Teach english new edition r

C Reading skills 
(pages 100-101)
Match the skills with the reading aims.
Reading for detailed 
comprehension
Reading for pleasure
Scanning
Skimming
You are an 18-year-old history student. In a school history 
magazine you see an article about reassessing the Cold War 
in terms of Third World politics.
You are trying to decide what movie to take your 7-year- 
old niece to see. You check your local newspaper.
When you are in the dentist’s waiting room, you see an 
article about your favourite singer in a magazine.
You have heard about a singer/artist and you are mildly 
interested in their life. You look them up on the Internet 
when you don’t have much else to do.
Jeremy Harmer 
How to Teach English
© Pearson Education Limited 2007
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D Reading sequences 
(pages 102-107)
Look at the reading text and answer the questions which follow.
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Your sleep and you
Miriam Ketlaway reports
How much beauty sleep do you need? According 
to Philip Sedgew ick, research fellow at the Sleep 
Disorders Clinic at the Department of Mental Health 
at St George’s Hospital, most of us need roughly 
eight hours a night if we want to stay healthy. And 
we need to have a regular routine too.
Problems for tired people:
• more chance of bugs and infections
• shift workers (people who work at different times of day and night) get more 
infectious d iseases than the rest of us.
• more chance of stress
• more need for energy food like chocolate, coffee, etc. Students in the USA say 
tiredness causes overeating. In a survey of hospital nurses across the country, 
ninety per cent of those w orking on the night shift gained weight.
• irritability, grum piness
REM & Non-REM
• REM stands for Rapid Eye Movement.
That’s the time we dream , when we 
sort out all the m em ories, thoughts 
and feelings in our head. Non-REM is 
often called Deep Sleep.
• without REM people become 
forgetful, irritable and less able to 
concentrate.
• deep sleep provides us with physical 
and mental recovery.
Canadian sleep researcher Harvey Modofsky, at the Toronto Western Hospital took 
blood from sleeping people and he found that sleeping bodies were fighting 
infection better than those that were aw ake and in a recent study of 9,000 adults 
in the UK, those who slept between six and a half and eight and a half hours a 
night were more healthy than those who slept less.
a What level do you think it might be suitable for? 
b What kind of comprehension tasks could you do with it? 
c How would you get students 
engaged
with the topic of the text?
d What language, if any, would you focus the students’ attention on in the reading text for a 
study
exercise?
e What would you do after the students had read the text?
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Jeremy Harmer 
H ow to Teach English
© Pearson Education Limited 2007
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Things not to do in bed (according to
sleep experts):
• eat
• read
• watch television
• work
• drink caffeine
• sm oke cigarettes
• have alcohol (It interferes with REM 
sleep. It can make you tired and 
irritable the m orning after the night 
before.)

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