Phrase box Accuracy / fluency, info-gap (information gap) activities, TTT (teacher talking time)/ STT (student talking time).
Handout 1 Find different people who will say ‘yes’ to your questions. Write their names in the column. Find someone who … Name
Question E.g.: Do you correct pupils during a speaking activity? - corrects pupils during a speaking activity
- likes to use pair work and group work for speaking activities
- uses speaking activities interesting to pupils
PRACTICAL LESSON 9 TEACHING READING TO A1 LEVEL LEARNERS Time: 80 min
Aims:
Practical aim is developing, training strategies of teaching, and giving skimming, scanning and detail reading skills, learning how to make exercises on reading skills.
Educational aim is presenting information about online resources for teaching reading.
Educative aim: is teachers’ business attire and classroom language.
Outline
Beginning stage (5 min)
Good morning! Good afternoon! Students!
How are you? Have you got any news? What can you say about today’s weather? So, let’s check attendance. (Teacher reads the list of students)
Warm-up activity (5-10 min)
Teacher gives for students to write crossword puzzle.
Main part (45 min)
Theory
Questions for discussion
• Reading as a type of speech activity.
• Requirements of the program
• Types of reading
• Stages of work on the text
• Methods of teaching reading (Tale card, “5-W” — “Insert” method).
Practice
Exploratory task 2.5
Match the following tasks with the “pre-reading”, “while-reading” and “post-reading”
stages”.
Tasks
Stage
Learners are encouraged to form certain expectations about the text
Learners complete a paragraph
Learners complete a questionnaire
Learners solve a mystery
Learners role-play a plot
Learners write a summary
Background information is provided
Questions to activate what the learners already know are asked
In a brainstorming activity the learners anticipate the main points
Key words are supplied for the learners to guess what the text might be about
Learners write a story inspired by a photograph
Learners organized the paragraph that summarises the main information in the text
A picture representation of the text is studied and discussed
Learners match headlines with paragraphs
Learners match text with pictures or diagrams.
Learners order jumbled paragraphs
Learners contrast the two texts
Learners take notes
Learners express their views
Learners exploit a text for grammar or vocabulary
Learners discuss and justify different interpretations of the text
Learners distinguish the main idea from supporting details
A listening text on the same topic is presented (Shiels, J. 1993. Communication in the Modern English Classroom. Council of Europe Press)