Blog tasks:

Before you start,  lets keep in mind that skill in selecting and employing a variety of reading strategies- including skimming, scanning, detailed reading/ close reading and predicting/ guessing - is necessary for reading influence.

1. In groups of two, read the article Michael Jackson legal battle begins in LA. Give a summary of the main issues that this newspaper article is about.

Write in your blog which reading strategy or strategies you used.

2.  In groups pf two, read the review of the film Gulliver’s Travels. Sum up in your own words how the reviewer evaluates the film.

Write in  in your blog which reading strategy  or stategies you used.

3. In groups of two, read the article, Cloud hampers first partial solar ecplise of 2011.

Answer these questions to the article:

1) The skywatchers who hoped to catch a glimpse of the solar ecplise in Britain on the morning of January the 4th  were disappointed. Why?

2)  In which city in the world was the ecplise first seen?

3) When did the ecplise end for viewers in the UK?

Write in your blog which reading strategy or strategies you used.