Teaching Reading Techniques
TEACHING READING
analyze a text
improve spelling
understand how sentences
are constructed
answer many questions
widen knowledge about
grammar and vocabulary
be aware of the importance
of collocations
use language for creative purposes
TYPES OF READING
SKIMMING
SCANNING
INTENSIVE READING
GETTING
GENERAL
INFORMATION
LOOKING FOR
THE DEFINITE
INFORMATION
GETTING
DETAIL
INFORMATION
TEACHING
TIPS
• Skim read the text
before looking at the
questions
• Read and stop when
students find necessary
information
• Ask general questions
after students finished
Skim reading
• Give specific tasks and
ask to underline the
sections of the text
where they found the
information
• Read a text several
times, analyze it and
than make the
conclusions
EXAM TRAINING FOR
READING TASK TYPES
What is the basic system of all parts of the
reading exam?
 You are given some information
 You are given some questions
 You need to connect elements of the information with
the questions
 This has to be done in a limited amount of time
What are certain skills that need to be learnt?
• How to analyse information efficiently
• An understanding of how a paragraph is structured
• Understanding exactly what a question is looking for
Should you read the text first, then the
questions OR should you read the questions
first, then the text???
There are many different ways of doing things.
• scan the text quickly to get a feeling of the subject
• Identify the different parts of the subject
• Identify where within the text these parts are located
• Read the questions carefully
• Get a clear information of what is being asked, if possible
identify which part of the text contains the information required
• Do not leave any question unanswered. If answer is not known,
GUESS
What are the basic reading exam tasks?
Multiple Choice Questions
• Many times have four choices
• All the choices may seem to be correct
• Only one answer is completely correct
• The others are nearly correct
• Maybe partially correct
What are the basic reading exam tasks?
Multiple Choice Questions
If a text has 8 paragraphs and there are 8 questions:
Usually the first question relates to the first paragraph
The second question then relates to the text after the first
What are the basic reading exam tasks?
Missing Sentences
The exercise requires the sentences to be returned to their
correct position
All the sentences of a paragraph discuss the same subject
So the missing sentence and its parent paragraph should
share the same subject
What are the basic reading exam tasks?
Multiple matching
If there are 15 questions for 4 paragraphs the
information may relate to several questions
Matching headings and questions to
paragraphs
True/False statements
Gap fill (missing phrases/paragraphs
Matching summary statements
Ordering paragraphs
There are also other tasks helping
to prepare students for exam
6. LISTING
7. MATCHING
8. MULTIPLE CHOICE CLOZE TEXT
1. ASKING/ANSWERING QUESTIONS
2. CLOZE
9. OUTLINING
3. COMPLETING
10. PARAGRAPHING
4. FINDING
DIFFERENCES/SIMILARITIES
11. TABLE FILLING
5. LABELING
LISTENING
Trains to select, remember,
Process sounds
Requires participation
Is an information-processing
activity
Needs to be taught
Requires an active effort
on the part of the students
Is basic for communicating,
learning, thinking
-announcements, apologies, awards,
-concerts, conversations,
-dialogues, directions, discussions, dramas,
-explanations,
-illustrated talks, improvisations, instructions, interviews,
introductions, invitations,
-jokes,
-meetings, monologues,
-newscasts,
-oral interpretations,
-proverbs, problem-solving groups, puns,
-radio plays, reader's theatre, rebuttals, riddles, rules,
-slogans, songs, speeches, storytelling, sports casts,
-talking circles, testimonials, tributes,
-voice mail messages,
-weather forecasts, and others.
There should be a planned programme
to increase listening skills abilities
1. Pre-listening Warm-ups
2. Listening Tasks
Pre-listening Warm-ups
Using pictures
Predicting
Vocabulary
Personalizing
Predicting
Facts
Practicing Tenses
Vocabulary
Volleyball
Number Game
Students listen for/to…
1. the main idea or gist
6. re-order a jumbled
dialogue
2. specific information
7. take notes
3. check if your answers
are right or wrong
8. complete pictures
4. check for mistakes
9. other learners
5. dictation
10. match picture with
descriptions
What to test ?
How to test ?
Multiple Choice
General comprehension
Main ideas
Summation
Drawing conclusions
Specific details
Implications/Inference
Explicit/Implicit information
Listening between the lines
True/False
Cloze
Short Answer
Paraphrase/Summary
Dictation
Look at the picture of three girls. Try to remember their
names and the names of the fairy tales they are from.
Match the names to the pictures. Guess the fairy tale.
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Cinderella
Snow White
LISTENING 2
Puss in Boots
Match the words 1-3 to their explanation.
There is one extra explanation.
Guess what fairy tale you are going to listen.
To trick
An ogre
To turn into
A cruel man-eating giant
A person who steals
To make a person feel ridiculous
To change the appearance
How many people are
you going to listen
about?
Who are you going to
listen about?
Thank you
for attention and
participation!