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Missing Word Jigsaw
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Aim:
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to develop students' paraphrasing/defining skills
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Target Audience:
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students
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Relevance to KET:
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Reading and Writing, Parts 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7
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Organisation:
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pairs
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Materials needed:
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worksheets given here, or your own
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- Play Paraphrasing Warmer
first, to teach students the principle behind this activity.
- Then put students in pairs, facing each other. Ask students
in each pair to decide who is A and who is B.
- Give the As the A handout and the Bs the B handout. Tell them
not to look at each others' paper.
- Explain that where they see a gap, their partner will help them
fill it by explaining the missing word to them. Their partner
will not say the exact word. Underlined words in the text show
where their partner has a gap, and they must explain these words
to their partner in the same way.
- Go round listening and helping as necessary.
- During feedback, discuss which words were difficult to explain
and why.
Alternative Procedure
Divide students into two groups, A on one side of the room and
B on the other. Give out the handouts. Explain the task as in point
4. Then ask each group to work out the paraphrases together, orally.
When they are ready, ask each A to find a B and then do the activity.
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