ELC150 Integrated
Language Skills: Reading
Extensive Reading Project (ERP)
What is ERP?
• Expose details and information to students
• Helps students to obtain deeper knowledge of the
language items
• Associate the learned knowledge with related
surrounding
Objectives
• to foster love for reading
• to build reading fluency and vocabulary
• to promote confidence, motivation, enjoyment
• to make students more effective language users
• to lower any anxieties about language learning
Steps for ERP
• 8 stories are recommended to the students
• The stories will be assigned according to
respective weeks by the lecturer
• Class discussion on related issues is encouraged
• Group discussion on selected stories
• Students are to reflect/answer/respond to the
tasks given
Exercise 1
• Read the short story “Kelly”.
• Answer / discuss the following questions.
Questions
Question 1
What did you think of Kelly before the writer
revealed who Kelly was at the end of the story?
Question 1
What did you think of Kelly before the writer revealed who Kelly
was at the end of the story?
The suggested answer:
I imagined Kelly is a handsome gentleman as the descriptions of him
was clearly describing a man. The way Sarah pictured him made me
anxious to know whether they would meet and fall in love. After all,
Sarah was memorizing her previous experience with Terence and
Pancho. This part of the story made I felt sorry for Sarah for her bad
lucks with men. Therefore, I was crossing my fingers that Sarah and
Kelly would end up together. After reading the whole story, I almost
laughed (and disappointed of course) when Kelly is not as what I have
expected. Kelly is a horse. Sigh…I thought this is going to be a love
story but still it is a love story, between a human being with another
creature
Questions
Question 2
If you can change the ending of the story, how
would you like it to end?