Reading and critical thinking

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An online article

  1. Match the words with pictures.

  1. Order the activities of a typical school day in exercise 1. Add three more activities to the list.
  • start school
  • go to sleep
  • have lunch
  • have a break
  • go to school
  • wake up
  • pack my bag
  • go home
  • get dressed
  • get up

Subskill: Predicting from the title and the pictures

Look at photos and the title of a text before you read. This can help you understand what is in the text.

  1. Look at the pictures in Chapter 2.3 and read the title of the article. Answer the questions.
    1. What day and time is it in the pictures?
    2. Why are the students at home?
    3. What daily routine activities do you think the students do? What don’t they do?
  1. Read and listen to the article. What daily routine activities do the students do?

Atidaryti garso įrašo transkripciją

  1. Read the article again. Are the sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
    1. An online school has lessons at fixed times.
    2. Students see the whiteboard on their computer.
    3. They can communicate with the teacher.
    4. Students work on the computer all day.
    5. They see their classmates outside school.
    6. Online students study different subjects from students in other schools.
  1. Complete the sentences.
    1. Jack starts school at .
    2. Abi has her first lesson at .
    3. In the morning, they have .
    4. They have lunch, and then they .
    5. Jack learns about .
    6. They see friends in .
  1. Word work Match the definitions to the words in bold in the text.
  • school trips
  • grades
  • subjects
  • log on
  • classmates
  • library
  1. numbers or letters that show how good schoolwork is
  2. things you learn at school, e.g. maths or English
  3. a place where you can borrow or read books
  4. start to use a computer
  5. students in your class
  6. visits with other students
  1. Complete the sentences with words from exercise 7.
    1. We sometimes go on () to museums or other places of interest.
    2. There’s a big () at my school with lots of books.
    3. Our teacher gives us () from one to ten for our homework.
    4. The first thing we in do in computer classes is () .
    5. I often walk to school with one of my () .
    6. We have science () every Friday morning.

CRITICAL THINKING

  1. Understand Think about online and traditional schools. Find at least two things that are the same and two things that are different.
  2. Evaluate Which of these things is an advantage of an online school? Which is a disadvantage?
  3. Create Think of three advantages of a traditional school.
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