How to teach reading (lớp 12)

FACILITATING
READING TASKS
Nguoi huong dan :Nguyen Thi Lien

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…