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UNIT 2 : TALKING ABOUT HOLIDAYS
READING WORKSHOP TASK 1- TRAVEL

Compétences travaillées :
-peut lire des textes factuels directs sur des sujets relatifs à son domaine et à ses intérêts avec un niveau
satisfaisant de compréhension.
-comprendre des documents écrits de nature et de difficultés variées issus de sources diverses.
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document sonore.

Your task : Read the text and try to understand. Then do the activities.

Reading comprehension strategies

¾ Read the title and predict what the text might be about.

¾ Look at any illustration. What do they tell you about the topic ?
¾ Look at the text over and note its lenght, organization, source to identify the type of

document. Pay attention to the punctuation.
¾ Read for gist (= read the text to get the general idea of its content : who ? What ?

When ? WHere ?)

¾ Read a second time ± more closely.
¾ Read the questions completely

¾ Scan the text to look for answers only one question at a time.
¾ :KHQ \RX FRPH WR D ZRUG \RX GRQ¶W NQRZ WU\ WR infer (deduce ; guess) its meaning by

examining the context clues or the word parts (suffixes, prefixes, root words).

Dictionaries should only be used as a last resort

Then check the correction and fill in your What I learned Box with the new vocabulary.