Page 25 - Active Skills for Reading Intro Book

Reading A Choose the correct answers.
Comprehension
Check Your Understanding 1 Which kind of school is NOT talked about in the passage?
a cooking b business c modeling
2 Which sentence about Maiko is true?
a She works in Europe right now.
b She can do many jobs after she graduates.
c She plans to study in Shanghai.
3 Why is Diego going to modeling school?
a He wants to learn to walk and talk in front of a camera.
b He wants to be a fashion model.
c He wants to make a lot of money.
4 What is the meaning of the title Doing Something Different?
a At university, there are many different classes.
b Doing something different in school makes you a better student.
c After high school, some people keep studying, but not at a university.

B Read each sentence. Who is it about? Check (ti) Maiko or Diego.
In some cases, both names are possible.

I" Maiko Diego'
1 This person is studying in the United States now.
2 This person might study in the United States in the future.

3 This person can work in television after graduating.
,4 This person has one more year to study. �

Critical Thinking C 1 What can Maiko and Diego do when they finish school? Write the ideas

from the passage. Then add one more idea for each person.
2 Whose school is more interesting to you: Maiko's or Diego's? Why?

Vocabulary A Match each word with its definition. The words in blue are from the
Comprehension passage.
Definitions 1 continue _f2_ a somewhere in the future
2 program b going to very soon
3 graduate c to keep doing something
4 import d the work you do for money
5 job e a course of study in a school
6 just about to f an advertisement on the radio or on lV
7 commercial g to finish school or university
8 at some point __ h to bring something into a country from
another country

24 UNIT 2 Chapter 1