Page 103 - Active Skills for Reading Intro Book

UNIT 8 CHAPTER 2 The Tiffin Men

Before You Read A Think about answers to these questions.
What's for lunch?
1 Do you bring your lunch to school or work, or do you eat at a restaurant?
2 Look at the passage on the next page and answer the questions.
a What do you know about India? Can you name any Indian cities?
b Look at the photo and the word in the search box. What do you think
a dabbawallah is?
B Discuss your answers with a partner.

Reading Skill A Read the questions and answers below.
Scanning
1 What do the dabbawallahs do?
a They work in restaurants. b They deliver lunches.
You scan to find 2 What is another name for the dabbawallahs?
information fast. When
you scan, you only look a the Mumbai Men b the Tiffin Men
for the information 3 How many dabbawallahs are there?
you need (words or a 5,000 b 200,000
numbers). You don't 4 Which sentence about the dabbawallahs is true?
read every word. a They are poor. b They like to read.
5 What do some dabbawallahs also do?
a They teach classes. b They work in companies.

B Now scan the passage on the next page to find answers to the
questions in A.

C Look at the question at the start of the passage. Discuss with a partner.
Use your answers in A.

D Now read the whole passage. Then answer the questions on page 104.

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