Teaching Reading课件.pptVIP

a. Pre-reading Activities predicting, setting the scene, skimming, scanning predicting Predicting based on the title Work in pairs. Look at the three titles and predict the contents of the texts. When you are ready, join another pair and compare your predictions and the clues that helped you to make the predictions. A Nation of Pet-Lovers Save the Jungle: Save the World Police Hunt for Child predicting Predicting based on vocabulary Predict the contents of the text entitled Drinking While Driving. Predicting based on the T/F questions Read the following statements about how to behave at a job interview. In the Before reading column, tick(√) the statements that you think are true. Then read the article How to Shine at a Job Interview and do the exercise again. 1. Always try to please the interviewer. 2. Do not try to dominate the interview. 3. Never interrupt the interviewer. 4. If necessary, disagree with the interviewer. 5. Never change your mind. Setting the scene Setting the scene means getting the students familiarized with the cultural and social background knowledge relevant to the reading text. The culture-bound aspect of the text can start right at the beginning with the title. For instance, what do you think the following tiltles probably mean? Green Bananas All Greek to Me Green Bananas Literary meaning: unripe bananas. Implied meaning: someone new and unfamiliar within a cultural context. All Greek to Me Greek is a language not many people can speak or write nowadays. All Greek to Memeans everything is new and unknown to me. Skimming Skimming means reading quickly to get the gist, i.e. the main idea of the text. Below are some suggestions that may help teachers to set up skimming activities. Ask general questions which aloow students to focus on one or two things. Provide 3-4 statements one of which represents the main idea. Provide subtitles for different parts of text and ask students to put them in the right place. Scanni