Unit 3 Reading

Unit 2 Exam skill

By NGUYEN NHAT ANH

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Read the passage and complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THANTHREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

1 The writer's mother often cooks

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Read the passage and complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THANTHREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

2 She thought the visit to Germany would make her feel

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Read the passage and complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THANTHREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

3 Brigitte came to pick up the girl with

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Read the passage and complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THANTHREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

4 The Schmitt family's pets' names are

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Read the passage and complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THANTHREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

From her bedroom the girl could see a

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Read the passage and complete the sentences below. Choose NO MORE THANTHREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

The girl and her family tried hard to make Brigitte

Unit 3 Reading

By NGUYEN NHAT ANH

​Outcomes

• identify the main ideas of a passage

• find information in a text quickly

• deal with multiple-choice questions

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education and employment

​Work	​Studies
​business employers job office retirement	​academic blended learning degree lifelong learning primary education qualification seminars

​scanning

Moving your eyes across a text to find specific information, ignoring everything that is not relevant.

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Draw

How many of the words can you find in the text opposite in ONE minute?

​gist

The main idea of a text, not the detail. We usually skim read to find the gist.

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Multiple Choice

Does the text express a positive or negative view of globalisation in education?

• positive

• negative

​paragraph A

​paragraph B C

​sentence stem

The beginning of a sentence that is to be completed by choosingone of the options.

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Multiple Choice

Blended learning means

• continuing to learn throughout your life.

• studying online or via email.

• mixing traditional and modern methods.

• learning in a classroom.

Multiple Choice

All of these are advantages of globalised education except:

• Students in developing countries can getbetterjobs.

• Students can get a degree at a cheaper price

• Universities benefit from internationalstudents.

• The elite get most of the opportunities.

overseas

advantages

disrupting

attending​

​enrich

valuable

offices

​sampling a text

Read the first and last paragraphs and the first sentence of every paragraph in between. This gives you a good chance of quickly identifying the main ideas.

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overseas

advantages

disrupting

attending​

​enrich

valuable

offices

• Read (skim) the text very quickly so you understand what it is about.

• Read the main part of the questions and find the key words (the words that will help you find the answer in the passage).

• Find the key words or words that mean the same in the passage.

• Try to answer the question without looking at the options A-D.

• Find the option, A, 8, C or D, that matches your answer.

• Check that the other options are incorrect

​Remember!

Multiple Choice

Apprenticeships

• are a new way of learning.

• were common in the past.

• only existed in the past.

• did not help people do well at work.

Multiple Choice

The education system introduced in 1944

• only affected 0.5% of students

• taught only technical subjects

• was not a great success.

• was for academically gifted students.

Multiple Choice

Blended learning

• mainly benefits older or retired people

• involves mainly face to face classes.

• is mainly for teaching and nursing.

• is convenient for working people.

Multiple Choice

The challenges of work-based learning include

• practical issues like when classes are held.

• students who are not very experienced.

• more types of learning are acceptable

• older people can't use computers well.