Reading activities presentation

Reading Activities Aims of this unit:  To show the importance of making students want to read a text  To show ways of increasing students’ motivation in intensive reading  To show ways of helping students to understand the main information contained in a text I Pre-reading activities II Reading the text III Lesson preparation IV Further reading I Pre-reading activities: Wanting to read:  To establish the importance of pre-reading activities in class, begin by talking about reading in general  To illustrate these points, give examples of different texts Pre-reading activities: Earthquake in Japan I Pre-reading activities: II Reading the text Using question on a text: - To check comprehension - To help the students read the text Teacher A : My students sat in groups to answer the questions Then we went through answers together Teacher B : I asked my students to write the answers to the questions Then we went through the answers together Teacher C : I asked the questions around the class, and got different students to answer 2.Completing table: Good question should help the students to read by leading them towards the mains ideas of the text Give a demonstration to show how “a table completion” task can be used as part of a reading activity After your demonstration, discuss the activity Examines Uses Any infections? Eyes torch weight Scales chest ear mouth Wrist/puls Stethoscope torch fingers (+watch) e feet Wants to know: - Eyesight ok? Too light/too heavy Are heart and lungs working? Too much wax? Throat swollen? Is blood flowing normally? Athletes foot? Verucca? 3.Eliciting a personal response: Divide the teacher s into groups Ask them to read the text in the Teacher’s Workbook and to work through the two sets of question Quickly go through the answer Then discuss how the question in group A are different from those group B I Pre-reading activities II Reading the text III Lesson preparation - Teachers working together in pair or groups, or let teachers prepare in their own time after the session I Pre-reading activities II Reading activities III.Lesson preparation IV Further reading Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language(Nuttall -1982) Reading in the Language Classroom (Williams-1984) Developing Reading Skill (Grealler -1981) READING ACTIVITIES Pre –reading Aims of this unit Making students want to read a text Reading the text activities Increasing students motivation in intensive reading Helping students Using question to understand the on the text main information content in a text Lesson preparation Completing table Further reading Electing a personal response THANK YOU FOR YOUR LISTENING ... activities II Reading activities III.Lesson preparation IV Further reading Teaching Reading Skills in a Foreign Language(Nuttall -1982) Reading in the Language Classroom (Williams-1984) Developing Reading. .. (Grealler -1981) READING ACTIVITIES Pre reading Aims of this unit Making students want to read a text Reading the text activities Increasing students motivation in intensive reading Helping students... illustrate these points, give examples of different texts Pre -reading activities: Earthquake in Japan I Pre -reading activities: II Reading the text Using question on a text: - To check comprehension