have you mastered the fill-in the blanks questions yet if not you could be missing out on some valuable points so stay tuned because we've got some great tips and practice questions to help you score 140 or higher hello I'm Francis from last minute English today we're looking at the det fill inth blanks questions we're going to see what the questions are I'll give you some tips for how you can improve and we'll do some practice questions together so what are the fill inth blanks questions so you'll see on the screen a full sentence and in
the sentence one word will have some of the letters taken away you might see two or three of the letters and then it will be space space space space and you have to find what the missing letters are to complete that word when you figured it out you type in those letters and you've got 20 seconds to finish it so it happens very quickly and you'll see between six and nine of these questions on a typical D and remember like everything in D this section is adaptive that means if you're answering lots of questions correctly
the questions get harder and harder so how can you improve your score in this section the first tip is not to look immediately at the word read the whole sentence first and make sure you look for context that means look for the words before the Gap look at the words after the Gap by looking at the whole sentence you'll get a better idea and make a better guess be careful as well of spelling if you guess the word correctly but type it wrong it's still going to be wrong so if you look at the word
and you think oh I think that's wrong you can backspace you can type it again and speaking of spellings make sure that you're using American English spellings because if you try and write the word in British English the system will consider it as a wrong answer now if you're not sure uh what American English spellings are it's mostly the same as British English except Americans don't like the letter U so for example in the word color British English it's o u r American English is o r for some reason they hate the letter u and
the other difference is American English often uses a z or Zed to spell words that in British English are spelled with an S for example the word strategize in American English is with a z and in British English is with an S and you can even practice these using AI so we've created a prompt it's here in the description under the video you can paste that into chat GPT and ask it to create these fill-in the blanks questions for you so that you can practice and practice and practice now just before we go to the
practice questions let's quickly talk about why fill-in the blanks questions are important so in this section you're earning points towards your reading literacy and comprehension subscores and these three subscores are increasingly important because many universities are starting to set minimum standards for these subscores if you want to study at that University so if you do really well on these fill-in the blanks questions you're giving yourself a much better chance of achieving your dreams of studying in a foreign University Okay so we've talked about what these fill in the blanks questions are some tips for how
to do them well and why they're important let's do some practice so this is a good opportunity to go and get a piece of paper and a pen so that you can actually write these down and take part and the questions and if you're enjoying this video please remember to like And subscribe so that you don't miss all of our future DET practice videos so we're going to look at 10 questions Al together each one you'll have 20 seconds to answer I want you to actually write down your answer and we're just going to go
straight through no stopping and at the end we'll check the answers together remember your job is to write down that missing word ready to start let's have the first question now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay welcome back how was that so let's find out how many you got right and remember when we've marked these I want you to tell me under the video tell me how many out of 10 you got correct so let's read through one by one sentence one the company's stock price has been steadily increasing since
last quarter okay so has been increasing so it should be the continuous the in then question two a healthy diet and exercise are crucial crucial very very important for maintaining a good quality of life then number three the detective carefully analyzed the clues to solve the mystery so it's carefully which is the adverb the advv because it's describing analyzed okay analyzed is a verb so we say how you analyzed it must be an adverb carefully number four the mountain range stretched across The Horizon creating an incredible Vista number five the author's new novel is a
compelling tale of love and loss compelling means really interesting you want to keep reading and keep reading then number six the scientist's groundbreaking research could potentially revolutionize the field of medicine so revolutionize means to totally change something potentially means it might so we're not saying it definitely will we're saying it might totally change the field of medicine number seven the ancient ruins were a testament to the Ingenuity of past civilizations so Ingenuity means that people were very creative they had amazing ideas and a testament means something that proves that they were uh very creative the
number eight is a tricky one because it's that American English spelling so let's find out what the word is in her retirement speech the detective said it had been an honor so here it's h o n o r British English is O uur so only American English can be correct here an honor to serve as a police officer for over 20 years number nine the athletes dedication and perseverance led to her Victory so so here we're thinking about the grammar so it's two nouns perseverance that one must be a noun and so the one before
it must also be a noun so it's not dedicated it's not dedicating it's dedication the sh t i o n so it must be a noun and then number 10 is also an American English spelling the company's products are easily recognized with a z Zed not an S it would be S if it was British English I I like British English as you know I'm from I'm from the UK so I write in British English but American English is fine as well and it's more than fine for D because you have to use it to
get the answer correct so recognized because of their distinctive color scheme that means we can see the color and easily know that it is that company so there we go those are our 10 questions remember I want to know how many you got correct so please let me know your answer even if you're a little embarrassed let me know how many you got under the video but no matter what your score was remember practice makes perfect the more you practice these the better you will be and the better your final score will be if you
found this video useful make sure to like And subscribe and if you are preparing for the det and you want to be totally prepared for every every question type we have a free Guide to the det it's available on our website it has all of the question types practice questions with answers and information about which universities are asking for what score level so the link is just under here make sure you check that out I'm Francis from last minute English thank you for watching I'll see you next time
