Reading activities presentation

 To show the importance of making students want to read a text.Aims of this unit:  To show ways of increasing students’ motivation in intensive reading..  To show ways of helping stud

Reading Activities

 To show the importance of making students want to read a text.

Aims of this unit:

 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

I Pre-reading activities:

1 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

2 Pre-reading activities:

Earthquake in Japan

I Pre-reading activities:

II Reading the 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 Wants to know:

torch

Eyesight ok?

weight Scales Too light/too heavy

Stethoscope

mouth - Throat swollen?

Wrist/puls

e

fingers (+watch) Is blood flowing normally?

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

Aims of this unit Pre –reading

activities Reading the text Lesson preparation Further reading

Making

students want

to read a text.

Increasing students motivation in intensive reading.

Helping students

to understand the main information content in a text.

Using question

on the text

Completing table Electing a personal

response

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