Unit 1 Reading for academic purposes
Tasks
Text 1a: Reading for academic purposes
·Reading for general understanding
·Reading for specific details
·Paragraph reorganisation
·Inferring meaning from context
·Identifying word class
·Reading for a purpose
·Recalling information
·Reflection
Text 1b: The SQ3R reading and study system
·Reading and mind mapping
·Summarising the SQ3R system
Unit 2 Sustainable energy
Tasks
Text 2a: Using waste, Swedish city cuts its fossil fuel use (1)
·Reading for specific information
·Synonyms and word classes
Text 2b: Using waste, Swedish city cuts its fossil fuel use (2)
·Reading for specific information
·Differentiating betweemaiideas and supporting details
·Ways of making notes
·Creating mind maps
·Summarising inote form
Unit 3 The business of science
Tasks
Text 3a: Stop selling out science to commerce
·Fast reading
·Reading for specific details
·Understanding rhetorical questions and identifying the thesis
·Scanning and close reading
·Reading recall
·Inferring meaning from context
·Paragraph reorganisation
·Text-referring words
Text 3b: Is business bad for science?
·Predicting Text content
·Comparing texts and reading for details
·Scanning and close reading
·Identifying and using reporting language
·Understanding and using modifying language
Unit 4 Society today
Tasks
Text 4a: Growing grey
·Considering the title and the introduction
·Considering subheadings and displayed information
·Making notes
·Writing a summary
Text 4b: Well connected? The biological implications of 'social networking'
·Considering the title and abstract
·Reading and making notes
·Making notes and drawing conclusions
·Writing a summary
Unit 5 Food security
Tasks
Text 5a: Diet and sustainability key to feeding the world: A food security report
·Surveying the text
·Search reading: Practising fast, accurate reading
·Identifying functions of the text: Annotating the text
·Examining the writer's choice of language for emphasis
Text 5b: The challenge of feeding 9 billiopeople
·Understanding the Focus task
·Predicting specific content ia text
·Identifying the maiideas
·Developing notes
·Organising paragraphs into a logical order
·Working out meaning from context and considering word class
Text 5c: Closing the yield gap
·Identifying the functioof paragraphs
·Annotating the Text using the Cornell system
Text 5d: Dealing with the situation
·Predicting the content of the text
·Identifying the maiideas: Matching headings to sections
·Identifying and dealing with assumed knowledge
·Making use of displayed information
·Producing notes