1. You want to find out what ‘facilitate’ means and look it up in your dictionary.

2. You are looking on the Internet for suitable material to support your debate topic.

3. You and a friend want to go and see the latest blockbuster movie and you need to check at which cinemas it is showing and at what times.

4. You are going to visit a friend who lives in Lamma so you check the ferry timetable.

5. Your lecturer has given you three articles to read on ‘China and its people’. You have to choose one to summarize.

6. You are looking at a book in the library and are deciding whether to take it out.

7.You are looking through the ICOSA database to find an activity that will help you increase your reading speed.

8. You are doing preliminary research for your final year project.