15-06-2022

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Today

• Presentations:
• Today: practising reading skills

Lesson Goals

After this lesson, you can...

• read and understand a text about sports
• determine and use reading strategies for a text

30 Seconds

• various sports cards
• 30 seconds: describe item without naming it
• other group members: guess! 

Reading Strategies

• Title: Hang on to your skeleton
• Subtitle: Roland White tries the only
   Winter Olympic sport in which Britain
   has a chance of gold

What is the text about?
How do you know?

Reading Strategies

• Read the question carefully to know what is asked of you
• Highlight important words from the question
• Determine which part of the text you have to read (line  numbers, paragraphs, words related
  to the question, etc.)
• Question 1

Fill in the Gap

• Skim the text to have a general idea what it is about
• Read the sentence before and after the gap
• Try to think of a word that would fit the sentence...
• ...before you check the possible answers
• Select the one that matches your own answer best!
• Check if it makes sense in the sentence/text
• Question 4 and 5

Let's get to work!

Fill in the questions for this text 

Done? Work on your presentation or play 30 seconds :)

What is a good approach to answering exam questions?

What does NOT belong to the reading strategy for a fill-in-the-gap question?

1. read the sentence before and after the gap
2. read the first and last paragraph
3. skim the text
4. think of a possible answer yourself

Again: select your topic!

• What do you want to read a text about?
• Sports edition: try to stick the post-it note on the door as high as you can!

Almost there

• What do you want to read a text about?
   - write down on post-it
   - stick it on the door on your way out --> as high as you can!