FACILITATING READING TASKS Presented by Questions to disscuss  1.what are the difficulties you have when teaching reading? What are your sollutions to the problems?  2. What are difficulties you may have when teaching reading text in English 12? What sollutions to these? Groups  Group 1: Thai Binh city: unit 1, 2  Group 2: Vu Thu: Unit 3, 4  Group 3: Kien Xuong: unit 5,6  Group 4: Dong Hung: Unit 7,8  Group 5: Hung Ha: Unit 9, 10  Group 6: Quynh Phu: unit 11,12  Group 7: Tien Hai: Unit 13, 14  Group 8: Thai Thuy: Unit 15, 16 Answers(1)  lack of  -knowledge of the topics  - of the background  - of the language BEFORE-YOU-READ  Activate students’ previous knowledge  Unit 1 – Home Life: Talk about students’ own home life  Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity: Wedding Puzzle  Unit 13 – Seagames: Seagames Fact Quiz  Build students’ knowledge of the topic  Unit 2 - Cultural Diversity: What is cultural diversity?  Unit 3 – Ways of Socializing: What is socializing? What is verbal communication? What is non-verbal behavior?  Unit 14 – International Organizations: What are these organizations? BEFORE-YOU-READ  Get students familiar with some key vocabulary  Unit 3 – Ways of socializing: Act out the verbs  Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary) before reading  Motivate students to read  Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate the words (key vocab.)  Make them curious by asking questions  they can find the answers in the reading. BEFORE-YOU-READ  Help students understand the tasks  Get students read the questions first  Help students with difficult expressions in the questions  Check to make sure students understand the questions WHILE-YOU-READ  Reduce the load  Break the passage into smaller parts  Unit 7 - Economic Reforms: Before Doi Moi – Government’s actions – After Doi Moi  Vocabulary-in-context tasks: help students locate the words; provide examples; provide other contexts;etc.  Change the task: Unit 2 – Task 1  Matching; MCQ… WHILE-YOU-READ  Help students to understand the text before get them to answer the questions  Timeline  Table/Chart  Map  Visuals WHILE-YOU-READ  Check students’ understanding  Ask for evidence  Check on understanding of contents: Elaborate on the answers  Check on understanding of language contents [...]...WHILE-YOU-READ  Develop skills     Skimming: Which sentence = most important Vocab-in-context: How you arrive at the meaning is more important than the meaning itself Scanning: Find the information  read around Etc AFTER-YOU-READ  Adapt tasks  Life in the future: robots  travel/ work  Higher education: Talking about subjects  Summarize the reading contents FINAL NOTES  Careful pre-teaching . unit 11 ,12  Group 7: Tien Hai: Unit 13, 14  Group 8: Thai Thuy: Unit 15, 16 Answers(1)  lack of  -knowledge of the topics  - of the background  - of. WHILE-YOU-READ  Help students to understand the text before get them to answer the questions  Timeline  Table/Chart  Map  Visuals WHILE-YOU-READ