(a) matching headlines with the relevant newspaper articles, (b) matching pictures with the stories, articles, or advertisements from which they came, (c) matching cartoons with their captions. Use this with your students, remove the captions and list them in random order on another sheet. Let students match the captions with the cartoon. (d) matching two parts of an interview, i.e., the interviewer's questions with the interviewee's answers, (e) putting together in the proper sequence all the questions and answers from an interview, (f) matching pictures, captions, and text that have been split and putting them into the right order, and so on. It is interesting, easy, and fun! Figure: Ask students to place the cards of “Garfield” and “Peanuts” cartoons into correct sequence. 
Activity: Jigsaw Reading
Purpose:
This exercise asks learners to put together two or more pieces of a written text that have been separated, thus requiring that learners guess by using text structure and content clues. Other strategies, such as a range of cognitive strategies, are involved.
Materials:
Newspapers and scissors
Time:
Variable, depending on the materials used.
Instructions:
Jigsaw reading involves cutting up a text and asking the students to put it back together. This exercise can take many forms: (多種活動進行方式)
It is best to have students work in pairs for the more complicated jigsaw reading tasks, but they may work individually for the easier ones.
For beginning and intermediate learners, the discussion will likely lapse into the mother tongue, but since the focus is on the meaning of the reading passage, this may be all right. In addition, for more advanced learners, the discussion should be in the target language if possible.
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