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| What is Matching? | |
| --fitting together of different parts. | |
| When to do Matching? | |
| -- as a warm up activity or a pre-reading activity | |
| Why Matching? | |
| -- it can enable students to use responses
to the parts to build up sensitivity to the whole. -- it requires recognition of stylistic similarities, continuities of character and thematic correspondences. |
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| How to do Matching? | |
| 1. | Beginnings and endings--primary matching
activity a collect examples of openings and closings to texts a mix the beginnings and endings separately a invite students to match the relevant pairs. PS. This is a useful pre-reading exercise for short stories or narrative poems. |
| 2. | Matching character descriptions from different stories |
| 3. | Matching three or more settings to
a single story a find the story in which the settings could be placed |
| 4. | Isolating the 'odd man out' -- choose the most impossible one from the whole passage |
| 5. | Matching drama personae with a scene
from the play a a cast list and some description of the personae should be provided a present a scene(the dialogs between the characters) a ask students to match certain lines with certain characters |
| 6. | Two-in-one story aSentences jumbled together from two different works to form two separate stories a Ask students to find the two separate stories |
| 7. | Split exchanges a ask students to find the possible response by speculating about the context in which the exchange occur. |
| 8. | Split poem |
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