READING

Cambridge Assessment

Progression – the spiral curriculum

http://www.poet.org.nz/programme.php

A spiral curriculum allows pupils to revisit a subject matter's content at the different levels of development of the subject matter being studied.

This allows previous knowledge to be reviewed and extended and ensures that no knowledge is forgotten to never be used again.

The bigger picture

The details

Unpunctuated:

Woman without her man is nothing.

Punctuated by the woman:

Woman, without her, man is nothing

Punctuated by the man:

Woman, without her man, is nothing.

shades of meaningDear John:

I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy - will you let me be yours?

Gloria

Dear John:

I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men, I yearn. For you, I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart, I can be forever happy. Will you let me be?

Yours,

Gloria

Top down processing

Bottom-up processing

Reading processes

R1 R understand the main points in texts on a growing range ofunfamiliar general and curricular topics, including someextended texts 

R2 R understand specific information in texts on a growing range ofunfamiliar general and curricular topics, including someextended texts 

R3 R understand the detail of an argument on a growing range ofunfamiliar general and curricular topics, including someextended texts 

R4 R understand implied meaning on a growing range of general andcurricular topics, including some extended texts 

R5 R recognise the attitude or opinion of the writer on a growingrange of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including someextended texts 

R6 V deduce meaning from context on a growing range of unfamiliargeneral and curricular topics, including some extended texts 

R7 R recognise typical features at word, sentence and text level in agrowing range of written genres 

Cambridge Reading

Multi-task : Multiple-choice Gapped Text Multiple-matching True / False Yes, NO, Doesn’t Say Text Summary Completion

…multi-skill ….

Careless tourists scar ancient alpine rock art line 3 Tens of thousands of ancient pictures carved into the rocks at one of France’s most important tourist sites are being gradually destroyed. Scientists and researchers fear that the 36,000 drawings on rocks in Mont Bego in the French Alps are being damaged so rapidly that they will not survive for future generations. The mountain, believed to have once been a site for prayer and worship, is scattered with 4,000-year-old drawings cut into bare rock. They include pictures of cows with horns, cultivated fields and various gods and goddesses. But as the popularity of the site increases, the pictures are being ruined by thoughtless graffiti. Jean Clottes is the chairman of the International Committee on Rock Art. He says ‘People think that because the pictures have been there so long they will always continue to be there. But if the damage continues at this rate there will be nothing left in 50 years.’ He describes seeing tourists stamping on the drawings, wearing away the rock and definition of the artwork as they do so. Some visitors, he says, even chop off parts to take home as souvenirs. ‘When people think they can’t take a good enough photograph, they rub the drawings to get a clearer picture,’ he said. ‘The drawings are polished by the weather, and if the sun is shining and the visitors can’t see them properly, they simply rub and scrape them to make them look fresher.’ Other researchers describe how people arrive carrying long sticks with sharp ends to scratch their own drawings, or even their names, in the rocks.

1 What does ‘they’ refer to in line 3? A the rocks B the French Alps C the drawings D the tourist sites 2 Jean Clottes says that people who visit the mountain

A do not believe the drawings are old. B believe they are allowed to paint there. C think the drawings should be left alone. D assume the drawings will not change. 3 This article has been written about Mont Bego to A advertise the closure of the site. B describe fears about the future of the site. C encourage scientists to visit the site. D warn visitors about the dangers of the site.

Mountain-biking in Mexico line 3 line 4 When you trek by bike you use a four-wheel-drive back-up truck. The vehicle carries all the heavy gear between overnight stops. This can be a mixed blessing, however, as those riding at the rear of the group can get fed up with having a noisy engine roaring away just behind their back wheel. Destinations are also dictated by the transport. There’s no point riding off into the wilderness if the support truck can’t get there too.

1 What does the writer mean by ‘this can be a mixed blessing’ (lines 3-4)? A It can be extremely useful not to carry everything on a bike.

B There are advantages and disadvantages to this arrangement.

C It is good to mix riding on a bike and being in a truck. D Some people did not agree to having a truck with them.

A At first we feel silly, and more than a little self-conscious, but it seems to work since the animals stay calm as we approach them. B We realise he has seen us and is checking us out before emerging fully.

C This makes us both jump and distracts our attention from why we are here.

The TV Stars from the desert

The meerkats of the Kalahari desert in South Arica are famous and Ann and Steve Toon went to find them.Meerkats are animals which are about 30cm tall and live in groups of 20 to 30. The ones we were looking for were filmed during a period of four years and starred in a TV documentary series. We wanted to see them for real.So it's 5.30am and we are in the middle of nowhere, waiting for the sun to burn off the remains of yesterday's storm clouds. Nearby a large black bird lets rip his deafening, regular wake-up call. 1... And while our eyes are off the ball, a meerkat makes his appearance.He pops his head out of the burrow where he has spent the night. 2... Apparently satisfied, he stands upright. He is followed by a female and then some other adults.

Multiple-choice elimination

I shifted uncomfortably inside my best suit and eased a finger inside the tight white collar. It was hot in the little bus and I had taken a seat on the wrong side where the summer sun beat on the windows. It was a strange outfit for the weather, but a few miles ahead my future employer might be waiting for me and I had to make a good impression.

There was a lot depending on this interview. Many friends who had qualified with me were unemployed or working in shops or as labourers in the shipyards. So many that I had almost given up hope of any future for myself as a veterinary surgeon.

1 As he travelled, the writer regretted his choice ofA B clothes.C career.D means of transport.

Multiple-choice : Righting wrongs

Look the question below about the same text. Again the correct answer has been removed. Each of the statements A C and D are not true about the text. Change them [changing as few words as possible] to make them true about the text.

What point is made about cats in Britain ?

A They are no more dangerous than other predators.BC They are not increasing in numbers.D They do less harm in rural areas.

Now say what you think the key might have been.

Approaches to gapped text

CoherenceThe relationships which link the meanings of the

sentences in a text.

CohesionThe grammatical and/or lexical relationships

between the different elements of a text.

Coherence Opening Lines [previous paragraph] The bare hills in this region have been of increasing concern

to the island’s authorities.

Even in the hottest months, clouds form over the mountains of northern Lanzarote.

This more ambitious scheme could be managed in one of two ways, he says.

The results look promising

Wider Reading classroom activities

Good idea / Bad idea Borrowing fiction/non-fiction from a class library Completing e-reader assignments Reading a CAE set text as a class Using English-Romanian dictionary to note approximate meaning of words Completing regular English web-based assignments Reading local English newspapers Using computer thesaurus to explore similar words Using an English-English dictionary to check words Keeping detailed vocabulary notebooks