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TEACHER: SUBJECT: ENGLISH GRADE: TENTH

ANGLICA GARCA
TIME: 3 hours.
READING STRATEGY: SKIMMING
GOAL: To learn and to implement skimming strategy for Reading Comprehension
READING COMPREHENSION:
Identify the general idea of a reading selection.

COGNITIVE COMPETENCE (Basic): Differentiates the use of modal verbs among

obligation, ability and request (should, must, have to, can, may, might and could).
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: Expresses different views of the world (modes)
according to situational conditions (obligation, ability, request, permission)
NAME OF THE STUDENT: _____________________________________________
DATE: ____________________________________________________
READING
1. Look at situations 1-8. Are they describing natural states or human
activity?
2. USE MODAL VERBS FOR YOUR ORAL REPORT.
a. Why do people damage the environment? What is their motivation?
b. Which of these problems are easy to solve? Which ones are difficult?
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1. We can cut down the forest and sell 2. The Amazon forest is essential
the wood to create hundreds of jobs for because the trees convert much of the
local people. worlds CO2 to oxygen.

oxygen.

4. The waste from the factory has to go

3. The river provides clean water for
fish, birds and other animals. somewhere so we put it in the rivers.

5. We use pesticides to protect our 6. Bees are essential to pollinate plants

apples, grapes and pears. They kill most and flowers. We cannot replicate their
insects. behaviour in an artificial way.

8. There is a beautiful new hotel next

7. Turtles lay their eggs on this beach to the beach. Everyone wants to come
because there are no predators here. here on holiday now.
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3. LETS READ
Use reading strategies.

A. Look at the pictures. What do you think the text is going to be about?

B. Read the text about Vicky and Dan and complete the chart, using skimming strategy.

READING TIPS

1. Use the title of the reading for guessing the topic.

2. Read the first sentences or paragraph quite carefully. The beginning
often contains general information about the rest of the text.
3. Sometimes the first paragraph is only an introduction and the second
paragraph contains the main idea.
4. After that, you should look at the beginning of each paragraph
5. If it is necessary, read some key words.
6. Skip some paragraphs, if they are not important.
7. You should usually read the last paragraph more carefully. The
author often summarizes the main idea at the end.
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C. Complete the following chart.

QUESTIONS SKIMMING ACTIVITY

1. What is the text about?

2. What do Vicky and Dan do?
3. What is the situation?
4. What is the mean idea of the text?
5. How many people are telling us the
story?
6. What kind of reading is it?
7. What is the task?

D. Read the story again about Vicky and Dan. Complete the story with sentences
a-g. There is one extra sentence.

a. I cried when it was positive.

b. We didnt want to put her up for adoption.
c. We never used any form of birth control.
d. I sometimes had late ones in the past, like every girl.
e. I met him at a drama club after school.
f. Dad left the living room.
g. I just didnt always take it regularly, like you should do.
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Vicky and Dans story: parents at 16!

Dan was my first boyfriend. (1).

__________________________I thought he was really funny
and so when he asked me out, I said yes. I was so happy.
After six months, we slept together for the first time. What
can I say? I fell in love. The thing is that we did use
contraception. I was taking the pill. (2)
______________________________________________ I
forgot and thats how I got pregnant at 16. In the beginning I
wasnt very worried when I missed my period. (3)
_____________________________________________ This one was very late. Finally,
Dan bought a pregnancy test. We waited for the result of the test
together. (4) _______________________________________________________________
When I told my parents, they were very disappointed. (5)
_____________________________ He couldnt speak for half an hour. But since then,
theyve been very supportive. We all talked about it with a counsellor. The counsellor gave
us very good advice. In the end, we agreed to get married and to keep the baby. (6)
__________________________________________________
Now, we are living in my parents flat and were looking after our lovely daughter, Hope.
Dan is a good dad, but were tired all the time. Thankfully, my brother is pleased to be an
uncle and he
helps us a lot too. It was a mistake, but now Im a mum, I know what real love is.

RESOURCES:
Copies
Video
TV
Flascards
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chamot Anna, Methods for Teaching Learning Strategies in the foreign language
classroom and assessment of language skills for instruction, 1993, pages 35-39.
Mikulecky Beatrice S, Jeffries Linda, More Reading Power,(1996), Pages 132-
136.
Ministerio de Educacin, English Please, (2016), pages 57, 110, 116, 132 and
139.
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