WEBVTT 00:01.230 --> 00:03.010 Hey everyone how are you doing today. 00:03.240 --> 00:09.060 Let's go ahead now and talk about the headings question a lot of students have asked me about the headings 00:09.100 --> 00:09.980 question. 00:10.220 --> 00:15.330 A lot of students have difficulty with the headings question and actually the strategy for this question 00:15.390 --> 00:17.500 is not that difficult to understand. 00:17.720 --> 00:21.890 It's the application of the strategy that's a real problem for the students. 00:21.900 --> 00:27.690 So first let's go ahead and go through the strategy for doing the headings question and then I'll give 00:27.690 --> 00:33.060 you a couple of examples so that you can kind of understand how to really apply and do this kind of 00:33.060 --> 00:35.040 question. 00:35.040 --> 00:41.130 All right so in terms of the headings question what they really are asking you here is they're asking 00:41.130 --> 00:48.220 you to really figure out the main idea or the just right the headings question is a main idea question. 00:48.330 --> 00:49.240 That's what it is. 00:49.260 --> 00:51.260 It's a main idea question. 00:51.390 --> 00:57.720 And so when you're doing a main idea question you have to know that the most important sentence of all 00:57.780 --> 00:59.570 is the topic sentence right. 00:59.910 --> 01:07.410 Because the topic sentence is going to control and tell you exactly what that paragraph is about. 01:07.800 --> 01:10.940 But really that's that's really the main thing you have to do here. 01:11.100 --> 01:17.130 You have to discover what is this paragraph mainly talking about and that's where the challenge is because 01:17.220 --> 01:24.300 a paragraph headed because a heading question requires you to have an understanding of the meaning. 01:24.390 --> 01:26.930 What is this paragraph talking about. 01:27.120 --> 01:30.070 OK so let's look at the strategy for doing this. 01:30.120 --> 01:32.600 This particular kind of question. 01:33.110 --> 01:34.200 This is what it looks like. 01:34.200 --> 01:41.620 So as you can see here we have in the head in the box a set of headings and then we have the questions 01:41.640 --> 01:44.770 at the bottom 14 15 16 17 18. 01:45.180 --> 01:51.060 First notice of course that we have more headings than we have questions and you can only use a heading 01:51.060 --> 01:57.880 once you can use a heading more than once and you can only pick one answer for question right. 01:57.900 --> 02:02.410 So that means that some of the headings don't belong. 02:02.430 --> 02:06.020 All right so the first strategy they like to tell students. 02:06.150 --> 02:12.150 Number one don't do this question first in your set. 02:12.150 --> 02:14.040 Don't do it first one is in your set. 02:14.040 --> 02:19.830 What I mean by that is if you are reading passage 1 and you have a headings question and reading passage 02:19.860 --> 02:27.000 1 what you should do is if you get if in reading passage while you have a headings question you have 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 a matching question and you have a short answer question. 02:30.360 --> 02:37.430 What you want to do is do the short answer question and do the matching question first. 02:37.650 --> 02:39.930 Ok then do the headings. 02:39.930 --> 02:47.250 QUESTION The reason why is because if you do the short answer question first and the matching question 02:47.670 --> 02:52.830 you will have looked at a lot of the reading passage while doing that question those questions. 02:53.100 --> 03:00.600 Then when you come back and do the hanging's question it is so so much easier to do because you're familiar 03:00.600 --> 03:01.920 with the different paragraphs. 03:01.920 --> 03:03.380 They're not new to you. 03:03.750 --> 03:10.860 If you start with the headings question first if you start with it first you're going to spend so much 03:10.860 --> 03:15.420 time reading and reading and reading trying to understand. 03:15.630 --> 03:17.070 And that's how you waste time. 03:17.130 --> 03:17.600 OK. 03:17.610 --> 03:22.020 So when we're doing this test everybody is about being fish in. 03:22.290 --> 03:29.340 All right so you want when you do this question you want to begin by doing these short paragraphs first 03:29.940 --> 03:34.130 because they're going to be easier to answer and you can get those correct easier. 03:34.260 --> 03:37.880 Your overall goal is to get as many correct as I can as you can. 03:38.040 --> 03:42.870 Also by doing the shorter shorter paragraphs first you can start getting rid of some of the answer choices 03:42.990 --> 03:46.420 and it reduces your selection to choose from. 03:46.440 --> 03:49.860 Which is also a good strategy. 03:50.180 --> 03:54.350 All right the headings question is a synonyms test. 03:54.540 --> 03:55.690 OK. 03:55.830 --> 04:02.460 Synonyms test because when you look at the paragraph in the language in the paragraph they're not going 04:02.460 --> 04:07.560 to use the exact same language in the Hening they're going to use synonyms for the meaning. 04:07.790 --> 04:13.260 And so you have to have a good grasp of them and then language in order to do a good job on this particular 04:13.260 --> 04:15.590 question. 04:15.600 --> 04:22.180 Now I want you to be careful when picking answer choices simply because they have the same words. 04:22.200 --> 04:24.230 That's what we don't want to do. 04:24.300 --> 04:29.170 We don't want to pick an answer choice just because it has the same words OK. 04:29.550 --> 04:30.910 We don't want to do that. 04:31.230 --> 04:36.690 So let's make sure that we don't do that when we're doing this because this test is designed to get 04:36.690 --> 04:44.700 rid of students they have a very low level of English one way they do that one way they do that is by 04:45.390 --> 04:51.300 giving them exactly which to choose from because they'll choose the exact language and then they'll 04:51.300 --> 04:52.880 get that answer wrong. 04:53.260 --> 04:53.870 Right. 04:54.180 --> 04:58.830 So like I said before the most important sentence is a topic sentence which is the first sentence of 04:58.830 --> 05:06.170 a paragraph it explains with a pair of revers about enchain what makes this question difficult is that 05:06.170 --> 05:12.050 you must understand meaning just happens to be a very good test of somebody's English ability. 05:12.290 --> 05:19.830 You have to understand meaning must understand meaning have to makes it a challenge is not like a field 05:19.830 --> 05:23.520 a blank question or a short answer question. 05:23.540 --> 05:26.390 All right so here is our specific strategy. 05:26.390 --> 05:31.730 Quickly read through the possible answer choices underlining any key words that stand out to you. 05:31.790 --> 05:35.870 That's very important in the answer choices because those are some of the that's some of the synonym 05:35.870 --> 05:38.410 language you're probably going to use. 05:38.480 --> 05:43.640 Go to the lowest shortest paragraph and read either the first and last sentence or the first and second 05:43.640 --> 05:44.570 sentence. 05:44.600 --> 05:46.090 Both strategies work. 05:46.310 --> 05:50.930 If you're a fast reader read the first second and the last. 05:50.930 --> 05:55.130 Then you go to your headings and you choose the one that captures the same meaning that you basically 05:55.130 --> 05:57.500 found a topic sentence from. 05:57.530 --> 05:58.250 All right. 05:58.250 --> 06:03.170 And then you move on to the next shortest paragraph short appear shortest paragraph and repeat the process. 06:03.230 --> 06:06.980 So that's how we do the headings question is those four easy steps. 06:06.980 --> 06:09.310 But the trickiest application. 06:09.380 --> 06:14.600 So let's take a look at some examples of the headings questions so you can see how we apply this question. 06:14.660 --> 06:17.650 Not hard to do but you've got to have a good understanding of English. 06:17.690 --> 06:18.380 OK. 06:18.560 --> 06:19.730 So thanks a lot. 06:19.730 --> 06:20.600 Talk to you soon. 06:20.600 --> 06:22.570 Let's go over this headings question.