More reading suggestions – HW 2 (individually, written format, submission deadline December 13,

2017)

Find the appropriate ready-made texts or create your own, give task instructions and decide on the
Ss’ knowledge level it can be applied to:

Students read small ads for holidays, partners, things for sale etc, to make a choice. They amplify the
ads into descriptions.

Students read jumbles instructions for a simple operation (using a public phonebox etc.) and have to
put the instructions in the correct order. (elementary/intermediate)

Students read a recipe and after matching instructions with pictures, they have to cook the food.

Students read an extract from a play or film and, after ensuring that they understand it, they have to
work on acting it out.

Students are given a number of words from a text. In groups, they have to predict what kind of a text
they are going to read. They then read the text to see if their original predictions were correct.

Students have to match topic sentences with the paragraph they come from.

Students read a text and have to guess which of a group of people they think wrote the text (using
the pictures provided)

Students read a narrative with the end missing. In groups, they have to supply their own ending.

(intermediate/advanced)

https://linguapress.com/advanced.htm

https://linguapress.com/advanced/story-the-car.htm

Students read a ‘factfile’ about a country, population, machine or process etc. They have to convert
the information into bar graphs or pie charts.

1. Look at the ads and create a text based on it. (intermediate/advanced)

Students read jumbles instructions for a simple operation (using a public phonebox etc.) and have to
put the instructions in the correct order. (elementary) (intermediate)

Oh no! My computer has muddled up my instructions for making breakfast. Can you put these
instructions in the correct order by numbering them? Thank you for your help.

Wash hands.
Add milk to the bowl.
Take an empty bowl.
Take a spoon.
Put some coco pops in
the bowl.
Eat the cereal.

Students read a recipe and after matching instructions with pictures, they have to cook the food.
(elementary/intermediate)
Students read an extract from a play or film and, after ensuring that they understand it, they have to
work on acting it out. (any level) ?

Students are given a number of words from a text. In groups, they have to predict what kind of a text
they are going to read. They then read the text to see if their original predictions were correct.
(elementary/intermediate)

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/490/reading/floods2-reading.htm

Students have to match topic sentences with the paragraph they come from. (intermediate and
upper intermediate)

https://facweb.northseattle.edu/ssolomon/Grammar%20Writing%203/102_Writing_Booklet_HW_In
troductory.pdf

Read the paragraphs.

Write the number of the topic sentence next to the correct paragraph.

Topic sentences

1. I lived in a small town when I was a child.

2. When I have my own children, I want to move to a small town.

3. The town I live in is very small.

4. There are two main advantages of living in a small town.

Paragraph A: Topic sentence ____

First, you know everyone and everyone knows you. This helps you to feel safe, and it is friendlier.

Secondly, it is quiet and there are fewer cars. This means there is less pollution than in a big town

or city.

Paragraph C: Topic sentence ____

I don’t want my children to live in a big city because a big city is not as friendly or as safe as a

village. I want to move to the village where my grandparents live. The children can play in the

street there and everyone knows each other.

Paragraph B: Topic sentence ____

It was a very nice place to live then. Now it is much bigger than before. More people live there and

some big businesses opened offices there. My parents still live there but they say it was better in

the past.
Paragraph D: Topic sentence ____

There are only a few food shops and one school here. Most people go to the big city to go shopping

for clothes and gifts. There is a doctor’s but there isn’t a hospital. Again, you need to go to the city

if you need the hospital. However, our town is very nice and it has a beautiful park.