B2 First for Schools Reading and Use of English Part 6 (Gapped text) Prepare to read. Prepare for exam success. Top tip! Read everything in English. Each task in this lesson requires you to conduct online research on websites that are written in English only. Don’t translate the text! These tasks will help you to improve your ability to read and skim a text in English for the main idea, and also to read for detail - both skills that you already have in your first language, but which don’t transfer automatically when you learn another language.
Summary In this lesson you will: • Practise reading skills. • Choose a text to read in English. • Deduce the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary from the surrounding context. • Read the text in more detail. • Practise Reading part 6.
Research task 1: Take an active interest In this lesson you are going to practise reading stories from the BBC website. Tip! Use your strengths and interests to improve your understanding. We’re usually more motivated to read something when we’re genuinely interested in the topic. Before you read a whole text, just read the title and the beginning paragraph. Ask yourself: What do you already know about this topic? How do you feel about it? 1. The topic of this lesson is inventions. What do you think is the most useful invention of modern times? What about the least useful? Take some notes in your notebook of which invention(s) you think are most/least useful and why. 2. Now, for each of the following articles, read only the title and the first 4-5 sentences. Then choose one article which you find interesting, and which you will read in more detail. • • • 1 2
World wide web1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47514334 Mobile phone2 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8639590.stm Plastic 3
Invented in 1989, article published in 2019. Invented in 1973, article published in 2010. 1