Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part Contents A TEACHERS’ NOTES A1 Lesson Plan A2 Classroom Handout A3 Classroom Handout A4 Classroom Handout A5 Classroom Handout 1, and - Answer Key A6 Suggested homework/self study activities B GUIDANCE FOR FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part A TEACHERS’ NOTES Description Time required: 50 minutes Materials required: Classroom Handout – one per pair of students Classroom Handout – one per pair of students the sentences should be cut up before the lesson and kept separate from the text Classroom Handout To practise the skills required for Part of the First Reading Exam by focusing on identifying grammatical and lexical clues Aims: A1 Lesson Plan Warmer: Write ‘Harrods offers all things for all people, everywhere’ Elicit or explain that Harrods is a famous London department store Ask students what they think of the statement – it is quite ambitious Elicit the kind of things students think that Harrods might not be able to sell Timing: mins Give out A2 Classroom Handout Ask students to read the passage and find three animals that Harrods sells Which animal they think this story is going to be about and why? (Answers: cat, dog, lion; lion – because there is a lot of background information about the lion) Timing: mins Explain that in Part of Cambridge First Reading candidates have to read a passage and put some sentences in the correct position in the passage To this they need to use their knowledge of reading and of the English Language to help them When they first look at the gaps (before looking at the missing sentences), they need to think about what kind of information might come in the gaps They need to identify the topic area and predict the information In pairs, ask students to look at the gaps in the reading passage (A2 Classroom Handout 1) and make some notes in the gaps of the kind of information that might be missing Remind them to look at the sentences before and after the gaps as this information could be helpful in making a prediction Timing: 15 mins © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part Go through the predictions as a class On the board, write down any sensible predictions based on the sentences before and after the gap See Suggested Answers in A5: Classroom Handout 1, and - Answer Key Timing: mins Then give out A3: Classroom Handout - the missing sentences for the students to put in the correct gaps – it shouldn’t be too difficult following the previous exercise Answers (1B, 2D, 3E, 4A, 5C) Timing: mins Explain that in the Part of the First Reading exam there will be seven sentences missing from the text and candidates have to choose from sentences plus an additional sentence (distracter) It is therefore more difficult, and candidates should not rely on selecting sentences by using just the topic They should also look for: lexical clues, repetition of a word in a previous sentence or a paraphrase of that word; grammatical clues – for example a word (often a pronoun) that refers back to the subject or object of the previous sentence Give out the complete text with the missing sentences highlighted (A4: Classroom Handout 3) and ask students to find an example of a lexical clue and a grammatical clue (See detailed list of lexical and grammatical clues in A5 Classroom Handout 1, and – Answer Key) After you have highlighted one lexical clue and one grammatical clue to the class, let them look for other clues on their own and compare with a partner Check answers together Timing: 15 mins © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part A2 Classroom Handout In August, 1969, four lion cubs were born in a small zoo in the south-west of England There were three females and a male (1)………………………………………………… In October, when the summer was over and the tourists had gone, the cubs were sold Two of the females were bought by a circus (2)………………………………………………… Three months earlier, in May, 1969, two young Australian men, Anthony (‘Ace’) Bourke and John Rendall, had left Australia for the first time They had finished university and had done a number of jobs (3) ……………………………………………………………………………… They visited the usual tourist attractions like the Tower of London, and then, one day, they went to Harrods Harrods was a very special department store The owners of Harrods used to proudly say that the store offered ‘all things for all people, everywhere’ At that time, there was even a zoo in the shop (4) ………………………………………………………………………………… They went to the zoo on the second floor to see the animals for sale And there, in a small cage between the cats and the dogs, they saw the two lion cubs The female cub seemed bad-tempered and showed her teeth to shoppers who looked at her Her brother seemed quite easy-going (5)……………………………………………………… Ace and John immediately fell in love with him They sat down beside the cage and stayed there for hours - © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part A3 Classroom Handout Missing Sentences (cut these sentences up before the lesson) A Ace and John wanted to see if they could really buy ‘anything’ in Harrods B Their father, Butch, came from Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands and their mother, Mary, from a zoo in Jerusalem, Israel C He didn’t pay attention to anybody D The other female and the male were bought by Harrods, a very famous department store in London E After travelling on their own around Europe in search of adventure, Ace and John met up again in London © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part