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Handout: Which type of reading?
Participants activity 1

Read the questions first. Then read the four passages about four cities quickly and
selectively to find the answers.

1. In which city was a new theatre built recently?

2. Which city has the largest percentage of postgraduate students?

Participants activity 2

You are going to read part of the autobiography of a surfing instructor. For
questions 19, choose from the sections AE. You have 5 minutes to complete
these questions.

In which section does the writer mention:

1. feeling satisfaction that her determination resulted in better performance?

2. a change that helped her pursue her hobby?

Participants activity 3

You have 1 minute to quickly read through the 1,000-word article and respond to
the following question:

What is this text about?

A.

B.

C.

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Participants activity 4

Read this extract from a novel. For questions 3136, choose the correct answer.

33 What does the writer suggest about Sandys clothes?

A. They made it unlikely that she would be spotted.

B. She was wearing them because she belonged to a skiing team.

C. They were too heavy for the conditions.

D. She had chosen them with care.

UNDERSTANDING READING ASSESSMENT 3

Handout: What do we do when we read?

Understandthe
Recogniseand
basic meaningofa
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Understandimplied
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Understandand Understand
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combine informationacross
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informationacross sentences ora
awholetext
texts paragraph

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Handout: Which cognitive processes?
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought.
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

From Carroll (1872) Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Participants activity 5

You are going to read four reviews of a book. For questions 14 choose from
reviews AD.

Which reviewer:
1. has a different opinion from the others on Smiths work?
2. expresses a similar view to reviewer B on modern architecture?

UNDERSTANDING READING ASSESSMENT 5

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Participants activity 7

UNDERSTANDING READING ASSESSMENT 7

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Handout: Pros and cons
Information transfer task

UNDERSTANDING READING ASSESSMENT 9

Integrated skills tasks
Example:

Read this passage and write a summary in your own words.

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