Reading practice & Question making

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome 

Please take your seat

Grab a pen/pencil and a piece of paper

Put your laptop, phone and earbuds in your bag

Class rules

Laptops are half-closed when needed and NO GAMING

Listen to each other and to me :) 

Raise your hand if you want to say anything.

Try to speak as much English as you can. 

Respect!

Today's planning

1st hour:

• Tips and tricks 
• Read read read!
  
  
  
• do NOT write on the texts

Tips and tricks

1: Start by reading the title and looking at the pictures.

2: Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.

3: Read the questions and pick a strategy.

Skim: read the introduction and pay attention to the bigger picture.

Scan: find a specific piece of information in the text.

Detailed: read the entire text because you need to understand.

4: Read and answer the question.

Finished? --> log into Readtheory

Answers text one

Assignment 1:

True: 1, 4, 7

False: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8

Assignment 2:

1: Alcatraz Island                                      4: Golden Gate Bridge

2. Madame Tussauds Hollywood             5: San Francisco 

3. Santa Cruz Surfing Museum                6: Grammy Museum

Answers text two

Assignment 3:

True: 2, 4

False: 1, 3, 5, 6

Assignment 4:

For: zoos educate the people & provide a safe space for animals.

Against: stripped from their natural habitat & used for entertainment

Answers text three

Assignment 5:

1: Magazine writer                   4: Model

2: Trainee hairdresser             5: Café worker

3: Support worker

Assignment 6:

A: 1, 8                                     D: 2

B: 4                                         E: 5, 7

C: 3, 6

Check and practice

Count your points

You need 29 out of 37 for a 6.0

Time left? Go to www.skribbl.io and play charades - draw the word and others guess in the chat

Celebration time

Welcome, A2b!

LOs:

I can work with another person to create a variety of questions based on a text.

I can read a different article and answer a variety of questions created by another pair.

What and How?

• In pairs - Get an article - skim it to get the main idea behind the story.
• Create 8-10 questions based on the story = read the text again, more carefully.
• Swap texts and questions with another pair and practice reading comprehension!
• But first...

What TYPE of questions do you often see when practicing reading?

Types of Questions

Identifying information

Identifying writer's view

4 Levels of Questions

1. Robot
   
   
   
2. Detective
   
   
   
3. Judge
   
   
   
4. Inventor

Who, what, where, when!
What happened first, second...
Who are ... ? / What is the problem?

Why...?
What caused ...?
Why do you think ...?

Would you agree that...?
Do you agree with...? Why/ not?
How do you know ...?

How would you ...?
What would you do if ...?
If you were ...?

2x Robot

3x Detective

2x Judge

2x Inventor

Swap texts

Find a pair who had a different article - swap with them

First: with your partner, look at the heading/pictures = predict what the article is going to be about!

Then: Read (was your prediction correct?) and answer their questions

Last: Check answers with them - were you correct?