Teacher PortalReading helps learners understand and use workplace information. Start with texts they encounter at work.
Reading helps learners understand and use workplace information. Start with texts they encounter at work.
Identify the main message, find details and check whether information is relevant and current.
Read a timetable, a safety instruction or a cleaning product label.
Read short texts together. Highlight key words, discuss symbols and invite learners to explain the meaning in their own words.
Working life is full of text: messages, schedules, routines, forms and screens. Reading makes it possible to act independently and safely.
Use real workplace text types, read together and practise strategies such as skimming, scanning and comparing.
Teaching activities
A practical reading and writing exercise in which learners find information, compare details and formulate a question when something is unclear.
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Participants practise distinguishing observations from assumptions and write a short, accurate message to the shift supervisor.
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Participants read prices, calculate discounts, check a receipt and explain how they found the answers.
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An oral communication activity in which participants listen to a message, ask clarifying questions and relay the content to a partner.
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Participants interpret a workplace message, complete a simulated digital form, identify conflicting information and review their entries.
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Participants compare three fictional messages, distinguish claims from documentation and write a neutral, responsible message.