English Language Class

Grace N. C. Sabandar
ghechan83@gmail.com
M AT H E M AT I C S
What previewing is

How to preview a text and a book

Why previewing is important

Practice previewing a book and a text

Definition :
→ Looking before you read.
→ Look through the text for three minutes or less

Objective:
It quickly gives readers a sense of
the content. (predicting)
 Who wrote it
and who is it
for?
What is it?
What is it
about?

Is it difficult
THINK
or easy to
read? Is it
interesting or
What will useful?
come next?
Practice 1

Re: your message

Heard your message on my machine. Yes, Let’s get together.
How about lunch?

1. What is it?

2. Who is it for?

3. What will come next?

Practice 2
Ready to go, ready to show
1993 Corvette Chevrolet
Miles: 53,777 Condition: Like new Start price: $14,400

1. What is it?

2. Who is it for?

3. What will come next?

Previewing a Text

Robotic Surgery Offers Indonesia

Non-Invasive Alternatives
Novia D. Rulistia, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Body and Soul |
Wed, July 03 2013
What is the content of this magazine?
❖Finding information
→ to decide whether the material has what you need for your purpose

❖Understanding information
→ to make material more familiar when you read it so that you will
understand more easily the text.

❖Evaluating information
→ to see whether the writers have a bias and whether they know what
they are doing.
❖What does the title say? What does it mean?

❖Is there a paper jacket on the book or a cover on the

magazine? Does it do such things as tell about the
contents, give reviewers’ comments, give selections
from the materials?

❖Who are the writers?

❖What is the publication date?

❖What company published the material?

❖Is there a preface, a foreword, or an

introduction?
Will you read this book?
HGSE Professor Howard Gardner. He is a professor of Cognition
and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of
Education at Harvard University,

To prepare students for the future, educators need to cultivate

both academic skills and character.

In a recent Burton and English lecture at HGSE, Gardner

describes what it means for citizens and workers to exhibit these
types of minds.

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press (January 6, 2009)

Will you read this book?

IT and Education for the Poorest of the Poor:

Constraints, Possibilities, and Principles
Daniel A. Wagner

Daniel A. Wagner is Professor and Director of the International Literacy Institute

(ILI) at the University of Pennsylvania – UNESCO, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3111.
The ILI website is http://www.literacy.org.
Dr. Wagner can be reached at wagner@literacy.upenn.edu.
"WHEN YOU FLICK A SWITCH,
WHAT TURNS ON THE
POWER?”
Group work
what is the text about?
(in one sentence)

http://bit.ly/unpar_a; http://bit.ly/unpar_b;
http://bit.ly/unpar_c