Teacher Training Session Active Reading Skills Suganthi TKrishnan

Teacher Training Session Active Reading Skills Suganthi TKrishnan www. britishcouncil. org 1

Quick Quiz: 1. Name the skills in language learning. Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking 2. Which of these are productive skills? Writing and speaking 3. What are the other skills called? Reading and listening are called Receptive skills. Active Reading Skills www. britishcouncil. org 2

Active Reading Session Aims: By the end of the session you will have: • Participated in a model Reading Skills lesson • A clear idea of the stages in a Reading Skills lesson • A set of class activities to make Reading an ‘active’ skill • Identified the different approaches to Teaching Reading • Assessed how useful a demo lesson is in Teacher Training www. britishcouncil. org 3

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Take a minute to arrange these stages of life in order: 1. 3. meet someone leave school 4. 6. d e i rr ge fal l in lov e 8. retire a m t start work www. britishcouncil. org 2. 7. n e dr v ha il h ec 5. get e ngag ed 5

You have 30 seconds to look at this………. . © Reading Extra, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Pg 16, 17 www. britishcouncil. org 6

Now, answer the following questions: Where is the text from? From a newspaper What is it about? The longest married couple in the UK Who is in the photos? Fred and Olive Hodges, the longest married couple in the UK www. britishcouncil. org 7

Read this paragraph carefully. You have three minutes. © Reading Extra, Cambridge University Press, 2004, Pg 16, 17 www. britishcouncil. org 8

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Are these sentences true or false? 1. Fred and Olive first met in winter. 2. They were from Northampton. 3. They got married in 1925. 4. John and Brenda didn’t have children. 5. Fred and Olive bought a house in Northampton. www. britishcouncil. org 10

Past tense verbs from the article: 1 2 3 4 saved met came was skated left gave had started You make the past form of verb by adding ‘-ed’ Regular verbs – saved, started You cannot add ‘-ed’ to make the past form Irregular verbs – met, gave What do we call the verbs in column 4 above? Auxiliary Verbs www. britishcouncil. org 11

In groups…. . Write a summary Fred and Olive first …. 1915. They met again in ……war. They fell… engaged. In 1925 they bought …. Married. Fred and Olive …. Children. Fred … 1960 s. The couple …. 102. They now have …. Great-grandchildren. They live … home. They have been …. In April. They are … longest married couple. www. britishcouncil. org 12

In groups…. Discuss Who are the longest married couple you know? What do you think is the secret of a successful marriage? In the future, do you think marriage will be regarded as being as important an institution as it is now? www. britishcouncil. org 13

Re-cap : How did we begin this session? What did we do next? Can you list the sequence the activities we did in this session? Example: Stages of life, ordering them, …. , Read quickly, guess what might be in the passage…. . Which activities were pre- reading, while-reading and post-reading? www. britishcouncil. org 14

Pre-teach difficult vocabulary Pre-Reading Preview grammar to be used in passage Activate Schemata- See what learners already know about the topic Skim for gist, check prediction While Reading Read intensively to help notice grammar (pronouns) Read for detail Read for specific information Write a summary. Post-Reading Speak about related topic www. britishcouncil. org 15

Top down or Bottom up? In this session we used learners existing knowledge about the context to facilitate reading – Top down reading. Sometimes, we go from knowing individual words to the larger picture – Bottom Up reading Top down or bottom up reading? • Learner type • Objective of the lesson www. britishcouncil. org 16

Demo lessons in Teacher Training www. britishcouncil. org 17

Look out for the other British Council Teacher Training Workshops at TEC 14 Suganthi. tkrishnan@britishcouncil. org www. britishcouncil. org 18

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