Illiteracy article There are no clues for this activity. Below are 8 questions about the text. For each one, select the best answer, a), b) or c). When you have finished, click "Check answers" to check your answers. What are the literacy statistics in industrialised western countries? 2 20% of the population can't read or write 20 % of the population can't read or write very well. 20% of the population can read but can't write. Why didn't the writer's mother write a list when she went to the supermarket? 2 She couldn't read and write. She could remember what she needed to buy. She didn't like writing. How did the writer help her father with important letters? 3 She wrote them for him. She typed them for him. She corrected them for him. What does 'functionally literate' mean? 1 You can read and write well enough to do the things that you need to do. You would like to be able to read and write better. You can read as well as everyone else in your society. What did the word 'literate' mean many years ago? 3 Being able to read a religious book. Being able to remember stories. Being articulate. How was literacy defined in the United States a hundred years ago? 1 Being able to sign your name. Being able to read but not write. Being able to dictate a letter to someone else. What did the study in the UK show? 2 That intelligent people are usually good at writing and spelling. That bad writing and spelling give a negative impression of your personality. That most jobs today involve reading and writing. Why does the writer think that literacy campaigns are 'a good thing'? 1 They can fight illness and poverty. Illiterate people are unhappy. We learn everything from reading. http://c1364652.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/assets_green.swf