Responding to written materials – WJECStrategies to help you understand

Discover useful hints to help you find relevant information in written texts and practical tips that will help you respond to different types of materials both confidently and effectively.

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Strategies to help you understand

If you are asked some questions based on a piece of written text, there are some strategies that you could use in order to find the information quickly. For example:

For questions beginning with Pam?Why? look for...

  • achos in order to find the reason

For questions beginning with Pwy?Who? look for...

  • a capital letter to denote the name of a person, for example John
  • a type of job, for example athro, nyrs, actor

For questions beginning with Pryd?When? look for...

  • a day or night of the week, for example dydd Llun or nos Lun
  • a time, for example hanner awr wedi saith
  • a date, for example Mawrth y cyntaf
  • a time-related word or expression, for example wythnos nesaf, yfory, penwythnos, bob nos

For questions beginning with Sawl?/Faint?How many? look for...

  • a number, for example un, wyth

In addition to this, you could scan the text for the key words which are in the question – to see whether those words, or similar words, also appear in the text.

Read the next paragraph, which is taken from a letter Sioned has written to a magazine to express her opinions about TV programmes – rhaglenni teledu.

Yn fy marn i, mae rhaglenni realiti yn a hoffwn i weld mwy o raglenni chwaraeon a rhaglenni comedi ar y teledu. Mae llawer o raglenni realiti ar y teledu achos mae pawb eisiau mynd ar y rhaglenni yma – maen nhw eisiau bod yn . Mae’r rhaglenni yma ar y teledu bob nos!

Read the question:

Beth ydy barn Sioned am raglenni realiti? – What is Sioned’s opinion of reality programmes?

The key words in the question are: barn and rhaglenni realiti. Look for these words in the text – remember, they may have been mutated.

Can you now answer this question? In order to give a full answer, you could say:

  • Yn ôl Sioned,… – According to Sioned,…
  • Mae Sioned yn dweud bod… – Sioned says that…

Question

Beth ydy barn Sioned am raglenni realiti?

Question

Now, using the advice given above, answer the following question:

Pryd mae rhaglenni realiti ar y teledu?