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: Multiple choice Show all words Anagrams Text entry In line First letter Dashes Combo No vowels No consonants Repeats Avoid Number Show all ? Lower case ?

 

Your exercise will appear here

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Editing section and advanced features - Show

Select tutorial Basic principles Adding an example Transformation 1 Transformation 2 Text treatment Using Reserve Using 'Save' to add an exercise

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
Use this for 'parking' text so it doesn't get lost. For example you could copy and paste the original text here while you experiment in the top 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