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  "title": "Transforming English For You into Headway: Organizing Reading Tasks in Large Multilevel Classes Within a Strict Curriculum and With Limited Resources",
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      "title": "Transforming English For You into Headway: Organizing Reading Tasks in Large Multilevel Classes W…",
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      "html": "<h3>Transforming <em>English For You</em> into <em>Headway</em>: Organizing <strong>Reading</strong> Tasks in Large Multilevel Classes Within a Strict Curriculum and With Limited Resources</h3><p>Dominik Lukes</p><p>Peace Corps</p><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=1\">View original slide 1</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-2",
      "title": "Nothing new",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 2",
      "html": "<h3>Nothing new</h3><p>How to do the things you already know…</p><p>…and not to lesson plan yourself to death.</p><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=2\">View original slide 2</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-3",
      "title": "Teacher Complaints",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 3",
      "html": "<h3>Teacher Complaints</h3><ul><li>Students of many levels in one class</li><li>Too many students in classrooms</li><li>Textbooks inappropriate to the level of students</li><li>Not enough time for creative lesson planning</li><li>Strict inspections</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=3\">View original slide 3</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-4",
      "title": "Teaching Reading (All the theory in under 30 seconds)",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 4",
      "html": "<h3>Teaching Reading (All the theory in under 30 seconds)</h3><ul><li>Two goals for teachers<ul><li>Learn language (vocabulary, functional grammar, phrases)</li><li>Learn how to work with texts (acquire additional learning skills)</li></ul></li><li>Two purposes for students<ul><li>For enjoyment</li><li>For information</li></ul></li><li>Two cognitive modes<ul><li>For detail</li><li>For gist</li></ul></li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=4\">View original slide 4</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-5",
      "title": "Reading Steps",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 5",
      "html": "<h3>Reading Steps</h3><ul><li><em>Pre-Reading</em></li><li><strong>While-Reading</strong></li><li>Post-Reading</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=5\">View original slide 5</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-6",
      "title": "Sample Reading Lesson",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 6",
      "html": "<h3>Sample Reading Lesson</h3><ul><li>Using text from <em>English for You 1</em></li><li>Headway-like reading lesson</li><li>No photocopier necessary</li><li>No supplementary materials necessary</li><li>Reusable exercises</li><li>No students need to leave their seats</li><li>Discipline can be maintained easily (for most of the lesson)</li><li>Students of all levels can learn something</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=6\">View original slide 6</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-7",
      "title": "Blackboard Exercise 1",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 7",
      "html": "<h3>Blackboard Exercise 1</h3><table><thead><tr><th>People</th><th>Computers</th><th>Good/Bad</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=7\">View original slide 7</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-8",
      "title": "Blackboard Exercise 2",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 8",
      "html": "<h3>Blackboard Exercise 2</h3><ul><li><strong>Paragraph 2:</strong><ul><li>a) People are great;</li><li>b) Why are people unique?;</li><li>c) Why are computers bad?</li></ul></li><li><strong>Paragraph 5:</strong><ul><li>1. Some people are afraid that computers will replace people.</li><li>2. In the future, doctors and journalists will use computers a lot.</li><li>3. Computers will replace doctors and journalists.</li></ul></li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=8\">View original slide 8</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-9",
      "title": "Lesson Debriefing",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 9",
      "html": "<h3>Lesson Debriefing</h3><ul><li>Aims of the lesson</li><li>Steps of the lesson</li><li>How can this activity be modified for different levels, students, texts</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=9\">View original slide 9</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-10",
      "title": "Lesson Aims",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 10",
      "html": "<h3>Lesson Aims</h3><ul><li>Language skills: vocabulary</li><li>Reading skills: summarizing, searching for specific information</li><li>Other skills: critical thinking (predictions, personalization, preferences)</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=10\">View original slide 10</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-11",
      "title": "Step 1: Warm up",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 11",
      "html": "<h3>Step 1: Warm up</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Ask students about computers</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Engage students’ interest</li><li>Activate appropriate vocabulary</li></ul></li><li><strong>Alternatives:</strong> Have this discussion in Albanian; Review homework with relevant materials; Teach computer-related vocabulary; Do a vocab game</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=11\">View original slide 11</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-12",
      "title": "Step 2: Text prep",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 12",
