Hey! In IELTS reading matching sentence endings is a strange question type. At first glance, they can seem simple. After all, your only task is to match the start of a sentence with its correct end. And, as all of the possible endings are given to you, the challenge seems minimal.

However, as we will see today, matching sentence endings question are unique as they rarely contain clear scaling words. This makes them unique as they are both "slow" (because identifying the sentence that contains the answer can be difficult) and "quick" (because once you find the sentence, locating the answer should be easy).

The key to finding the sentences is reading for meaning, which is what we will teach you in today's episode!

You can find out more about today's lesson at  https://blog.myieltsclassroom.com/ielts-reading-matching-sentence-endings/

In this episode, we will:

1. look at the basics of matching sentence endings questions
2. examine how the question has changed over the last few years
3. explain why you cannot use skimming or scaling to tackle the questions
4. answer a set of questions from Cambridge 14 while demonstrating what happens in the mind of a reader who is interacting with a text

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• Still can't find the answer? Take a deeper dive into the world of True False Not Given questions http://blog.myieltsclassroom.com/ielts-true-false-not-given-i-understand-the-technique-so-why-cant-i-find-the-correct-answers/
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