Module 6 · Lesson 4 of 7
Matching headings
A reliable method for heading questions: find each paragraph’s main idea, see through the five classic traps, and practise on an original five-paragraph passage.
In this lesson
- Tell a paragraph’s main idea apart from its details, including when the main idea comes last
- Read every heading for its topic and its angle, so headings that look alike stop looking the same
- Recognise the five traps that wrong headings are built from: the echo, the detail, the umbrella, the twist and the neighbour
- Follow a step-by-step method that matches headings quickly and checks them before you move on
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Inside this lesson
- What the question looks like
- Main idea or detail?
- Five traps that wrong headings are built from
- Read the headings for topic and angle
- The method, step by step
- Worked example: thinking it through
- Practise: a five-paragraph passage
- Harder cases
- Timing and the exam routine
- A drill to train your eye