      "html": "<h3>Step 2: Text prep</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Number paragraphs</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Make text easier to refer to for all students</li><li>Give students their first encounter with the text in an easy task</li></ul></li><li><strong>Notes:</strong> Use pencil if necessary</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=12\">View original slide 12</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-13",
      "title": "Step 3: Getting to gist through prediction",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 13",
      "html": "<h3>Step 3: Getting to gist through prediction</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Guess what text is about from title</li><li>Search for the number of words used to refer to computers and people; write down things said about people and computers in a chart</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Summarize the text</li><li>Show Ss a strategy for discovering gist</li></ul></li><li><strong>Alternatives:</strong> Ask Ss (if more advanced) to write a subtitle to the text; Ask Ss to predict what the text will say based on certain key words; If resources allow – use scrambled text</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=13\">View original slide 13</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-14",
      "title": "Step 4: New vocabulary",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 14",
      "html": "<h3>Step 4: New vocabulary</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Find one new word in each of the selected paragraphs</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Make it easier for Ss to do the upcoming exercises</li><li>Allow lower level Ss to do different activity than higher level Ss</li></ul></li><li><strong>Alternatives:</strong> Teach selected new words (based on what you know about Ss) and have Ss find them in text</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=14\">View original slide 14</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-15",
      "title": "Step 5: Summarizing the text",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 15",
      "html": "<h3>Step 5: Summarizing the text</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Summarize paragraphs 2-5 in different ways</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Help Ss understand the main idea of the text</li><li>Show Ss different strategies for summarizing</li></ul></li><li><strong>Alternatives:</strong> With different texts or more advanced Ss: Ask Ss to break text into sections with subtitles, draw a chart of the argument, or plot and characters for stories</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=15\">View original slide 15</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-16",
      "title": "Step 6: More vocabulary",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 16",
      "html": "<h3>Step 6: More vocabulary</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Play a game with synonyms</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Engage Ss with text some more and give them a fun activity to do</li><li>Teach Ss new words</li><li>Prepare Ss for difficult exercise on p. 91 (homework)</li></ul></li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=16\">View original slide 16</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-17",
      "title": "Step 7: Making connections",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 17",
      "html": "<h3>Step 7: Making connections</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Talk about the context of the text and the Ss views on the subject matter</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Help Ss understand the author and his or her intentions</li><li>Allow Ss to express personal opinions on the text</li><li>Help Ss discover statements made by texts</li></ul></li><li><strong>Alternatives:</strong> Use more questions from page 90.</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=17\">View original slide 17</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-18",
      "title": "Step 8: Post-reading activities",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 18",
      "html": "<h3>Step 8: Post-reading activities</h3><ul><li><strong>Activity:</strong><ul><li>Have Ss write a story about a part of the text</li></ul></li><li><strong>Purpose:</strong><ul><li>Employ additional language not in the text</li><li>Show Ss understanding of the contents of the text</li><li>Allow different level students to do an activity at their own level</li></ul></li><li><strong>Alternatives:</strong> Write about Ss own experiences with computers (e.g. some questions on p. 90)</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=18\">View original slide 18</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-19",
      "title": "Summary through questions",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 19",
      "html": "<h3>Summary through questions</h3><ul><li>Why reading skills?</li><li>Why not reading out loud?</li><li>Why not read the whole text at once (or why not at all)?</li><li>Why/when/how (not) translation?</li><li>Where else could these types of exercises be used?</li><li>What should have come before and what comes next?</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=19\">View original slide 19</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "section-20",
      "title": "Contact",
      "level": 2,
      "headingHtml": "Slide 20",
      "html": "<h3>Contact</h3><ul><li>dlukes@al.peacecorps.gov</li><li>me@dominiklukes.net</li><li>www.bohemica.com</li><li>www.dominiklukes.net</li></ul><p><a href=\"/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717?mode=originals&amp;page=20\">View original slide 20</a></p>"
    }
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      "text": "Transforming English For You into Headway: Organizing Reading Tasks in Large Multilevel Classes Within a Strict Curriculum and With Limited Resources\nDominik Lukes\nPeace Corps"
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-02.png",
      "text": "Nothing new\nHow to do the things you already know…\n…and not to lesson plan yourself to death."
