Cloze exercise

Electronic or paper based gap fill exercises

A brilliant bumper collection for E1-2ESOL. The exercises include a basic introduction to prepositions, gap fills and underlining exercises, anagrams, mixed up sentences, write your own sentences (with and without word prompts). Excellent practice for class or homework.

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
ESOL
ESOL Rs/E1.1a Read and recognise simple sentence structures:
ESOL Rs/E2.1a Use grammatical structures that link clauses and help identify sequence
ESOL Rs/E2.1b Use knowledge of simple and compound sentence structure to work out meaning
ESOL Rw/E1.1a Recognise a limited number of words, signs and symbols

A beautiful set of 5 games and activities at text, sentence and word level. Includes word fill, word search, cloze exercise and more. Ideal for end of term lesson (or the beginning of the autumn term when holidays are being discussed) with answer sheets and teaching ideas.

Level
Entry Level 2
Entry Level 1
English
General literacy / English
ESOL
General ESOL

A cheerful set of gap-fill sentences with picture prompts. Followed by a set of more challenging sentences. The pictures can also be used for speaking practice. This resource complements Amanda’s pronoun comprehension (see below). Although written for ESOL students the sentences also make good reading / Dolch spelling practice for E1 literacy.

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
Rs/E1.1 Read and recognise simple sentence structures
ESOL
ESOL Rs/E2.1b Use knowledge of simple and compound sentence structure to work out meaning
ESOL Sc/E1.4a Make simple statements of fact

A brilliant 18 page student workbook originally written for Milestone 8, E1-2 ESOL students to use at the beginning of the academic year. Complete with student and tutor record pages, evaluation, and answer sheets. Includes spelling, reading, cloze exercises and comprehension, sentences, word searches and a crossword.

Level
M8
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
General literacy / English
Pre-entry
pre-Entry General
ESOL
General ESOL

Another super 18 page student workbook originally written for Milestone 8, E1-2 ESOL students to use at the beginning of the academic year. Complete with student and tutor record pages, evaluation, and answer sheets. Includes spelling, reading, cloze exercises and comprehension, form-filling, sentences, word searches and a crossword.

Level
M8
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
General literacy / English
Form filling
Pre-entry
pre-Entry General
ESOL
General ESOL

Coronation Street resources – 8 super pages of Entry 2 resources based on this popular soap. Cloze exercise, matching game, alphabetical order, form filling, punctuation and more.
Adapted from Sally Shipton’s Emmerdale resource (see below).

Level
Entry Level 1
Entry Level 2
English
Form filling
Rs/E2.2 Use sentence structure to decipher and predict meaning
Rs/E2.3 check plausible meanings of sentences when decoding unfamiliar words
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rw/E2.4
AL Rw/E1.1 Have limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs, symbols
Ws/E2.1
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Ws/E2.3
Ws/E2.4
Context
Art Film Media Music Radio TV

A hilarious cloze / comprehension exercise based on a real letter to a newspaper. Great for E3 reading, prediction and word order work.

Level
Entry Level 3
English
Adult Literacy Rs/E3.2 Use implicit & explicit knowledge of word types/order to help with decoding/predicting meaning
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
Rt/E3.4

11 super pages of Entry 2 resources based on this popular soap. Cloze exercises, sentence matching, alphabetical order, form filling, comprehension, punctuation and more.

Level
Entry Level 2
English
Ws/E2.4
Ws/E2.3
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
Ws/E2.1
Rw/E2.1
Rw/E2.4
AL Rt/E2.1 Follow main points of short texts
Rs/E2.3 check plausible meanings of sentences when decoding unfamiliar words
Rs/E2.2 Use sentence structure to decipher and predict meaning
Form filling
Context
Art Film Media Music Radio TV

A set of gap-fill / sentence writing exercises written for ESOL learners but also suitable for literacy students.

Level
Entry Level 2
English
Adult Lit Ws/E2.2 Use Adjectives
ESOL
ESOL Ws/E2.2a Use adjectives

Cloze exercise. A great way of improving reading and grammar skills alongside vocational knowledge.

Level
Entry Level 3
Level 1
English
Adult Literacy Rs/E3.2 Use implicit & explicit knowledge of word types/order to help with decoding/predicting meaning
Adult Literacy Rs/L1.1 Use implicit and explicit grammatical knowledge
AL Rt/E3.1 Understand longer texts
AL Rt/L1.1 Understand continuous texts
Context
Construction Carpentry Plumbing