Stages for Reading

 

 

Create interest in the text

•Pre-teach new vocabulary and clarify culturally specific references.

•Set the first Reading task, and a time limit for this.

•Students Read for the first time.

•Students compare their findings in pairs, followed by a brief class feedback.

•Set a 2nd more detailed Reading task.

•Make sure students are familiar with and have understood the task.

•Students compare their findings in pairs, followed by a brief class feedback. Teacher may need to refer to specific passages to clarify doubts.

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•Freer speaking or writing in the context of the reading, that possibly facilitates the students use the grammar, function or vocabulary focused on earlier.