Read in Daily Life and Read an Academic Passage
Purpose questions, details, vocabulary and inference.
15 minutes · A free lesson from Reading
Read in Daily Life: short, practical texts — emails, notices, menus, schedules, posts — with questions about purpose, details and what can be inferred.
Read an Academic Passage: a short academic text with questions about the main idea, details, vocabulary in context, the author's purpose ("Why does the author mention…?") and inference.
Lesson quiz
Check what you have learned. Choose an answer to see whether it is right, and why.
Quick check: “Why does the author mention X?” What is X usually?
- The main idea of the passage
- A mistake in the passage
- An example of the idea just before it
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C: An example of the idea just before it — Read the sentence before the mention to see what it illustrates.
Quick check: How do you answer a vocabulary-in-context question?
- Choose the longest word
- Put each option in place of the word and see which keeps the meaning
- Choose the word you know best
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B: Put each option in place of the word and see which keeps the meaning — The context decides the meaning, not the dictionary's first entry.
Quick check: Where do you look for the purpose of an email?
- The subject line, the first sentence and any request
- The signature
- The last word
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A: The subject line, the first sentence and any request — Purpose questions are answered near the start.
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