OK everyone.
So let's go ahead and go through with how to do a matching question and we're looking at reading passage
one.
This is from the Cambridge Book Number 8 which again is one of the books that I teach from what I teach
my classes and it's one of the books and I'm using to teach this online class to you.
I encourage you to go out and get the book because you can't get the book from this course.
You have to go out and get the book on your own you know and I encourage you to go get it because it's
very good.
There are the best books to use.
So that's what I recommend.
All right.
All right so we're doing a matching question as I told you earlier.
As I told you earlier with a matching question what do you have to do with the matching question is
you are you have to look at the words in a box and then pick which one of the which one of the questions
matches the language that is found for that for that word in the box.
So it's a very it's a very easy to easy question understand in terms of strategy.
The biggest challenge is you have to read this sentence in the passage and then find the parallels that
are no match to one of the questions.
So that's the that's the real challenge.
It's the same two things over and over and over again.
Finding loci in the sentence understanding it picked a synonym match.
OK.
That's the same thing that they're testing over and over and over again.
And that's what you have to be aware of when it comes to doing its reading comprehension.
OK.
So now if you notice with this set of questions as interest article I'm going to go off on a little
sidebar.
You see the first set of questions here is a paragraph location question is which are the which is which
paragraph contains the following information like 1 2 3 4.
So this question appears first just before the match in question.
But when I'm doing this I'm not you don't like I've told you you don't do the paragraph location question
first.
OK because it doesn't go in order.
And if you try to try try to do it first you're going to end up reading the whole reading passage and
wasting all your time.
OK.
So we wouldn't do the paragraph location question first.
All right well we what we would do is we look at numbers 1 2 3 and 4 and circle the key words in each
one like timekeeping and cold temperatures explanation of the importance of geography and a calendar
and farming pendulum clock really good and simultaneous efforts to calculate time and uniform hours.
So I would circle those keywords for the paragraph location question and then I will leave it.
Don't do it right now.
Leave it.
OK.
And then you want to do your matching question.
Here's our matching question right here.
And we also have a diagram question.
So if you would if you had a passage like this to have this set of questions paragraph gravel location
matching and diagram do your batching question Do your diagram question as you're doing your matching
on your diagram question look out for those keywords from the questions for the paragraph location because
then is going to make it much easier to come back and do that question much much easier to come back
and do that question.
All right because we went ahead and we circled our key words for each one and then we know what to look
for.
OK.
So let's go ahead and move to our matching question and here we go.
We have four questions five six seven eight and we have six names in the box.
OK.
So that means two of the names don't belong OK.
Two of the names don't belong.
All right.
Now for this one it doesn't tell us that we can use a name more than once.
No it doesn't.
It doesn't say it doesn't when it wouldn't.
If you could use a name more than once.
It will tell you.
OK.
That's how you that's the answer to that question.
So if you could use Babylonians twice if you use a twice you would see in the instructions up here it
would say you may use the letter more than what it would say.
OK.
So because it doesn't say that.
OK the rule is you can't use a name more than once.
All right.
Understand for duty free to use for you to use a letter more than once it has to explicitly say you
have permission and the ability to do so.
All right.
That's that's what that means and that's how we have to interpret that.
OK.
All right so.
So we have we have our our names here Babylonians Egyptians what we have to do.
Go five Babylonians read the sentence where we see Babylonians and then see if the if the information
in the sentence where we see it Babylonians is a match for five six seven or eight and the good thing
is these are the words in a box going to be easy to find proper nouns easy to find.
Well OK here's the Babylonians right here.
And actually as I'm scanning down we see Egyptians right here.
OK.
All right.
So here is Babylonians right here.
Says read the sentence.
Do a quick check to see and see.
We have Egyptians twice.
There's Greeks there as Romans.
There's Germany there's French France there's England.
I see all the names that Elsy Babylonians again.
I know it's going to be this right here.
All right.
So this is a courting I'm starting right here in Paragraph A.
All right.
According to the archaeological evidence at least five thousand years ago.
How long before the advent of the Roman Empire the Babylonians began to measure time introducing calendars
to coordinate communal activities to plan the shipment of goods and in particular to regularly planting
and harvesting.
All right.
So this is the Babylonians right here.
The Babylonians began to measure time introducing calendars to coordinate communal activities.
