What is a M.C. Cloze?

Section C – Reading and Language System

A M.C. Cloze … M.C. Questions Asking for a word or a phrase So it is mostly asking for vocabulary and gr

ammar in context

But still, we have to know•Writer’s purpose (from title, source to know the choice of vocabulary•Situation (from topic) to understand the context

Developing M.C. Cloze Skills

The objective is to recreate a meaningful text by choosing the best option to fill in the blank.

We search for meaning, not just a word.

It is a search for a word that has the right meaning in the context in which it is used.

What to do?

1. Look at the title and the sourcestyle and language

2. Then, a quick skimming of the passagegeneral idea of the context

*1st reading* Do not look at the options yet

3. 2nd readinga. Look at the context of the missing

wordsb. If the missing word is a vocabulary

negative meaning?positive meaning?

c. What kind of word? Verb (tense)? Noun? (Singular? Plural?) Form (Gerunds? Infinitives?) Relative Pronoun? Preposition?

d. Look at the options – guessing and elimination

Any more clues?•Context (identify the clues by context) (justify the choice as a result of the clues)•Should very often be an immediate context (exception though)•Locate grammatical and discourse markers to anticipate the correct words and form of that word)

How many different types of questions?

Most of them are testing students’ knowledge of how one particular word is used

Others are on how the word functioned in a phrase

* What to do with the combined MC questions?

E.g. A. I only B. II only C. I & III only D. All of the above 1. check I first 2. if I is correct, eliminate all choices that d

o not have I ( x A, x C) 3. check IV first 4. if IV is correct, then only D is correct..