This week you will be doing your system-wide quiz for this term. We have already completed unit 6 and are working on unit 7 at the moment. Review new vocabulary and structures that we have learnt so far. We will be doing reading practice exercises in the class, but I want you to try the following additional reading practice material. Most of them are interactice exercises and you will get to see your score/progress immediately after completing the exercise.
STUDY ZONE Try out different levels of reading material.
Reading Comprehension Scroll down and click on a topic of your choice and do the comprehension exercise.
1. www.quizlet.com This web tool allows you to create vocabualry sets of 10 words. Quizlet has its own resource of meanings and pictures to choose from. You can also learn to pronounce these words using this tool.
2. www.spellingcity.com This allows you to create your own set of vocabulary words and have access to exercises based on your vocab set. A very good site to learn spellings, meanings and pronunciation.
Writing a postcard is a veryold holiday tradition. We write postcards to tell our friends what a great time we are having. Holiday postcards are usually short and sweet.
Task1: Read this postcard and tell which word has been repeated a lot.
Task 2: Log in to www.edmodo.com and do Unit5-Writing a postcard exercise1 on using adjectives.
Task 3: Imagine you’re in a beautiful place on a holiday. You are having a wonderful time and you want to share your joy with your friend. What could be a better way than writing a postcard?
Remember to include information about the following:
The weather
The accommodation
Something you did yesterday
Something you are going to do today/tomorrow
Here are a few websites where you can read some example postcards and also get some tips about writing postcards.
People read for various reasons. Some people read for fun, some read to get information and some people read to prepare for a text or exam. Whatever your reason be, it is important to follow reading strategies that will help you to understand things better.
When you get a passage to read, the first thing that you would want to do is to have an overall look and predict what the topic is going to be about. Pictures, headings and side-headings help you to get an overall idea of the passage. Sometimes, you may even have words which are emphasized; these words give you strong clues about the topic you are going to read.
When you read to find the overall idea of a passage you call it skimming or reading for gist. Skimming helps you to find the main idea in a passage.
Scanning on the other hand is reading to find details. When you want a specific piece of information like a date or a name you scan the text carefully to find it.
Today we are going to practice these two skills, skimming and scanning.
Look at the images on page 48 of your text and match the city names with the images.
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Today we are going to review a few vocabulary items that we learned during this term.
When you get a passage to read, the first thing that you would want to do is to have an overall look and predict what the topic is going to be about. Pictures, headings and side-headings help you to get an overall idea of the passage. Sometimes, you may even have words which are emphasized; these words give you strong clues about the topic you are going to read.
Scanning 
