FACILITATING READING TASKS

FACILITATING
READING TASKS
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Questions to disscuss
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1.what are the difficulties you have
when teaching reading? What are your
sollutions to the problems?
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2. What are difficulties you may have
when teaching reading text in English
12? What sollutions to these?

Groups
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Group 1: Thai Binh city: unit 1, 2
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Group 2: Vu Thu: Unit 3, 4
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Group 3: Kien Xuong: unit 5,6
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Group 4: Dong Hung: Unit 7,8
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Group 5: Hung Ha: Unit 9, 10
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Group 6: Quynh Phu: unit 11,12
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Group 7: Tien Hai: Unit 13, 14
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Group 8: Thai Thuy: Unit 15, 16

Answers(1)
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lack of
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-knowledge of the topics
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- of the background
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- of the language

BEFORE-YOU-READ
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Activate students’ previous knowledge
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Unit 1 – Home Life: Talk about students’ own home life
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Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity: Wedding Puzzle
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Unit 13 – Seagames: Seagames Fact Quiz
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Build students’ knowledge of the topic
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Unit 2 - Cultural Diversity: What is cultural diversity?
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Unit 3 – Ways of Socializing: What is socializing? What is verbal
communication? What is non-verbal behavior?
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Unit 14 – International Organizations: What are these

organizations?

BEFORE-YOU-READ
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Get students familiar with some key vocabulary
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Unit 3 – Ways of socializing: Act out the verbs
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Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary)
before reading
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Motivate students to read
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Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate
the words (key vocab.)
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Make them curious by asking questions  they
can find the answers in the reading.

BEFORE-YOU-READ
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Help students understand the tasks
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Get students read the questions first
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Help students with difficult expressions in
the questions
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Check to make sure students understand
the questions

WHILE-YOU-READ
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Reduce the load
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Break the passage into smaller parts
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Unit 7 - Economic Reforms: Before Doi Moi
– Government’s actions – After Doi Moi
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Vocabulary-in-context tasks: help students
locate the words; provide examples; provide
other contexts;etc.
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Change the task: Unit 2 – Task 1  Matching;
MCQ…

WHILE-YOU-READ
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Help students to understand the text
before get them to answer the
questions
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Timeline
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Table/Chart
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Map
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Visuals

WHILE-YOU-READ
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Check students’ understanding
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Ask for evidence
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Check on understanding of contents:
Elaborate on the answers
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Check on understanding of language
contents

WHILE-YOU-READ
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Develop skills
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Skimming: Which sentence = most
important
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Vocab-in-context: How you arrive at the
meaning is more important than the
meaning itself
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Scanning: Find the information  read
around
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Etc.

AFTER-YOU-READ

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Adapt tasks
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Life in the future: robots  travel/ work
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Higher education: Talking about subjects
 Summarize the reading contents

FINAL NOTES
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Careful pre-teaching  better understanding
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Understand the text first, answer questions later
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Being able to relate to the reading contents 
students more interested
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Answering the questions correctly #
comprehending