Reading
Reading 4 - ELP:
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Learning Objectives:
By the end of this class I can:
understand rules and regulations (e.g. safety) if expressed in simple language.
identify specific information in simple letters, brochures and short articles.
understand short, simple personal emails and letters.
understand reports of travel delays and cancellations.
make basic inferences from simple information in a short text.
understand simple factual titles and headlines relating to common events.
identify specific information in a simple factual text.
understand the instructions to buy tickets online.
understand short, simple narratives and biographies.
scan a simple text, identifying the main topic(s).
follow the sequence of actions or events in a text on a familiar everyday topic.
understand the main information from simple diagrams (e.g. graphs, bar charts).
Tasks
Look through mail and rank it according to some priority. Read the menu from a popular family restaurant (not fast food restaurant). Make choices depending on for whom you are ordering, what time of day, and how much you are willing to pay. Find in the White Pages phone numbers for organizations with names like “E.E.B. Signs Ltd.". Find the number for transit information. Identify the purpose and topic of various brochures and flyers; sort them into categories. Read a simple formal letter from school, training program, settlement agency. Read a brief, straightforward announcement of public event.
Read a short newspaper article. Read a simple brochure, flyer. Read classified newspaper ads, including job ads. Sort junk mail into " must read carefully - maybe needs action" and "throw into the recycling box". Read short passages on popular science, health and technology. Read stories of other people’s life journeys. Read short children’s stories and nursery rhymes with your children. Follow instructions for playing a family board game with your children. Read specific long-term weather information and forecasts to decide what to pack for various trips.