2.2 Reading for Understanding

• Nuclear family titles in print: 爸爸, 妈妈, 哥哥, 弟弟, 姐姐, 妹妹, 我家有...口人
• Professions in print: 老师, 医生, 农民, 护士, 司机, 工程师
• Inferring an unfamiliar word from the sentence around it; building a class word wall
• Giving a short text an appropriate title; answering questions on a dialogue

• infer the meaning of keywords and phrases from the text
• summarise the main idea from texts
• exhibit a positive attitude towards reading

“How can understanding be enhanced in reading texts?”

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1. Fill the blanks, then guess the word you do not know
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Complete family and profession blanks, then work out an unfamiliar word from the sentence around it.
2. Read the dialogue, then give it a title
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Answer questions on a family dialogue and choose a title that covers the whole text.