Exercise 2

Read the article and check your answers to exercise 1. reading strategies:completing Texts with sentence gaps (a)read the text to get the general idea. (b)read a paragraph with asentence gap and identify the topic, e.g. disasters. (c)read the sentences before and after the gap and look for clues about the missing setence, e.g. is it an example of what is mentioned before? (d)certain words may help you: time references(then). pronoun references(it, that),linking words(however), (e)decide which sentence goes in the gap.check that it fits the sentences before and after it.