8 Predicting content Dealing with the distractors in multiple choice tasks When you read a new text, first look at the title and subtitle and try to predict what the text will be about. Predicting is an important reading strategy because it helps you to use what you already know about a topic to think about what will come next. It helps you to better understand what you are reading and make connections to it. Below is the title of an online news article. What do you think the article will discuss? 1 Read the following paragraph from a diary entry about a student’s first day at her new school. Then do the task on the next page. 3 a 1 how teachers have inspired the government to improve educational policy 2 how teachers feel about the changes that are going to take place in education 3 how teachers are dealing with the new educational policies that have been introduced Look at the following headings and consider ‘who’ and ‘what’ the texts will be about. Think of five or six words you might find in each text. 1 IT lessons to become compulsory in kindergarten 2 University degrees – to study or not to study? 3 Will increased budget for state schools mean increase in teaching standards? 4 Students leaving school with fewer qualifications than ever before 5 Report finds extracurricular activities vital for mental health of students 2 Today was the day I’d been dreading for so long – the day I joined Year 9 at Woodford Comprehensive. I needn’t have worried, though, ’cos it was nowhere as awful as I thought it’d be. My new classmates seem like an awesome bunch, and hopefully I’ll soon have some good friends. The teachers I’ve met so far seem pretty easy-going – not as strict about stuff as the teachers in my last school. A welcome change! And it seems that students at Woodford have a bigger say about how their lessons work than students in some other schools do. I met my form teacher too and he seems to treat his students really well. So far so good then! I think I’m going to like it there. Well, apart from the early starts that is – lessons begin at 8, so on school days I now have to get up at 6.30! Sigh! Helpless teachers anxiously wait for news on huge educational policy changes News News News News News News 1 September School and education | Key Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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