Paraphrase Quiz

Aim:	to give students practice in locating/recognizing paraphrases
Target Audience:	students
Relevance to IELTS:	Academic Reading
Organisation:	teams of three or four
Materials needed:	an article from a magazine or newspaper

1. Select a list of words and phrases from the article and prepare paraphrases for them, choosing items that suit the level of your students. (For an easier version, underline all the target phrases in the text; make sure that you read the paraphrases out in random order!) Give students a copy of the article.
   
   
2. Divide your students into teams of three or four.
   
   
3. Ask the teams to choose a team name.
   
   
4. Write the team names across the top of the board and draw a column for each team.
   
   
5. Explain to the students that they will hear a word or phrase similar in meaning to a word or phrase in an article.
   
   
6. Tell them that they can win a mark for their team by correctly locating the word or phrase in the article.
   
   
7. Tell them that they must not call the target word or phrase out, but must raise their hands when they think they have located it.
   
   
8. Give the copies of the article out and allow students 2 minutes to glance through it.
   
   
9. Read the paraphrases out in random order, awarding a mark to the first team to locate the target words or phrases.