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Fill-in-the-gaps Exercise

How to use Language Learning Express (Lex) to make a fill-in-the-gaps exercise

First you navigate to a web page in one of Lex' tab windows. For example, to the web page used in the snapshot below that contains the lyrics of What A Wonderful World. Then you mark the words that you want to turn into gaps by using the right-click menu. With just a few more clicks you can then turn the marked words into gaps to create a fill-in-the-gaps exercise.

The two-step process of first marking the words and then turning them into gaps is described below.

1. Marking - the first step to create a fill-in-the-gaps exercise

To mark a word you just right-click on it and select "Mark" and then select your marking of choice. In this example several words have already been marked with "Mark 2" (green) and the word "blessed" is about to be marked in the same way.

2. Turn the marked words into gaps to actually create the fill-in-the-gaps exercise

When you click on the "Exercise" button on the toolbar of the lower main window a small popup menu will appear. If you select "Create Exercise" on that popup menu a Text Exercise Setup window will open in the upper main window as in the example below.

By checking and unchecking the check marks in that window you can switch the highlighting of the marked words on and off and you can turn the marked words into gaps and create a fill-in-the-gaps exercise.

3. Run the fill-in-the-gaps exercise

After you have turned the marks into gaps you click on the "Start" button to start the fill-in-the-gaps exercise. That will cause the Text Exercise Setup window to be replaced by a Scoreboard window as you can see in the snapshot below.

Then you just have to fill in the gaps and for each gap you will get visual feedback in the Feedback section of the Scoreboard. If you need some help you can get that from the Aid section and you will naturally get your score from the Score section. Click here to read more about Feedback, Aid and Score.

In the fill-in-the-gaps exercise below the three first words have been filled in correctly. The fourth word has been filled in incorrectly. The program gives feedback and waits for another try.

Please visit www.LearnWare.se and read about Text Exercises and Glossary Exercises, the two types of fill-in-the-gaps exercises that you can create with Language Learning Express. Please download Lex 1.1 and try it out for yourself.