Lesson title: Cycle 2, Reading Session: Understanding Materials:

Charts (Review)
References:
Lesson Objectives: https://preply.com/en/blog/20
1. To demonstrate the ability of noting details and 18/08/17/ charts-graphs-
analyzing information from diagrams and and-diagrams-in-the-
graphs. presentation/
2. To self-evaluate needs in reading comprehension skills.

Productivity Tip: You should be comfortable when you’re working. Try to do a few
stretching exercises to help loosen up your joints and muscles. Stand straight, lift your
arms straight up as high as you can reach and hold this position for at least 20 seconds.
Repeat. Now with feet shoulder width apart, bend forward and touch your toes. Hold for
10 seconds and then repeat. Do stretches like these and more at least after every hour of
sitting down.

Welcome to session 6! This is the start of Cycle 2. One cycle will have the 4 macro language skills of
Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. Today is a reading session.

A. LESSON REVIEW/PREVIEW
Activity 1: Review (5 mins)
Draw an example of a bar graph. Make sure it has a title and has labels for the Y-axis and
the X-axis.

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Activity 2. Linking the Lines (5 mins)
Individual task. Study the chart and answer the questions below.

How many hotdogs were sold on the weekends? _________________________

How many hotdogs were sold on Mondays and Fridays? _________________________
On which days were the hotdogs sold most? _________________________

Check your answers against the Key to Corrections. Write your score here: _______

B. DEVELOPING THE SKILL

Activity 3: Concept Notes (10 mins)
Read and understand. Underline important information about charts.

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 Pie charts show how a whole is divided into various parts. It shows percentage distribution.

Where Money Goes

Other expenditure, AED Health and personal
23,000,000,000.00 social services AED,
Housing, heritage, and AED 53,000,000,000.00

Debt interest, AED

23,000,000,000.00
Transport, AED
9,000,000,000.00

Defence, AED
22,000,000,000.00

Industry, agriculture,
and employment, AED
13,000,000,000.00

Social Security, AED

Education, AED 100,000,000,000.00
38,000,000,000.00

Law and Order, AED

17,000,000,000.00

The pie chart shows the national expenditure of the United Arab Emirates government in 2000.
Generally speaking, the UAE government had a budget of over 300 billion AED and the highest
portion of this budget was spent on social security and health & social services.
As is given in the diagram, the UAE government spent more than 300 billion AED in ten different
sectors in 2000. Social security for the citizens cost the highest budget and it was exactly 100
billion AED. Health and personal social services, on the other hand, required more than 50 billion
and this was the second largest budget money allocation for the UAE government in 2000. The UAE
authority used 38 billion for education, 17 billion for law and order and 13 billion for job, industry,
and agriculture.

Defense sector cost them 22 billion which was slightly lower than the debt interests the
government paid in this year. Housing, heritage, and environment got 15 billion which was nearly
the same as it was allocated for law and order. Finally, 9 billion was spent on the transportation
sector and 23 million for the sectors which are not specifically mentioned in the chart.
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Activity 4: Check for understanding (5 mins)
This will take a little bit of math. How will you show this data in a pie chart: There are 60 students
in a class. Half the class likes pizza. Fifteen others like burgers, 10 like pasta, and the rest like salad.

Activity 5: Practice Test (25 mins)

Activity 5.1 Reading Comprehension Test
1. When you are ready, flip to the Reading Test found at the end this SAS.
2. Read the test materials carefully and answer the questions as best as you can. Work only on
questions #1-21.
3. Write the letter of your answers in the “answer sheet” below.
4. Time yourself. After 20 mins, finished or not, stop working and proceed to the next activity
which is checking your work. Score: ____________
1 11 21
2 12 22
3 13 23
4 14 24
5 15 25
6 16 26
7 17 27
8 18 28
9 19 29
10 20 30

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 Activity 6: Checking your work
1. Check your work.
2. Give yourself 1 point for every correct answer. Write the number of points you get at the top
of the page.
3. Study the explanation for answers, especially for answers that you got wrong. This will guide
your thinking for the next practice test.

THINKING ABOUT LEARNING

Activity 7: My Learning
1. How well did you do in the practice test?
_________________________________________________________
2. What do you think affected your performance?
_________________________________________________________

3. Aside from reviewing your work and testing yourself again, what else can you do to maintain
or improve your reading comprehension skills?
_________________________________________________________

KEY TO CORRECTIONS
Activity 2

How many hotdogs were sold on the

weekends?
9 Hotdogs
How many hotdogs were sold on Mondays
and Fridays?
5 hotdogs
On which days were the hotdogs sold
most?
Sunday

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Activity 4

Salad Food Preferences

8%

Pasta
17%

Pizza
50%

Burgers
25%

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