Reading activity H
You are skimming through an article in which most of the words are unknown to you. Here are the ones you can understand, however:
professor
institute of biochemistry
hard-working man
results of experiments
published
confession
invention
different results
fraud
Can you guess, from these few words, if the article is about
□ a well-known professor who has just published his confessions
a scientist who has admitted inventing the results of his experiments
□ a scientist who has killed himself because he couldn't get the same results as everybody
else
a scientist who regrets the publication of the results of his experiments Taken from 'Developing reading skills
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Reading activity J
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Who or what did he see? What happened next
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Read the next passage and decide which is
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Read and guess what the missing words are.
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the most extraordinary piece of information
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And there came an old (1) with two
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Cans of (2) He stood before the
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The (4) said, 'Please I beg of you!'.
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Carole
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Philip
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Bohanon
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Reading activity К
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Reading activity L
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Read passage В and put these notes in
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One of the strongest features of the
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the right order.
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article is the writer's love for and pride
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a) technician came
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.in his son. For example:
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b) found other photos
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When my son called, I sat down at the
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c) noticed a bulge on photo
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kitchen
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d) further studies
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table and leaned forward and hung on
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e) looked carefully at photo
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f) measuring Pluto's orbit
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g) stayed to help
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Can you find other examples?
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h) looked through archives
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i) machine stopped working
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j) using Star Scan
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k) became interested
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1) thought it was an error
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Which reading strategies are effective?
Reading strategies
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Effective or Ineffective
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Reasons
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a use my finger to help my eyes follow lines of text
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b read each word very carefully in order to understand the entire text
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с keep my eyes moving past the unfamiliar words and thus try to understand the main ideas
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d say words quietly to myself
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e write the meaning of new words in LI in margin of page
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f look up unfamiliar words in a bilingual dictionary
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g start reading without panicking or thinking Help! I'm not going to understand
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h look for linking words that help explain relationship between sentences (e.g. in contrast, for example)
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1 ask my teacher for help whenever I meet an unfamiliar word
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к translate a difficult section of text into Ll
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/ think of other words I already know that are similar to the unknown word(s) 1 come across
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m find the sentence that contains the main idea
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n read a lot of different things in order to expand my vocabulary and improve my general comprehension
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о study or write vocabulary lists and translations of words into Ll
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p try to understand the relationship between the main ideas and supporting details
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q look at titles, subtitles, pictures and other visuals before reading
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Can help orient the reader
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r read a text very quickly the first time to get the gist (main idea)
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s underline or highlight words 1 don't understand
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f create some questions for myself before I read which I think or hope the text will answer
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и limit myself to looking up in the dictionary only a few unknown words
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PRACTICAL LESSON # 13 Writing & how to teach writing.
Questions for discussion:
• What writing is
• What kind of process writing is.
• Why is it important to teach writing in a foreign language.
• What basic principles of writing are.
• What approaches and techniques bring to better results in teaching writing skills.
• How to design tasks for writing.
• How to assess written works.
Everybody will agree that writing is a part of our everyday routine, and it is also a part of our professional life.
Activity 1
But what is writing? What does your experience tell you about writing? Work in groups of four, think it over and write your definition of writing.
(Writing is one of the means of communication having some purpose, organization and addressed to somebody.)
The main features of writing are:
In the last few decades writing is being paid more and more attention to which leads closer inspection of the methods of teaching this skill. Several things should be taken into consideration when we think about teaching writing.
1). Firstly, teaching writing involves both a teacher and a student in a partnership, where the participants are equal. Treating any peace of writing only for correcting language errors and mistakes on the teacher's side misses the aim of this creative process on the student's side.
2). Secondly, it is a myth that all it takes to write is to sit down in front a blank page to begin at the beginning and write through to the end, without planning, drafting, revising, editing or discussing. The following diagram shows the complex process of writing.
Activity 2
Task: In groups of four discuss and come to a conclusion why most of the arrows on the diagram are the two-ways ones.
II Process of Writing
Examine the diagram "A Model of Writing"
(White. R. and Anult. V., Process tt iling; Longman. 1992, p.4)
Give a brief outline of the processes that go on at each of the stages.
3).Thirdly, for the reader to understand the message of the text, the writer should deal with a number of issues shown in the following scheme.
1. Generating ideas – brainstorming, producing ideas, selecting ideas, reading from the book.
2. Reviewing - analyzing ideas, searching for ways to make them better.
3. Focusing – choosing the idea, concentrating on the idea.
4. Structuring – organizing the text, choosing the form paragraphing.
5. Drafting – writing process, re-writing the draft for many times.
6. Evaluating – rereading the text and trying to improve it.
4). Finally, writing is a task which is often imposed on us, that's why we should develop positive attitude to writing trying to overcome some psychological, linguistic and cognitive problems.
In conclusion it should be mentioned that though the situation is complex and there is no one set of answers, still writing is a skill worth developing. Our problem, as teachers, how to do this in such a way that the students see the purpose of learning this skill.
Activity 3
Task: Mark the following statements true (T) or false (F):
1. We usually write a text once for ever without any change.
2. The teacher and the students are both participants in the process of writing who have complementary roles and similar status.
3. The teacher should concentrate on the accuracy of using the language when checking students’ written works.
4. The writer should take into consideration all aspects of language and the process of writing to create a clear, fluent, effective and meaningful text.
5. Writing is a long process of going back and forward, of revising and reviewing, of evaluating and restructuring.
Activity 4
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