ФОРМА УЧАСТНИКА КОНКУРСА CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH TEACHER
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Activity title: |
Reading for important information |
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Skill(s): |
Reading |
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Level(s): |
B1 |
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Exam part: |
Reading Part 4 |
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Aim(s): |
- to practice reading - to develop the skill of skimming a reading text for important information |
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Materials needed: |
- worksheet with adapted text and tasks |
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Preparation: |
- finding or adapting authentic text - writing a list of new difficult words (if needed) - making worksheet and printing them |
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Procedure: Step 1. Reading the text for the first time to get a general understanding Step 2. Searching for the main idea of each paragraph Step 3. Reading the sentences that you have to put in the gaps Step 4. Searching for the main words in the sentences Step 5. Trying to compare the main ideas with the main words Step 6. Filling in the in the gaps Step 7. Reading the text and checking |
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Variation(s) |
Depending on the level of students' proficiency in a foreign language, you can either not write a list of difficult words or, conversely, write as many difficult words as possible with a translation as a hint |
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Reflections |
After completing the task, discuss with the students which step of completing the task seemed to them the most difficult, in order to focus on its development in the future. |
Worksheet
Task: Read the text and fill in the gaps with the appropriate sentences given below.
Fire Crews Hunt Escaped Hamster*
Eight firefighters have been called in to help find an escaped hamster. Two crews used a chocolate-covered camera and a vacuum cleaner A ____ , called Fudgie, at the home of a six-year-old girl in Dunbar, Scotland.
The girl's mother said: 'We came down for breakfast and discovered Fudgie had opened the top lid of her cage and had made her way into the kitchen and we think she has gone В ____ .'
The fire crews spent five hours trying to recover the pet after it ran down a hole in the kitchen floor. But, the hamster still refused С ____ .
In the search for Fudgie, the firefighters took the family cooker and gas pipes apart. They also dropped a mini-camera coated with chocolate under the floorboards. They then hoped to take out the hamster using a vacuum cleaner. Despite all their efforts, they failed to find Fudgie.
In the end, the firefighters put another camera down the hole D ____ , connected to the screen of the family home computer, to see if Fudgie appeared. Besides, the girl and her parents regularly dropped food E ____ .
At last, after eight days the hamster returned to her cage safe and sound. She crawled from the hole in the kitchen floor early in the morning. It was the girl's father who first found Fudgie F ____ .
The girl said that day it was like Christmas morning for her. Her parents added that they too felt extremely happy when Fudgie had finally returned.
- through a small hole in the floor
- through the hole for the hamster
- and locked the runaway hamster
- to come out of the hole
- to try and locate the missing hamster
- and left it under the floorboards
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* Источник: https://en-ege.sdamgia.ru/test?theme=29