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Reading in a foreign language is hard work, especially for younger children. The teacher will have to decide which skills to focus on and devise activities which actively support learners’ understanding and guide attention to the chosen skill.

The following guide-lines may be useful when planning how to develop students’ reading ability at an early age.     read more >>

Read the passage and answer the questions which follow:

This gro I folled in the bion. I sok a trisy vene drog. The grask was trisy lirkening. I did not dring it. A jovind Kar and a jovind Kari were pristing deree me. They were gribbling alty. I sorb trisy forban. I possi not vree the skadis. I vridi trun. I grokki ta the Kar and the Kari forbenly. They did not gof nol drinkleton. Wi the hin I possi not wilk it. I vridi trun ves. “I possi not vree a palav!” I lind forbanly.     read more >>

This is an intensive reading activity at sentence level. You can dictate the sentences one by one, or give out the list and get students in pairs of groups to answer the questions. There is no “correct” answer. Students have to use their imagination.
“You are an external expression and not at all what you appear to be.”
- Epictetus 1st cent BC.     read more >>

Newspapers often use short, idiomatic and dramatic words. There may be abbreviations, omissions and puns. Sometimes this can lead to ambiguity.
Students can try to find the two possible meanings of these headlines and write a likely first sentence for the article following each headline.     read more >>