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: Seaga
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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?
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© 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.
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© 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
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O 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
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© Help students to understand the text before get them to answer the
questions
Timeline Table/Chart
Map
Visuals
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© Check students’ understanding
Ask for evidence
Check on understanding of contents:
Elaborate on the answers Check on understanding of language
contents
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° 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
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© Adapt tasks
Life in the future: robots > travel/
work
Higher education: Talking about Subjects > Summarize the reading
contents
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© 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