FACILITATING READING TASKS Nguoi huong dan :Nguyen Thi Lien BEFORE-YOU-READ Activate students’ previous knowledge Unit 1 – Home Life: Talk about students’ own home life Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity: Wedding Puzzle Unit 13 – Seagames: Seagames Fact Quiz Build students’ knowledge of the topic Unit 2 - Cultural Diversity: What is cultural diversity? Unit 3 – Ways of Socializing: What is socializing? What is verbal communication? What is non-verbal behavior? Unit 14 – International Organizations: What are these organizations? BEFORE-YOU-READ Get students familiar with some key vocabulary Unit 3 – Ways of socializing: Act out the verbs Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary) before reading Motivate students to read Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate the words (key vocab.) Make them curious by asking questions they can find the answers in the reading. BEFORE-YOU-READ Help students understand the tasks Get students read the questions first Help students with difficult expressions in the questions Check to make sure students understand the questions WHILE-YOU-READ Reduce the load Break the passage into smaller parts Unit 7 - Economic Reforms: Before Doi Moi – Government’s actions – After Doi Moi Vocabulary-in-context tasks: help students locate the words; provide examples; provide other contexts;etc. Change the task: Unit 2 – Task 1 Matching; MCQ… WHILE-YOU-READ Help students to understand the text before get them to answer the questions Timeline Table/Chart Map Visuals WHILE-YOU-READ Check students’ understanding Ask for evidence Check on understanding of contents: Elaborate on the answers Check on understanding of language contents WHILE-YOU-READ Develop skills Skimming: Which sentence = most important Vocab-in-context: How you arrive at the meaning is more important than the meaning itself Scanning: Find the information read around Etc. AFTER-YOU-READ Adapt tasks Life in the future: robots travel/ work Higher education: Talking about subjects Summarize the reading contents FINAL NOTES Careful pre-teaching better understanding Understand the text first, answer questions later Being able to relate to the reading contents students more interested Answering the questions correctly # comprehending . the verbs Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary) before reading Motivate students to read Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate the words. Summarize the reading contents FINAL NOTES Careful pre-teaching better understanding Understand the text first, answer questions later Being able to relate