Reading strategies and state verbs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Reading Strategies

20 October 2020

Today's program

Lesson aims - 1 minute

State verbs recap and quiz - 6 minutes

Reading strategies - 35 minutes

Lesson aims achieved - 1 minute

Lesson outcomes

I can name 2 reading strategies .

I can use reading strategies.when reading.

State verbs 

- Not action / active verbs

- Cannot use 'to be' with stative verbs (Rule!)

- Not usually used with the present continuous form

• Feelings / emotions: love, hate, like
• Senses: hear, see, feel, smell, sound (tricky!)
• Thinking: forget, remember, be, know, understand, imagine
• Belongings: own, have, belong

Choose the correct sentence

1. At the moment, he is seeming happy.
2. He is seeming happy at the moment
3. He happy is seeming at the moment.
4. He seems happy at the moment

Choose the correct sentence.

1. He tasting the cake
2. He tastes the cake.

Choose the correct sentence

1. I'm not knowing the answer.
2. I don't know the answer.
3. I'm knowing not the answer.
4. I knowing not the answer.

What is a state verb?

Reading Strategies

Look at these images and the text.

Predict what this
text is about?

WB, exercise 13, page 15

Skim the text, but do not read it yet.  

In your notebooks, answer these questions.

• What does a shepherd do?
• What would an assistant shepherd do?
• Where do you live if you are Welsh?

WB, exercise 13, page 15

• Read the text " The Life of a Welsh Shepherd".
• While reading put the verbs in brackets in the correct form (write your answers in your notebook)
• While reading, write down the words that you don't understand.
• If you are finished, check your answers.

Select all the statements that are true.

1. Owen sees lots of people every week.
2. A shepherd's boss is the weather.
3. You're on your own on the mountain.
4. Owen's dogs are called Flo and Ben

Select all the statements that are true.

1. Owen spends 6 days a week with his sheep.
2. The job pays £12 per hour.
3. The job includes accommodation.
4. Owen has two dogs.

Would you like to work as a shepherd? Use the text to explain your answer?

Were there any words in the text that you didn't understand? Which ones?

Were your predictions
correct?

Reading Strategies

- Predicting: guessing what the text will be about, images, title

- Skimming: topic, main points

- Scanning: specific information

- Context: guess meaning from context

- Intensive reading: complete understanding

Name 2 reading strategies you used today?

Were the lesson outcomes achieved?

I can name 2 reading strategies.

I can use reading strategies when reading.