[etni] cloze
- From: judy cohen <judywcil@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 02:40:52 -0700 (PDT)
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This may be totally off the wall, but I always thought that the word cloze was
invented here in Israel. We put in the missing elements to create a closed -
complete - sentence or paragraph. I figured the "z" was an example of the
gentle humor we sometimes exercise, that created characters like Gad Alon (G-d
alone?) (esh 7) and O.B. Sitty (this years' Bagrut, in an article about what
teens eat (obesity?).
Anyway that's what I thought. A few years ago, a Russian teacher approached me
(I worked in a school where one could do a Bagrut in Russian) and asked me to
explain what a "cloze" was, since it was new to her. I really think that
English exams were the first place a cloze could be found.
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