Get ready to read

More activities
1
Explain that before handing in any written work, students 
should read it carefully and correct any spelling mistakes.
2
Give students a piece of written text which contains 
several spelling mistakes and ask them to correct it. 
Alternatively, make a note of all the spelling mistakes in a 
piece of written work that the class has done. Ask students 
to correct the mistakes.
Real Reading 2 by Liz Driscoll
 Teacher’s 
notes

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Unit
13 
How do I join?
Get ready to read
• 
Look at an example with the class. Ask students to underline
I read
or 
I don’t read
so that the sentence is true for them. 
• 
Ask a student to read out his or her sentence. Then ask 
someone who has underlined the other words to read out his 
or her sentence. Encourage other students who read a lot to 
say 
Me too
and other students who don’t read a lot to say 
Me 
neither,
 
as appropriate.
A
Joining a library
1
Give students two or three minutes to write down their 
questions. Then invite individual students to read out a 
question each.
Learning tip
Tell students to imagine that they might have to explain what 
they have read to someone else. This will encourage them to try 
and put diffi cult parts of a text into their own words.
2
Make the point that true/false statements, like those in this 
exercise, are examples of putting the text into different/
simpler words. Check the answers with the class. Ask one 
student to say whether the sentence is true or false and 
another student to give the reason.
3
Students write the answers to the questions they wrote in 
Exercise 2. 
As a follow-up, students can work in pairs. They can ask their