Level 2 Reading teachers are due to give a minimum of five quizzes this semester. As well as the in-house quizzes that you can use with your classes, there are also a set of publisher tests. They are a little easier than the in-house ones, as vocabulary is not recycled from previous units.
unit-quizzes-for-totally-true-3.pdf
unit-quiz-answers-for-totally-true-3.pdf

Here is a Word document containing the text of the main readings in chapters 10 ~ 18. It may help in the generation of other supplementary materials.

Totally True 1. Autumn. Text

Here is a zip file archive of the crossword puzzles for ch 10 ~ 18. The puzzles are in PDF format.

Totally True 1. Autumn. Crossword puzzles

On the elpweb Resources site (foundation/level 1/reading) you can find:

Crossword puzzles
For example…

Cloze quizzes
For example…

‘Learn more‘ More information about the people in the reading passages.
For example…

Review Lesson (lessons 1~4) – Reading 1

The aim of this lesson is to review most of the key vocabulary presented in lessons one to four. It is also meant to be a way of getting students mentally and physically active (pair work, followed by group work as teams), and a ‘fun’ way of reviewing language.

There are three activities and I have suggested approximate times that each should take based on experience using similar activities in previous classes.

• Review 1 – Jigsaw reading – Pair work (35 minutes)
• Review 2 – Crossword – Group work (combine pairs from Review 1) (15 minutes)
• Review 3 – Quiz (Snatch) – Group work (35 minutes)

Review Lesson – Reading 1 (1~4), 3 activities

See the Level 3 Teacher’s Notes for the rationale behind True or False Dictation. For convenience, I will add new files to this post as I make them. Though I have labeled them as Quiz and Practice, any could be used as a graded quiz or as a form focused listening activity.

Dictation Practice 1 – This one is based on the personality vocabulary and grammar structures from pages 2 and 3 of Passages. I used it to introduce the concept. Took about 15 minutes to grade 20 responses.

Dictation Practice 2 – Families – taken from the grammar focus on page 7 of Passages.

Dicatation Practice 3 – Education 1, from Grammar Focus on page 11

Dictation Practice 4 – Education II, from page 15 of passages.

Dictation Practice 5 – Cities I, from page 19 of Passages

Dictation Quiz 1 – This first Dictation Quiz draws material from the first two Dication Practices.

Dicatation Quiz 2 The second quiz drawas from the Education theme, Dication Practice 3 and 4

This is a re-written and simplified version of the Structure of an Essay reading passage used for the 2004 and 2005 EAP course. I’ve simplified the language, but also made it a bit more prescriptive, focusing exclusively on how to write in the five-paragraph essay format. I’ve included a separate worksheet to supplement the reading, and a quiz to be given a week later. I plan to make a Moodle-based practice quiz to supplement it.

The Structure of an Essay – Reading

Structure of Essay Activity Worksheet (JS).doc

Structure of an Essay – Quiz

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