In accordance with Gateway Qualifications' Assessment Guidance.
In this unit, learners will learn how to read and understand straightforward texts and information and use a dictionary to find the meanings of new words.
Be able to read and understand continuous texts.
Identify main events in straightforward chronological, continuous text.
Identify meaning and purpose in straightforward texts with different formats and register.
Extract main points, ideas and opinions from straightforward text.
Be able to read for information from everyday sources.
Obtain specific information from different short everyday information texts.
Extract meaning from everyday instructional texts.
Identify relevant specialist key words in different straightforward information texts.
Be able to use a dictionary.
Use a simple dictionary to find the meaning of unfamiliar words.