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Assorted gap fill exercises

Instant access to 100 gap fill exercises from the first year of the blog. These can be done in several different ways, and can even be edited.

Interactive formats (all also printable)

Note - Not every option will be suitable for every exercise

Multiple choice - showing up to 4 options for each question
Show the gapped words in a box at the top
Show the missing words as anagrams
Text entry - fill in the gaps without any clues
In line - shows the base word after the gap - good for transformations

Printable non-interactive formats

Note - These are only suitable when the base word and the answer are the same

Show first letter of missing words
Show a dash for each letter of the missing word
Combo - first letter and dashes
Show consonants only
Show vowels only

For teachers

The exercises are automatically loaded into the text editor (click on 'Show')
Here they can be edited for printing
Join two exercises together by copying them into the reserve box
Print two exercises on the same page using the 'Save' facility
The text editor can also be used as a gapfill exercise generator

Printing

Only the exercise will show
Print page 1 only

Index

Click on an exercise to select, or cycle through the exercises using the 'Next' and 'Prev' buttons.

Box Width: ? Clickable ? Tick ?

Number Questions ? Number gaps ?

Options: Repeats ? Lower case ?

Your exercise will appear here

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Editing section and advanced features - Show

Exercises are automatically loaded into the editing box below

Use the dropdown menu or the < > buttons to navigate the tutorial

Load the examples and click on Replace and see how they look

Title

Instructions (optional)

Main text

Reserve Box

Exercises are automatically loaded into the editing box below

Use the dropdown menu or the buttons to navigate the tutorial

Load the examples and click on Replace and see how they look

Look at the editing box below and you'll see that gapped words are made with square brackets.

If you want to change which words are gapped, just change the square brackets.

You can also of course change the text, add more questions, remove those you don't like, etc.

When you're done, click on 'Replace'. You then have all the normal options with your exercise.

If you want to start with an example question:

start the first line of the main quiz "EG. "
make sure you use capitals + full stop + space
gap the target word as usual and the program will do the rest
the answer will be shown with a line through it

You might want to show only a verb's base word for example, and still be able to print out answers. This is easily done by separating answer and base word with a back slash

The gapped text [have been walking\walk] shows:

walk in the word box
have been walking in the answers

You might want to show only part of the answer in the clues

Show part of answer 1 - [chair>s] will only show 'chair'
Show part of answer 2 - [how to <get] will only show 'get'
Show part of answer 3 - [have been <walk>ing] will only show 'walk'

In show First letter and Combo, you can show more than one letter

[st_ring] will show st...........

Add treatment to text (bold, italic, underline)

To make text Bold	- Surround it with these opening and closing tags <b>word</b>
To make text Italic	- Surround it with these opening and closing tags <i>word</i>
To Underline text	- Surround it with these opening and closing tags <u>word</u>

Using the Reserve box to combine two exercises

Load an exercise and paste it into the Reserve box
Load another exercise
Paste the first from the Reserve box to a suitabl place in the main box
Click on Replace, and the two exercises will now be combined
You could similarly combine parts of two or more exercises

You can print two or more exercises together

Exercises currently saved

When you're happy with the current exercise click on 'Save'
Select next exercise, when you're happy with it, click 'Save' again
If you change your mind click on 'Undo' to delete last saved exercise
To show all saved exercises, click on 'Load'
Now do a print Preview and you'll see all your saved exercises
To clear all saved exercises refresh the page

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