So they introduced calendars to communicate to coordinate activities to plan the shipment of goods and
in particular to regulate planting and harvesting
so us look and see that's a match for anything they devise a calendar where the months were equal we
saw nothing about being equal divide the day into two equal halves.
Nope they develop a new cabinet shake a time keeper.
Nope.
They created a calendar to organize public events and work schedules.
That's a match that's a match to coordinate community activities.
They're synonym for organizing public events and they were taught about regulating planting and harvesting.
That's the same thing as having a calendar for work schedules.
So number eight We're number eight.
We know that the answer is a so and our answer sheet what our answer sheet we would put the we will
put a as our answer for number eight.
All right so now let's go look and see what it says for Egyptian's.
Here's Egyptian's right here.
All right.
So the Egyptians had formulated here paragraphs the first sentence paragraphs the first sentence.
The Egyptians had formulated a municipal calendar having 12 months of 30 days with five days added to
the approximate solar year.
So they had 12 months of 30 days.
Now if we look at the other sentence with Egyptians It says the cosmic significance the Egyptians placed
in the 12 deacons led them to develop a system in which each interval of Darkness was divided into a
dozen equal parts.
All right so 12 months 30 days.
So they divide it into equal parts.
Then we can see that that is a match for because we saw it earlier they devise a civil calendar in which
the months were equal only.
All right so we're number five on our answer sheet.
We will put a sorry for number five for our answer sheet.
We will put B for Egyptians.
Now keep in mind a reading comprehension you have to put your answers on the answer sheet right away.
OK.
Yes.
With your answers on the answer sheet right away because at the end of reading it's over.
It's not like listening where they give you time.
They give you time afterwards to be able to to mark your answers.
OK.
So mark your answers right away.
All right.
Look at Grieg's.
We already saw all the wants to see temporal hours which were years Greeks right here everyone right
here.
Greeks several hours which were first adopted by the Greeks and then the Romans who disseminated them
through Europe remain in use for more than 25 years.
Typical hours which were first adopted by the Greeks
that I'll say it doesn't matter anything.
Two equal halves.
No new cabinet shape No.
5 is five and eight already gone.
So Greeks Greece is not a match for number six or number seven.
For the Germans
It says the Italian hours begin at sunset Babylonian hours at sunrise astronomical hours at midday and
great clock hours used for some large public clocks in Germany at midnight.
No match for anything.
Eventually these were superceded by small Clott or French hours which split the day into two 12 hour
periods.
All right so the French split the day into two 12 hour periods I think that's a match.
Yeah that's a matter of number six.
They divide the day into two equal halves.
So Germany doesn't match anything but the French.
The correct answer to seven is f..
I'm sorry.
Correct Answer number 6 is F and then number 7 is going to be English we've seen everybody else develop
develop a new cabinet shape
it right here we'll see England.
So we're talking about the English right.
The earliest were recorded weight driven mechanical clock was built and 12 83.
The revolutionary aspect of this new time keeper was neither the descending way that provided the motive
for force nor the gear wheels.
So was talking about building the clock with the English.
So we know that the correct match for number 7 is English which is D.
All right.
So now a couple of things that aren't mentioned right now even though where we finished the matching
question we can see for the pair we have location question we can actually see some of the answers right
now we know because this this question is asking which paragraph do you see this information.
So by by doing the matching question first we can see that for number three with the pendulum clock
we just read that right the pendulum clock that was mentioned right here in paragraph the pendulum clock
pendulum pendulum pendulum clock is right here.
Ok about the pendulum clock.
Also by doing the math in question we actually know the answer to also number four because Number Four
say a simultaneous efforts of different societies calculate time using uniform hours.
We know that that is from paragraph E where it talked about the Babylonian hours the German hours and
then the French splitting the day into two 12 hour periods so uniform hours right.
Twenty four equal parts.
So we know that that information comes from paragraph e.
So by doing by doing the matching question first and then doing the paragraph location questions after
you can actually get a really good idea for maybe we're were one or two of them were there where this
information is located.
And that's why I say don't do it first sorry.
So that's just a little bit of a tidbit or advice for you in terms of handling that paragraph location
question.
OK.
All right.
So if you're doing the whole course the next thing we're going to be addressing after this is the paragraph
location question and we're going to be coming back to back to this actual reading past to should do
it.
So you should be able to make a lot more sense to you then also.
So talk to you so thanks a lot.