A4 Classroom Handout A Lion Called Christian’ by Anthony Burke & John Rendall In August, 1969, four lion cubs were born in a small zoo in the south-west of England There were three females and a male (1) Their father, Butch, came from Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands and their mother, Mary, from a zoo in Jerusalem, Israel In October, when the summer was over and the tourists had gone, the cubs were sold Two of the females were bought by a circus (2) The other female and the male were bought by Harrods, a very famous department store in London Three months earlier, in May, 1969, two young Australian men, Anthony (‘Ace’) Bourke and John Rendall, had left Australia for the first time They had finished university and had done a number of jobs (3) After travelling on their own around Europe in search of adventure, Ace and John met up again in London They visited the usual tourist attractions like the Tower of London, and then, one day, they went to Harrods Harrods was a very special department store The owners of Harrods used to proudly say that the store offered ‘all things for all people, everywhere’ At that time, there was even a zoo in the shop (4) Ace and John wanted to see if they could really buy ‘anything’ in Harrods They went to the zoo on the second floor to see the animals for sale And there, in a small cage between the cats and the dogs, they saw the two lion cubs The female cub seemed bad-tempered and showed her teeth to shoppers who looked at her Her brother seemed quite easy-going (5) He didn’t pay attention to anybody Ace and John immediately fell in love with him They sat down beside the cage and stayed there for hours © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part A5 Classroom Handout 1, and - Answer Key For Stage of lesson plan Here are some suggestions for the kind of information the students might predict: some other information about the lion family what happened to the other two (only two out of four lions mentioned in the preceding sentence) something about their jobs/something about them coming to London something about Ace and Jon going to Harrods (because of ‘They’ in line following) some other information about the male lion Classroom Handout Lexical clues Grammatical clues (1) father/mother refers to the family – the parents of the cubs (1) Their father/mother – refers back to the cubs (2) female and male – matches lexis in previous sentence (2) The other – two of the cubs have been mentioned but there were four cubs… (3) travelling, Europe, adventure – follows on from previous sentence, which is talking about them finishing studying and leaving Australia Ace and John – repetition of names introduced in previous sentence London is introduced in this sentence and then expanded on in the next sentence (4) anything in sentence is a paraphrase of ‘all things for all people, everywhere’ Harrods – repetition of store name (5) didn’t pay attention to anybody is more an expansion on ‘easy-going’ and contrasts to (5) He – refers back to ‘her brother’ the behaviour of the female cub © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part A6 Suggested homework/self study activities Get students to look at/read books as much as possible The more exposure they have to different types of texts, the more confident they will become with this part of the exam As a follow on activity, ask your students to select a page of text from a reader (make them a photocopy of their chosen page to work on) At home or in the next class students can select sentences to delete from the text – ask them to write their sentences on strips of paper before deleting them from the main text by using tippex or a strip from a sticky label They can then give the activity to another student in the class to When students the activity, make sure that they are following the procedure used in this lesson – trying to predict what comes in the gaps before matching the missing sentences, then checking by looking for lexical and grammatical clues This can then lead into doing a practice exam task Students will have found this lesson and accompanying activities easier than an exam task – this will hopefully have built their confidence and helped them to focus on the skills required for doing this part of the exam © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of Practising Cambridge English First Reading Part B GUIDANCE FOR FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES The text for this activity was taken from a reader at Upper Intermediate level (A Lion Called Christian, Scholastic) If you want to a similar activity to this one, it is good to choose a reader at this level You will then know that the language used is appropriate for your students Note that you can also find samples of readers online at publisher’s websites For example, http://www.cambridge.org/gb/elt/catalogue/subject/project/custom/item2505731/ Cambridge-English-Readers-Sample-chapters/?site_locale=en_GB¤t Level is FCE level If the class are all reading a specific reader in class, you could take a passage from the next chapter and a gap-fill as a warmer to review the exam skills they need This will then lead in to talking about the story © UCLES 2012 This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made For further information see our Terms of Use at https://www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org/ts/terms Practising FCE Reading Part www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org Page of