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Is reading on screens changing our brains?
A B2 lesson on reading habits, built on a BBC Ideas video in which writers and researchers talk about what reading does for us and what happens when we read on screens. Students learn phrases for describing how we read, predict the benefits of reading, then check what the researchers found about paper and screens.
Listening focus
75 min
B2 First Unit 2: Travel and Journeys
Students build travel vocabulary and use narrative tenses, including the past perfect, through B2 First open cloze, transformation, reading and article tasks.
Grammar focusExam preparation
85 min
Reading and Use of English: The Guide
Students find out what each of the seven parts of the B2 First Reading and Use of English paper tests and try a short sample of every part, with the answers explained.
Skills focusExam preparation
70 min
Reading Part 5 1: Read Between the Lines
Students learn to find evidence in a text for the writer's attitude, purpose and meaning, so they can answer exam-style Part 5 questions and rule out every wrong option.
Skills focusExam preparation
80 min
Reading Part 5 2: Why Did They Say That?
Students learn to answer Part 5 questions about the writer's purpose and feelings, word meaning and reference, and practise them in two exam-style texts.
Skills focusExam preparation
80 min
Reading Part 6 1: Follow the Clues
Students learn to follow reference words, linkers and time clues so they can put removed sentences back into exam-style Part 6 texts.
Skills focusExam preparation
80 min
Reading Part 6 2: Mind the Gaps
Students follow reference phrases, words that sum up and time across paragraphs to put removed sentences back into exam-style Part 6 texts, and learn to rule out the extra sentence.
Skills focusExam preparation
85 min
Reading Part 6 3: What Comes Next?
Students learn what job each sentence does in a paragraph (adding a point, giving an example, showing what really happened) and follow signposts that look back and forward to complete exam-style Reading Part 6 texts.
Skills focusExam preparation
85 min
Reading Part 7 1: Find It Fast
Students learn to scan for paraphrases and avoid near-miss distractors so they can match questions to the right section in exam-style Part 7 tasks.
Skills focusExam preparation
80 min
Reading Part 7 2: Plans, Hopes and What Really Happened
Students learn to tell a plan from what really happened, and the writer's view from other people's, so they can avoid near-miss answers in exam-style Part 7 tasks.
Skills focusExam preparation
80 min
Say It Differently: Paraphrasing and summarising
Students practise paraphrasing without changing meaning and summarising the main points of a text, then write a short summary for a newsletter.
Skills focus
65 min