Teacher Training Session
Active Reading Skills
Suganthi TKrishnan
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Quick Quiz:
1. Name the skills in language learning.
Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking
2. Which of these are productive skills?
Writing and speaking
3. What are the other skills called?
Reading and listening are called Receptive skills.
Active Reading Skills
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Active Reading
Session Aims:
By the end of the session you will have:
• Participated in a model Reading Skills lesson
• A clear idea of the stages in a Reading Skills lesson
• A set of class activities to make Reading an ‘active’ skill
• Identified the different approaches to Teaching Reading
• Assessed how useful a demo lesson is in Teacher Training
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Challenges in Teaching Reading
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Take a minute to arrange these stages of life in order:
1.
3.
meet
someone
leave
school
4.
6.
8.
retire
7.
5.
start work 2.
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You have 30 seconds to look at this………..
© Reading Extra, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Pg 16,17
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Now, answer the following questions:
Where is the text from?
From a newspaper
What is it about?
The longest married couple in the UK
Who is in the photos?
Fred and Olive Hodges, the longest married
couple in the UK
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Read this paragraph carefully. You have three minutes.
© Reading Extra, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Pg 16,17
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Are these sentences true or false?
1. Fred and Olive first met in winter.
2. They were from Northampton.
3. They got married in 1925.
4. John and Brenda didn’t have children.
5. Fred and Olive bought a house in Northampton.
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Past tense verbs from the article:
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2
3
4
saved
met
came
was
skated
left
gave
had
started
You make the past form of verb
by adding ‘-ed’
Regular verbs – saved,
started
You cannot add ‘-ed’ to make the
past form
Irregular verbs – met, gave
What do we call the verbs in
column 4 above?
Auxiliary Verbs
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In groups…..
Write a summary
Fred and Olive first …. 1915. They met again in ……war. They fell…
engaged. In 1925 they bought …. Married. Fred and Olive ….
Children. Fred … 1960s.
The couple …. 102. They now have …. Great-grandchildren. They
live … home. They have been …. In April. They are … longest
married couple.
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In groups….
Discuss
Who are the longest married couple you know?
What do you think is the secret of a successful marriage?
In the future, do you think marriage will be regarded as being as
important an institution as it is now?
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Re-cap :
How did we begin this session?
What did we do next?
Can you list the sequence the activities we did in this session?
Example: Stages of life, ordering them, …., Read quickly, guess what
might be in the passage…..
Which activities were pre- reading, while-reading and post-reading?
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Pre-teach difficult vocabulary
Pre-Reading
Preview grammar to be used in
passage
Activate Schemata- See what
learners already know about the
topic
Skim for gist, check prediction
While Reading
Read intensively to help notice
grammar (pronouns)
Read for detail
Read for specific information
Write a summary.
Post-Reading
Speak about related topic
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Top down or Bottom up?
In this session we used learners existing
knowledge about the context to facilitate
reading –
Top down reading.
Sometimes, we go from
knowing individual words to
the larger picture –
Bottom Up reading
Top down or bottom up reading?
•Learner type
•Objective of the lesson
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Demo lessons in
Teacher Training
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Look out for the other British Council
Teacher Training Workshops at TEC 14
Suganthi.tkrishnan@britishcouncil.org
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