KET and PET Readings in Lessons

Margaret Horrigan

Overview of seminar Ways we read Texts we read KET Reading PET Reading Intensive Reading Tasks for class An example Theory into practice Roundup

Ways we read…

Ways we read

Intensive Extensive Skimming Scanning Top down Bottom up

Reading every single word for meaning

Bringing our world knowledge to the text

Reading to get the main idea

Reading for specific details or items

Reading a lot of different types of texts

Ways we read

Intensive Reading every single word for meaning

Ways we read

Intensive Extensive

Reading every single word for meaningReading a lot of different types of texts

Ways we read

Reading every single word for meaningReading a lot of different types of texts

Intensive Extensive Skimming Reading to get the main idea

Ways we read

Reading every single word for meaningReading a lot of different types of texts

Intensive Extensive Skimming Scanning

Reading to get the main idea

Reading for specific details or items

Ways we read

Reading every single word for meaningReading a lot of different types of texts

Intensive Extensive Skimming Scanning Top down

Reading to get the main idea

Reading for specific details or items

Bringing our world knowledge to the text

Ways we read

Reading every single word for meaningReading a lot of different types of texts

Intensive Extensive Skimming Scanning Top down Bottom up

Reading to get the main idea

Reading for specific details or items

Bringing our world knowledge to the textReading every single word for meaning

Texts we read

Intensive/ Bottom up Extensive Skimming Scanning Top down

1. Notices

2. Newspaper articles

3. Magazine articles

4. Dictionary definitions

5. Postcards

6. Letters

7. Diary entries

8. Messages

9. Adverts

10. Emails

11. Labels

12. Novels

KET Reading Tasks• Insert single words into sentences

• Paraphrase notices from 3 options

• Complete conversations from a choice of prompts

• Insert the correct word from 3 options into a gapfilled text

• Decide if sentences relating to a short text are right or wrong

• Complete a message/note based on information from other adverts/messages

• Write a word based on its definition

• Complete a gapfilled text

PET Reading Tasks

• Match personal profiles to short texts • Paraphrase notices from 3 options • Insert the correct word from 4 options into a

short gapfilled text • Decide if information about an article type

text is correct or not • Choose the correct answers, from 4

options, to questions about a short text

Sometimes we loose

the bigger picture

when we read at word

level!!!

Tasks to enhance intensive reading…

Predicting text content using co-textual information such as headlines/titles/images

Skimming texts for general idea Scanning for specific details Using questions to predict text content Scanning texts for key words used in

questions Inferring meaning to unknown words from

contextual clues Brainstorming vocabulary before reading

Example 1…

•For rent: Spacious 2 bedroom city flat near the underground. Parking spaces infront of flat. No smokers need apply.

•For rent: Quaint old country house, large garden. 4 bedrooms, dining room, parlor, large kitchen with pantry. Outdoor toilet.

•For rent: Large estate house. 10 bedrooms. Ample living quarters. Cellar converted into large home theatre.

•For rent: Small country home. 3 bedrooms with ensuite bathroom in master bedroom. Large garden.

Example 2…

I liked to read what they liked to read:  what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.  They loved theirsequestered home.  I, too, in the grey, small, antique structure,with its low roof, its latticed casements, its mouldering walls, itsavenue of aged firsfirs--all grown aslant under the stress of mountain winds; its garden, dark with yew and holly--and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom--found a charm both potent and permanent. 

Example 3 …

Indoors we ___(1)___ equally well.  They were both more accomplished and ___(2)___ read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path ___(3)___ knowledge they had trodden before me.  I devoured the books they ___(4)___ me:  then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the ___(5)___ what I had perused during the day.  Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion:  we coincided, in short, ___(6)___ .

Strategies used in the Jane Eyre examples Top down: Brainstorming the specific needs of a person from

their picture Intensive: choosing a single text from 4 possibilites based on

key words. Top down: what do you know already about Jane Eyre? Top down: Brainstorming content for the possible titles Scanning: ’How much time did Jane spend reading?’ Skimming: to see if your ideas were mentioned Intensive: inferring meaning to words in the text Intensive: filling in gaps (open cloze test) Intensive: filling in gaps (multiple choice cloze test) Intensive: correct/incorrect statements Extensive: we divided a rather long text into 2 and read them

as completely seperate texts.

Theory into practice

Choose a KET/PET reading Decide how you could get students to

predict text content Use the exam tasks to draw students

into predicting more about the text You have only 5 minutes to do this! You may refer to ideas used in this

seminar to help you!

RoundupWays we read

Texts we read

KET Reading

PET Reading

Intensive Reading

Tasks for class

An example

Theory into practice

Cambridge ESOL Websites

www.CambridgeESOL.it (in Italian)

www.CambridgeESOL.org (in English)