévole dans un refuge pour chiens. Le matin, elle nourrit les animaux et nettoie les cages. L’après-midi, elle promène les chiens dans la forêt. Ce travail est fatigant et elle n’est pas payée ; [ – 1 – ], elle ne changerait pour rien au monde.
Choisissez un mot approprié de la liste pour remplir chaque blanc dans le texte suivant.
[ – 1 – ]
A. pourtant
B. donc
C. d’abord
D. parce que
Answer
Step by step
- un blanc
- a gap
- remplir
- to fill
- pourtant
- however, yet
- donc
- so, therefore
- d’abord
- first
- car
- because
Remember: Read the sentence before and after the gap. Each word in the list fits one gap only.
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Fill the gap
1
Read around the gap
The sentence before and after.
2
Decide the type
A link word? A verb? A noun?
3
Try each option
Read the sentence with it.
4
Cross out used words
Each word fits one gap only.
Around → Type → Try → Cross out
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Example: three gaps: Le recyclage, c’est facile ! [ – 1 – ], on trie ses déchets à la maison. [ – 2 – ], on les dépose dans les bonnes poubelles. Le verre va dans la poubelle verte, [ – 3 – ] le papier va dans la bleue.
Choisissez un mot approprié de la liste pour remplir chaque blanc dans le texte suivant.
A. d’abord
B. ensuite
C. alors que
D. pourtant
E. car
Answer
Step by step
Do
- Read before and after the gap.
- Check the word type fits.
- Cross out words you use.
Don't
- Choose a word because it looks familiar.
- Use one word twice.
- Leave a gap empty.