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HANDLING CLOZE EXERCISE

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HANDLING CLOZE EXERCISE

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    1. HANDLING CLOZE EXERCISE

    2. CLOZE EXERCISE A cloze exercise is a passage with blank spaces that require filling in of missing words. Continues:

    3. The following are the commonest missing words (i.e. parts of speech) Nouns Pronouns Verbs Adverbs Adjectives Prepositions Conjunctions Continues

    4. EXAMPLE CLOZE EXERCISE SUNFLOWER GROWING IN ZAMBIA Fill in the missing words in the passage below: Sunflower__(1) always been grown__(2) commercial farmers.Its cultivation by small-scale and emergent farmers has increased in __(3) years.It is grown __(4) in the Eastern, Southern,Central and Lusaka Provinces.Most of the seeds are used for the production of edible oils__(5) for cattle feed. Sunflower-seed oil is valued because of its properties in lowering blood cholesterol. A large percentage of __(6) oil is processed for cooking oil and for the manufacture of __(7).

    5. INSTRUCTION Write down your best guesses then move to the next slide to see the answers. (Click the back arrow to see the exercise again.)

    6. CLOZE EXERCISE ANSWERS Words Parts Of Speech has Verb by Preposition recent Adjective mainly Adverb and Conjunction this Pronoun Margarine Noun

    7. OBSERVATION 1 The cloze exercise is based on the seven parts of speech namely: verbs, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, pronouns and nouns.

    8. OBSERVATION 2 Words in sentences are related horizontally. For instance, the sentence: sunflower has always been grown by commercial farmers. The underlined words are related horizontally. Grown is a verb whereas by a preposition. Therefore, to find a missing word identify the word relationships in each sentence as shown above.

    9. OBSERVATION 3 Words in sentences are also related vertically. For instance, the sentence: A large percentage of this oil is processed for cooking oil and for the manufacture of margarine. Note that the underlined word margarine is not the only product of sunflower-seed oil. This explains why some blank spaces in a cloze exercise could have more than one possible answer e.g. margarine. The vertical relationship of words in sentences makes the options possible.

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