Unit 10 Teaching Reading 中学英语教学法教材.ppt

If the students are not good at predicting, the teacher can help them by asking certain questions. Text 1: What is a pet? What are pets for? Why do people love pets? Are there any problems with pets? Text 2: What is a jungle? Where can you find jungles? What do you think has happened to the jungle? Text 3: What happened to the child? How do you think the parents would feel? What could the police do? Predicting based on vocabulary Having made predictions based on the title, students can be asked to predict some lexical items that they think are likely to occur in the text. Then the students read the text to confirm their predictions. A variation of this prediction activity is that the teacher provides students with a list of words, and asks the students to predict which of the words are used in the text, and to read the text and confirm their predictions. Predicting based on the T/F questions e.g. Reading “How to behave at a job interview” (p. 120) (For the text please see pp. 193-4.) Before reading After reading Always try to please the interviewer. Do not try to dominate the interviewer. Never interrupt the interviewer. If necessary, disagree with the interviewer. Never change your mind. Always try to please the interviewer. Setting the scene Setting the scene means getting the students familiar with the cultural and social background knowledge relevant to the reading text. The culture-bound aspect of the text can start at the beginning with the title. e.g.: Green Bananas All Greek to me The culture-bound aspects of a text are often of great interest to students, and they can be used to provoke an interesting discussion not only about the “other” culture, but also about the “home” culture. (e.g. Eskimos, p.121) ESKIMOS Eskimos love in the polar areas between latitude 66 N and the North Pole. There are Eskimos in Northern Canada, Greenland and Siberia. This means that they are the only people who have their origins both in the Old World (Europe an Asi