Supplementary Activities
READING
UNIT 1
Exercise A
Look at the titles, sub-headings and opening paragraphs of some of the articles in
a newspaper or magazine.
Pick some that you think are helpful to the reader and some that are not.
Cut out the complete articles and take them into class.
Discuss the articles as a group, by referring to the orientation questions in this unit.
Can you improve on any of the titles/sub-headings?
Exercise В
Pick an article from a journal or magazine that you think has a good introduction.
Cut off the title, sub-heading and first paragraph.
Exchange these with a partner.
Discuss what you would expect to read about in your partner's article.
Read the whole of your partner's article when you have finished your discussions.
Find an article in a newspaper or magazine that contains a lot of factual
information.
Write five questions on the article.
Check with your teacher that you have chosen the right sort of information to test
and make sure that the questions can be answered using three words or less.
Exchange your passage and questions with someone else.
IELTS Reading
Using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS, complete the following
sentences using words from the reading passage 'Salty rice plant boosts
harvests' on page 40.
Write your answers in boxes 14-18 on у our answer sheet,
Some farms have been ...(14)... because the soil is too salty.
The research team hope to assist in the adaptation of other ...(15)... to salt water.
Supplementary Activities
...(16)... of farmland is ruined annually.
The team aims to develop rice plants that ...(17)... excess salt.
The team must wait for ...(18)... before they know whether they have been successful.
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