3 Developing reading skills
4 a  Look at the picture and the title of the article.
1 Work in groups. Discuss these questions.
1 What do you read in your language?
2 Do you read in English outside class? If so, what
do you read?
3 What was the last thing you read in English?
2 Match the types of reading a–e to reading
skills 1–5.
a   read a long magazine article very quickly
b   decide whether to read an article from the title
and the pictures
c   read a unit in a textbook you are studying
for an exam
d   understand unknown words in a story
e   read a TV guide to find what time your
favourite programme is on
1 guessing the meaning of words from the context
2 reading to get a general idea (the gist) of what
a text is about (skimming)
3 predicting what a text is about before you read it
4 looking through a text quickly to find the
information you want (scanning)
5 reading a text carefully for detailed understanding
3 a  Tick how you deal with words you don’t
know when you are reading.
1 I don’t worry about them.
2 I guess the meaning of each word.
3 I underline them and look them up at the end.
4 I choose four or five important words and look
them up.
b  Work in pairs. Compare answers.
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What do you think the article is about?
b  Read the article quickly. Were you correct?
c  Find the name of the product and how much
it costs.
d  Find words 1–5 in the article. Can you guess
what they mean?
e  Read the article again and answer questions
1–4.
1 What does the key finder do?
2 What do you get when you buy one?
3 How does it work?
4 Does the thing you’ve lost have to be in the house?
Where are my keys?
The remote control, your reading glasses,
your mobile phone and house keys have
one thing in common – they’re easily lost.
This always seems to happen at the worst
possible moment, just as you are 1rushing
to catch a plane or a train, or when you’re
trying to get to a meeting on time.
Now you can get some electronic help and
buy a key finder. The EasyFind 4-Way Key
Tracker includes a hand-held remote control
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and some small circular 2stickers that you put
on your keys. This new improved key finder
sends a digital radio message out to the stickers.
Finding the lost item is easy: 3press the button
on the remote control and the sticker will make
a noise, which tells you where the lost 4item is.
This makes it much easier to find
things that are lost outside, in
the garden or in the street,
because it has a 5range of up
to 25 metres.
The EasyFind 4-Way Key
Tracker costs about £40 and
is in the shops now.
5 a Match 4a–e to reading skills 1–5 in 2.
b  Work in pairs. Compare answers.
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