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IELTS Worksheet
✍ Gap Fill Strategy
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After this worksheet you can
Apply the before/during/after stepsPredict word typesSpot common trapsCheck answers correctly📚 Quick Recap
🎯 What you'll practice: The before/during/after gap-fill strategy and the traps that cost the most marks.
🧠 Section A · Concept Check ● BEGINNER 4 × 1 = 4
1Before the recording, you should:
2If you miss one answer, you should:
3Which spelling is accepted?
4A 4-word answer when the limit is 3 words is:
🧮 Section B · Problem Solving ● INTERMEDIATE 2 + 3×3 = 11
5Listen for , not the exact question wording.
6After listening, check grammar, spelling, and word .
7What should you underline while reading the questions before the recording?
8If a speaker changes their mind mid-sentence, which answer is correct?
9Name the three "after" checks you should always do.
🚀 Section C · Challenge ● CHALLENGE 5
10Explain why "listening for synonyms" rather than exact question wording is critical to gap-fill success.
💭 Reflection — the most useful thing I learned:
A ___/4 B ___/11 C ___/5 Total ___/20
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1-B 2-B 3-C 4-B | 5 = synonyms 6 = limit 7 = keywords around the gap 8 = the final answer given (the corrected one) 9 = grammar (singular/plural), spelling, word limit | 10 = The recording almost never repeats the question's exact wording — it paraphrases using different vocabulary that means the same thing, so a test-taker listening only for the literal question words will miss the answer entirely; training your ear to recognise a rephrased idea, not a repeated phrase, is what actually catches the correct gap-fill answer.