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-03.png",
      "text": "Teacher Complaints\nStudents of many levels in one class\nToo many students in classrooms\nTextbooks inappropriate to the level of students\nNot enough time for creative lesson planning\nStrict inspections"
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-04.png",
      "text": "Teaching Reading (All the theory in under 30 seconds)\nTwo goals for teachers\nLearn language (vocabulary, functional grammar, phrases)\nLearn how to work with texts (acquire additional learning skills)\nTwo purposes for students\nFor enjoyment\nFor information\nTwo cognitive modes\nFor detail\nFor gist"
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-05.png",
      "text": "Reading Steps\nPre-Reading\nWhile-Reading\nPost-Reading"
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    {
      "number": 6,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-06.png",
      "text": "Sample Reading Lesson\nUsing text from English for You 1\nHeadway-like reading lesson\nNo photocopier necessary\nNo supplementary materials necessary\nReusable exercises\nNo students need to leave their seats\nDiscipline can be maintained easily (for most of the lesson)\nStudents of all levels can learn something"
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-07.png",
      "text": "Blackboard Exercise 1\nPeople | Computers | Good/Bad"
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    {
      "number": 8,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-08.png",
      "text": "Blackboard Exercise 2\nParagraph 2:\na) People are great;\nb) Why are people unique?;\nc) Why are computers bad?\nParagraph 5:\n1. Some people are afraid that computers will replace people.\n2. In the future, doctors and journalists will use computers a lot.\n3. Computers will replace doctors and journalists."
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-09.png",
      "text": "Lesson Debriefing\nAims of the lesson\nSteps of the lesson\nHow can this activity be modified for different levels, students, texts"
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    {
      "number": 10,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-10.png",
      "text": "Lesson Aims\nLanguage skills: vocabulary\nReading skills: summarizing, searching for specific information\nOther skills: critical thinking (predictions, personalization, preferences)"
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-11.png",
      "text": "Step 1: Warm up\nActivity:\nAsk students about computers\nPurpose:\nEngage students’ interest\nActivate appropriate vocabulary\nAlternatives: Have this discussion in Albanian; Review homework with relevant materials; Teach computer-related vocabulary; Do a vocab game"
    },
    {
      "number": 12,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-12.png",
      "text": "Step 2: Text prep\nActivity:\nNumber paragraphs\nPurpose:\nMake text easier to refer to for all students\nGive students their first encounter with the text in an easy task\nNotes: Use pencil if necessary"
    },
    {
      "number": 13,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-13.png",
      "text": "Step 3: Getting to gist through prediction\nActivity:\nGuess what text is about from title\nSearch for the number of words used to refer to computers and people; write down things said about people and computers in a chart\nPurpose:\nSummarize the text\nShow Ss a strategy for discovering gist\nAlternatives: Ask Ss (if more advanced) to write a subtitle to the text; Ask Ss to predict what the text will say based on certain key words; If resources allow – use scrambled text"
    },
    {
      "number": 14,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-14.png",
      "text": "Step 4: New vocabulary\nActivity:\nFind one new word in each of the selected paragraphs\nPurpose:\nMake it easier for Ss to do the upcoming exercises\nAllow lower level Ss to do different activity than higher level Ss\nAlternatives: Teach selected new words (based on what you know about Ss) and have Ss find them in text"
    },
    {
      "number": 15,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-15.png",
      "text": "Step 5: Summarizing the text\nActivity:\nSummarize paragraphs 2-5 in different ways\nPurpose:\nHelp Ss understand the main idea of the text\nShow Ss different strategies for summarizing\nAlternatives: With different texts or more advanced Ss: Ask Ss to break text into sections with subtitles, draw a chart of the argument, or plot and characters for stories"
    },
    {
      "number": 16,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-16.png",
      "text": "Step 6: More vocabulary\nActivity:\nPlay a game with synonyms\nPurpose:\nEngage Ss with text some more and give them a fun activity to do\nTeach Ss new words\nPrepare Ss for difficult exercise on p. 91 (homework)"
    },
    {
      "number": 17,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-17.png",
      "text": "Step 7: Making connections\nActivity:\nTalk about the context of the text and the Ss views on the subject matter\nPurpose:\nHelp Ss understand the author and his or her intentions\nAllow Ss to express personal opinions on the text\nHelp Ss discover statements made by texts\nAlternatives: Use more questions from page 90."
    },
    {
      "number": 18,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-18.png",
      "text": "Step 8: Post-reading activities\nActivity:\nHave Ss write a story about a part of the text\nPurpose:\nEmploy additional language not in the text\nShow Ss understanding of the contents of the text\nAllow different level students to do an activity at their own level\nAlternatives: Write about Ss own experiences with computers (e.g. some questions on p. 90)"
    },
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      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-19.png",
      "text": "Summary through questions\nWhy reading skills?\nWhy not reading out loud?\nWhy not read the whole text at once (or why not at all)?\nWhy/when/how (not) translation?\nWhere else could these types of exercises be used?\nWhat should have come before and what comes next?"
    },
    {
      "number": 20,
      "image": "/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-20.png",
      "text": "Contact\ndlukes@al.peacecorps.gov\nme@dominiklukes.net\nwww.bohemica.com\nwww.dominiklukes.net"
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