Auto Cloze

A cloze exercise or drill means 穴埋め式読解力テスト, クローズテスト in Japanese. Cloze tests require the ability to understand context and vocabulary in order to identify the correct words that belong in the blank spaces of a text.

At Apps4efl you will find a fun and easy cloze activities.

 

First, go to the Apps4efl site and click Activities.

 

Choose "Simple English Wikipedia" at first. If you want to challenge yourself later, choose "Native English Wikipedia".

 

Insert one or more keywords and click Search.

 

Click the result that most interests you. Then start the test.

 

 

Scroll down and choose the correct word.

Storyline - How I Learned Geography

How I Learned Geography read by Ed O'Neill. Written and Illustrated by Uri Schulevitz. Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy's father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious.

Storyline is a wonderful YouTube channel that "streams imaginatively produced videos featuring celebrated actors including Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Elijah Wood, and others reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations, helping to inspire a love of reading in children."

In this video, Ed O'Neill reads Uri Shulevitz's Caldecott Award-winning story How I Learned Geography.