FIRST EXPERIENCE 2021-10

RECEPTIVE SKILL: READING

It can be developed individual or in pairs

Activities to be done

DEVELOPING READING SKILLS

TASK 1

Describe of define the following words related to reading skills

- Mnemonic device - Predicting

- Meaning - Scanning

- Context - Identyfing

- Main idea - Establishing

- Key word - Guessing

- Vocabulary - Skimming

- Visual Aids

TASK 2

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/unit-4-reading-skills

Watch the video # 1. Look at the six chunks of it and describe the way practice for reading skills are
evident:

- Predicting the content of a text (film 1)

- Scanning a text for specific details (film 2)

- Identyfing the text type and the purpose for reading (film3)

- Establishing the context of a reading text (film 4)

- Guessing the meaning of words from the context (film 5)

- Skimming a text for the main ideas (film 6)

TASKS FOR TEACHER EDUCATION

BETWEEN THE LINES

TASK 3

Task # 3: Browsing: Read the quotes from the different teachers (P. 65-66)

- Write the new ideas about teaching reading

- Identify the pre-reading activities from the quotes and cite them

- During the reading, some teachers give students activities to do. Which ones are those?

- Identify the post reading activities from the quotes and cite them.

TASK 4

Task # 4: Reader’s choice

- Read the descriptions of the 12 reading techniques (P. 67)

- As you read, look at the reading activities (A-K) (P. 68, 69,70)

- Match the reading techniques with the activity-activities

READING TECHNIQUE ACTIVITY

1. Skimming
2. Scanning
3. Contextual guessing
4. Cloze exercise
5. Outlining
6. Paraphrasing A, E
7. Scrambled stories
8. Information transfer
9. Making inferences
10. Intensive reading
11. Extensive reading A
12. Passage completion