Questions to disscuss © 1.what are the difficulties you have when teaching reading?. What are difficulties you may have when teaching reading text in English 12?. BEFORE-YOU-READ ©
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© 1.what are the difficulties you have
when teaching reading? What are your
sollutions to the problems?
O 2 What are difficulties you may have
when teaching reading text in English
12? What sollutions to these?
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© Group 1: Thai Binh city: unit 1, 2
© Group 2: Vu Thu: Unit 3, 4
© Group 3: Kien Xuong: unit 5,6
© Group 4: Dong Hung: Dnit 7,8
© Group 5: Hung Ha: Unit 9, 10
© Group 6: Quynh Phu: unit 11,12
© Group 7: Tien Hai: Unit 13, 14
© Group 8: Thai Thuy: Unit 15, 16
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© -knowledge of the topics
O - of the background
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© 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
O 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
O 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 Mol
— Government's actions —- After Doi Mol
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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O 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
O Understand the text first, answer questions later
© Being able to relate to the reading contents >
students more interested
O Answering the questions correctly #
comprehending