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Reading

Any reading in content lessons through the medium of English as a foreign language needs
to develop the same skills (if not more) than those which are taught in regular ELT courses.

What are key reading skills which need to be included?

Skimming
Scanning Information transfer
Contextual Guessing The core content is in the diagrammatical
Cloze Exercise structure of the text.
Outlining Total Cloze
Paraphrasing Hidden Text (with electronic dictionary)
Scrambled stories Sorting
Information transfer Two mixed up texts to rearrange correctly
Making inferences Read and label
Intensive reading Use maps or other visuals alongside texts for
Extensive reading annotation
Passage completion Word order
Split sentences up into chunks for reordering
Objectives these skills and task types aim to correctly.
cover include: cohesion (sense between Read and take notes
words within sentences) and coherence Create own notes on text, remove core,
(sense between sentences within texts). leave headings, hand out as frame
Running Dictation
Pair reading / one scribes, one dictates.

Types of listening activity

CLIL listening tasks embody the idea of scaffolding in the images and structures they employ.

Listen and label a diagram/picture/map/graph/chart

Listen and fill in a table

Listen and make notes on specific information (dates, figures, times, teacher’s ‘lecture’ on a
topic)

Listen and rearrange information/reorder information

Listen and identify location/speakers/places

Listen and lable the stages of a process/instructions/sequences of a text

Listen and fill in the gaps in a text