Reading practice

Practicing Reading.
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Practicing Reading.

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What are today's goals?
  • Practicing with different reading strategies
  • Work in groups - reading activity

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Reading strategies
- Previewing.
- Contextualizing.
- Summarizing.
- Skimming.
- Scanning.

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Reading strategies
- Previewing.
- Contextualizing.
- Summarizing.
- Skimming.
- Scanning.

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Read quickly. Try to explain, in your own words, what happened.

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Jail job applicant not hired, arrested instead in theft case.

Slide 6 - Open question

Previewing
Looking for things that can tell you a bit more before reading the entire article.
Things like:
- Headlines and pictures
- Starting phrases of paragraphs

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What do you think happened?

Slide 9 - Open question

Contextualizing
Putting a text into context.
This makes it easier to make sense of new information.
You're looking for reference points. Is it a story about the entire world or just a certain place. Is it about history, current events or the future?

(Je plaatst de tekst - Waar, wanneer, hoe, enz.)

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In what kind of context would you put this article?

Slide 12 - Open question

What's the difference between
skimming and scanning?

Slide 13 - Mind map

Slide 14 - Link

Slide 15 - Link

Group activity
Work in groups of 3 or 4
1 of you leads the activity, 
2 or 3 of you do the activity

Choose 9.2 Intermediate (exam level) or 9.3 Upper Intermediate (more challenging than exam level)

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