Subskills snakes and ladders

You look for your friend’s email address in the

address book of your computer.

(reading for specific information)

• scanning

• skimming

• extensive reading

You read a letter from a long-lost friend, telling

you all about her life these days.

• Scanning

• Reading for detail

• Extensive reading

You spend a cosy afternoon on the sofa at home

with your favourite magazine

• Extensive reading

• Skimming

• Reading for detail

Your friend has written an article for the local

newspaper and has asked you to read it and think

of a good title for it – in the next 3 minutes!

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Reading in detail

You receive an email from an old friend who you

haven’t heard from in a long time. She gives a few

details of her recent life, but you want to know if

she is feeling happy at the moment

• Intensive reading

• Extensive reading

• Read for mood / infer attitude

You have to teach phrasal verbs based on the

verb hang to your class. You’re not sure about

all the meanings so you look up hang in the

dictionary and fi nd lots of example sentences.

• Extensive reading

• Proofreading

• Intensive reading (focus on language)

After composing an email to your colleague, you

click on all the words the computer highlights as

being wrong, and scan the options for the word

you meant to write.

• Using correct layout

• Proofreading

• Read for mood / infer attitude

You’re writing a letter to an English-speaking

pen friend, and begin by writing your address

in the top right-hand corner.

• Brainstorming

• Using correct layout

• Proofreading

You enter a class competition to write the best

opening line for next week’s creative writing

essay. You spend ages brainstorming adjectives

to make an impact

• Brainstorming

• Joining sentences correctly

• Proofreading

Your teacher marks RO in several places on a

paragraph you wrote. This means ‘run sentence on’

in her correction code, so you work on improving

these errors.

• Using correct layout

• Brainstorming

• Joining sentences correctly