Oral Reading Fluency 29: "The Fame Game" - Build vocabulary and fluency!

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Practice Text 29 "The Fame Game"
Word count: 144
CEFR Level: B2
All texts in this series are original.

Index
0:00 Introduction: What is this reading about?
1:10 Vocabulary Notes
6:43 First reading: Listen and read along silently.
8:03 Second reading: Listen and repeat.
11:15 Third reading: Read together slowly.
12:57 Fourth reading: Read together at a natural pace.
14:20 Post-reading thoughts

The readings in this series use HIGH FREQUENCY VOCABULARY.
All texts are original.
This text uses words from General Service List (GSL) #1-1600
http://jbauman.com/gsl.html
Exception:
applaud (#2101)

Vocabulary Profiler:
86% high frequency (#1-1000)
10% high frequency (#1001-2000)
4% off-list

Gunning Fox Index
6.074 on http://gunning-fog-index.com/
6.3 on https://app.readable.com/text/?demo Gunning
6.93 on https://www.usingenglish.com/

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https://englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/thinking-outside-the-box-exploring-different-ways-to-interact-with-a-text/

You can use the practice text for a dictation, a gapped text, or other form of classroom practice. For your convenience, here is the text you can copy and paste into a Word document.

TEXT: “The Fame Game”
Do you know about the fame game? We all do. A person can gain fame, but they usually pay a price. They lose privacy in exchange for popularity and riches.

Few people make it into the golden club – singers, actors, and various other performers. Once they’re in, they’re sort of like gods. We admire them, follow them, and learn all we can about them. But we’re more than curious. We demand front row seats to watch their so-called private lives. We welcome detailed accounts of their ups and downs.

Do we treat the famous fairly? We applaud their wins, yet we’re always ready to make severe remarks when they fall short of our moral standards. What is it really like to be famous? One probably needs a lot of charm and very thick skin to handle fame. Should we be more sympathetic or not?


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