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  • I knew where the folktale the book is based on went, but part of the deal with retelling fairy tales is fillin gin the gaps, and my gapfill hadn't shown up for work that day.

    New Fairyland Chapter yuki_onna 2009

  • For instance, the text of a gapfill exercise is now part of the XHTML body, and can be edited WYSIWYG-style.

    AvaxHome RSS: 2008

  • A gapfill doesn’t meet my definition, whereas finding things in common almost always does.

    C is for Communicative « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Yes, our friend “Slim Shady” is quite the pottymouth…although it just occurred to me that if you find the censored version of his or someone else’s video clips, you could make it a gapfill–that way the students themselves could substitute the “wirty dords” with other things from their imagination, taking into account syntax, context, etc.

    “Who CARES what English people have for breakfast?” My contribution to the culture debate… « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

  • SWY) near gapfill and the 50 day moving average ($19.50) may be a downside opportunity.

    Minyanville 2009

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