Read and Complete, Read and Select
Two quick tasks that test vocabulary and spelling.
12 minutes · A free lesson from Reading
Read and Complete: a paragraph where some words are missing their final letters. You type the letters.
Read and Select: a grid of real and made-up words. You select only the real English words, quickly.
Lesson quiz
Check what you have learned. Choose an answer to see whether it is right, and why.
Quick check: In Read and Select, what do you choose?
- Every word you have seen before
- The longest words
- Only the real English words
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C: Only the real English words — Fake words that look almost real are there to catch you.
Quick check: You are not sure whether a word is real. What should you do?
- Select it anyway
- Leave it: a fake word counts against you
- Select every word
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B: Leave it: a fake word counts against you — Trust your instinct, but do not guess.
Quick check: In Read and Complete, what tells you the missing letters?
- The grammar and the topic of the paragraph
- The first letter of the paragraph
- The number of sentences
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A: The grammar and the topic of the paragraph — Read the whole paragraph first.
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