MOVE AHEAD LEVEL 1

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR UNIT 8 TEACHERS NOTES

Activity 8.1
Language Focus:
Skills Focus:
Time (approx):
Preparation:

The language of facts.

Reading
1520 minutes
Photocopy Worksheet 8 for each student.

Procedure

Ask your students to get into pairs to tackle the activity.

Ask your students to fold the worksheet so that they can see the statements but not the text passages.
Ask them to read the eight statements on Worksheet 8, and take a guess at whether each one is true or false,
without having read the text passage. (This guess first approach makes the activity a bit more interesting than a
straightforward reading comprehension.)
Now tell your students to read the text passage, and check their answers.
When they have finished, go through the answers as a class, discussing who guessed what correctly.

Answer Key
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8.

False (Its Washington D.C.)

True.
True.
True.
True
False (He was one of the first presidents.)
True.
False (You can see the faces of famous presidents.)

Extra Activity
You might like to ask your students to find out about another country in the world and write some sentences like the
ones on Worksheet 8, as a project. Remember, some of the sentences should be true and some false. Each true/false
challenge could then be posted around the classroom, along with a copy of the information source, for other students
to try.

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LEVEL 1 UNIT 8