READING
Cambridge Assessment
Progression – the spiral curriculum
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.
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The bigger picture
The details
Unpunctuated:
Punctuated by the woman:
Woman without her
man is nothing.
Woman, without her, man is nothing
Punctuated by the man:
Woman, without her man, is nothing.
shades of meaning
Dear John:
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?
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?
Gloria
Yours,
Gloria
Top down processing
Bottom-up processing
Reading processes
R1
R
understand the main points in texts on a growing range of
unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some
extended texts
R2
R
understand specific information in texts on a growing range of
unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some
extended texts
R3
R
understand the detail of an argument on a growing range of
unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some
extended texts
R4
R
understand implied meaning on a growing range of general and
curricular topics, including some extended texts
R5
R
recognise the attitude or opinion of the writer on a growing
range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics, including some
extended texts
R6
V
deduce meaning from context on a growing range of unfamiliar
general and curricular topics, including some extended texts
R7
R
recognise typical features at word, sentence and text level in a
growing 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
A
B
C
D
2
What does ‘they’ refer to in line 3?
the rocks
the French Alps
the drawings
the tourist sites
Jean Clottes says that people who visit the mountain
A
B
C
D
3
A
B
C
D
do not believe the drawings are old.
believe they are allowed to paint there.
think the drawings should be left alone.
assume the drawings will not change.
This article has been written about Mont Bego to
advertise the closure of the site.
describe fears about the future of the site.
encourage scientists to visit the site.
warn visitors about the dangers of the site.
Mountain-biking
Mexico line 3
in
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
4)?
A
What does the writer mean by ‘this can be a mixed blessing’ (lines 3-
B
There are advantages and disadvantages to this arrangement.
C
D
It is good to mix riding on a bike and being in a truck.
Some people did not agree to having a truck with them.
It can be extremely useful not to carry everything on a bike.
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 of
A
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.
B
C 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
Coherence
The relationships which link the meanings of the
sentences in a text.
Cohesion
The 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