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Title: Reading Comprehension: ALL: Find The Right Information in The Passage

This document provides learning objectives and guidance for answering reading comprehension questions about a passage: The objectives are to demonstrate understanding of explicit and implicit meanings from a text and to select and use information for specific purposes. The guidance advises students to find the right information, understand what each question is asking, and determine what is relevant to include in concise, precise answers. Short answers should focus on the most important details.

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Title: Reading Comprehension: ALL: Find The Right Information in The Passage

This document provides learning objectives and guidance for answering reading comprehension questions about a passage: The objectives are to demonstrate understanding of explicit and implicit meanings from a text and to select and use information for specific purposes. The guidance advises students to find the right information, understand what each question is asking, and determine what is relevant to include in concise, precise answers. Short answers should focus on the most important details.

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Title: Reading Comprehension

Learning Objectives:

❑ To demonstrate understanding of explicit meaning.


❑ To demonstrate understanding of implicit meanings and attitudes.
❑ To select and use information for specific purposes.

ALL: Find the right information in the passage


MOST: Understand what information the question is asking you to
specifically look for and providing synonyms.
SOME: Understand what is relevant to include in your answer. Short
answers that are concise, precise, clear and focused
Read Text A, Can a 'happy to chat' bench really tackle the
epidemic of loneliness among the elderly? in the insert and then
answer Questions 1(a)–(e)
Question 1
• For question 1a – Look at the
(a) Name two people the writer chatted to on the bench. [1] command word (Give, Identify,
Name). CIE want you to ‘lift’
(b) Using your own words, explain what the text means by: the answer from the text;
(i) ‘in a bid to tackle loneliness’ (line 5): [2] either a word or short phrase.
(ii) ‘a con artist.’ (line 9): [2] Lift the answer from the text.
(c) Re-read paragraph 3, (‘The idea is championed by... interaction.’) • For 1b – Command word has
Give two benefits of the ‘happy to chat’ bench [2] changed – Explain
(d) Re-read paragraphs 5 and 6, (‘I got chatting... just natural.’). Use your own words. Two marks
(i) Identify two common conversation starters mentioned by Anne. are available for each – you have
[2] to give the full answers. Be
(ii) Explain why Anne Davies uses the bench. methodical and look at each word
[3] in turn. Explain each word in
(e) Re-read paragraphs 8-10, (‘The pair have used… after all.’). context.
Using your own words, explain why the writer went back to London in high • 1c – slight inference needed
spirits. here; reading between the
[3] lines. The command word is
give so you don’t need to
worry about writing it in your
own words.
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d Te
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emi a
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