General:

OBJECTIVES
Read and comprehend information presented in written
form in a variety of different contexts.
Develop our critical thinking skills.
Analyze different resources and strategies for practice
and development of reading comprehension skills.
Specific:
Identify and extract main ideas from a text read.
Identify and extract specific information from a text read.


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LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE FOLLOWING
IMAGE AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1. Describe the image: What do you see?

2. What message is this image trying to convey?

3. What are your thoughts/feelings?

A PROTEST OR CRITIQUE AGAINST FAST
FASHION AND ITS HARMFUL
CONSEQUENCES
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1. Fast Fashion
2. Mass production
3. Cheap clothing
4. Clothing waste
5. Landfill
1. Fast Fashion
2. Mass production: Production of large quantity of
products at a low cost, using machines in a factory.
3. Cheap clothing
4. Clothing waste
5. Landfill: A system of trash and garbage disposal in
which the waste is buried between layers of earth.
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EXERCISE 3 - ADVANCED LEVEL

Instructions:

1. Read the text carefully

2. Answer the questions

 Fast
Fashion
and
Waste
According to the text

1. What is the main idea of the text?

2. What do big fashion corporations want us to do?

3. What are fast fashion brands trying to do?

4. How many kg of clothing does a family throw

away each year?

 PRE READING
STRATEGIES
PREDICT CONNECT
What is the text Relate the text with
your own knowledge
going to be about?
of the topic
 WHILE READING
STRATEGIES
ASK DETERMINE
QUESTIONS IMPORTANCE
What ?
VISUALIZE Main Ideas
When? Create mental Secondary Ideas
Why? images/scenarios Specific info
How? Details
 POST READING
STRATEGIES
PURPOSE INFERENCE
Identify the author's Draw conclusions
intention using clues

SUMMARIZE
Synthetize main ideas to
draw conclusions and form
your own opinions
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ADVANCED LEVEL
RESOURCES
1. Reading online newspapers and magazines

2. Reading books
3. Reading essays

4. Reading and analysing studies, reports, experiments, etc.

5. Reading and discussing any type of text with your

classmates (academic, journalistic, literary texts, etc.)