# Transforming English For You into Headway: Organizing Reading Tasks in Large Multilevel Classes Within a Strict Curriculum and With Limited Resources Canonical page: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717 - SlideShare title: Teaching Reading: Transforming English For You Into Headway - Talk date: Not established - SlideShare upload: 2007-08-18 (upload date, not the delivery date) - Event: Not established - Place: Not established - Topics: Language & meaning - Language: en - Slides in the original listing: 20 - Coverage: Full text of all 20 slides, each paired with its original slide image (slide N is section N). - Original listing: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/93717 - Cover image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-01.png - Reader data (JSON): https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/presentation.json - TalkWeaver package (outline and images, ZIP): https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717-talkweaver.zip - TalkWeaver outline: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/talkweaver/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717-outline.md ## Slide 1: Transforming English For You into Headway: Organizing Reading Tasks in Large Multilevel Classes Within a Strict Curriculum and With Limited Resources Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-1 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-01.png Dominik Lukes Peace Corps ## Slide 2: Nothing new Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-2 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-02.png How to do the things you already know… …and not to lesson plan yourself to death. ## Slide 3: Teacher Complaints Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-3 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-03.png - Students of many levels in one class - Too many students in classrooms - Textbooks inappropriate to the level of students - Not enough time for creative lesson planning - Strict inspections ## Slide 4: Teaching Reading (All the theory in under 30 seconds) Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-4 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-04.png - Two goals for teachers - Learn language (vocabulary, functional grammar, phrases) - Learn how to work with texts (acquire additional learning skills) - Two purposes for students - For enjoyment - For information - Two cognitive modes - For detail - For gist ## Slide 5: Reading Steps Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-5 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-05.png - *Pre-Reading* - **While-Reading** - Post-Reading ## Slide 6: Sample Reading Lesson Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-6 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-06.png - Using text from *English for You 1* - Headway-like reading lesson - No photocopier necessary - No supplementary materials necessary - Reusable exercises - No students need to leave their seats - Discipline can be maintained easily (for most of the lesson) - Students of all levels can learn something ## Slide 7: Blackboard Exercise 1 Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-7 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-07.png | People | Computers | Good/Bad | |--------|-----------|----------| | | | | ## Slide 8: Blackboard Exercise 2 Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-8 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-08.png - **Paragraph 2:** - a) People are great; - b) Why are people unique?; - c) Why are computers bad? - **Paragraph 5:** - 1. Some people are afraid that computers will replace people. - 2. In the future, doctors and journalists will use computers a lot. - 3. Computers will replace doctors and journalists. ## Slide 9: Lesson Debriefing Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-9 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-09.png - Aims of the lesson - Steps of the lesson - How can this activity be modified for different levels, students, texts ## Slide 10: Lesson Aims Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-10 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-10.png - Language skills: vocabulary - Reading skills: summarizing, searching for specific information - Other skills: critical thinking (predictions, personalization, preferences) ## Slide 11: Step 1: Warm up Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-11 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-11.png - **Activity:** - Ask students about computers - **Purpose:** - Engage students’ interest - Activate appropriate vocabulary - **Alternatives:** Have this discussion in Albanian; Review homework with relevant materials; Teach computer-related vocabulary; Do a vocab game ## Slide 12: Step 2: Text prep Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-12 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-12.png - **Activity:** - Number paragraphs - **Purpose:** - Make text easier to refer to for all students - Give students their first encounter with the text in an easy task - **Notes:** Use pencil if necessary ## Slide 13: Step 3: Getting to gist through prediction Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-13 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-13.png - **Activity:** - Guess what text is about from title - Search for the number of words used to refer to computers and people; write down things said about people and computers in a chart - **Purpose:** - Summarize the text - Show Ss a strategy for discovering gist - **Alternatives:** 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 ## Slide 14: Step 4: New vocabulary Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-14 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-14.png - **Activity:** - Find one new word in each of the selected paragraphs - **Purpose:** - Make it easier for Ss to do the upcoming exercises - Allow lower level Ss to do different activity than higher level Ss - **Alternatives:** Teach selected new words (based on what you know about Ss) and have Ss find them in text ## Slide 15: Step 5: Summarizing the text Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-15 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-15.png - **Activity:** - Summarize paragraphs 2-5 in different ways - **Purpose:** - Help Ss understand the main idea of the text - Show Ss different strategies for summarizing - **Alternatives:** 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 ## Slide 16: Step 6: More vocabulary Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-16 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-16.png - **Activity:** - Play a game with synonyms - **Purpose:** - Engage Ss with text some more and give them a fun activity to do - Teach Ss new words - Prepare Ss for difficult exercise on p. 91 (homework) ## Slide 17: Step 7: Making connections Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-17 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-17.png - **Activity:** - Talk about the context of the text and the Ss views on the subject matter - **Purpose:** - Help Ss understand the author and his or her intentions - Allow Ss to express personal opinions on the text - Help Ss discover statements made by texts - **Alternatives:** Use more questions from page 90. ## Slide 18: Step 8: Post-reading activities Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-18 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-18.png - **Activity:** - Have Ss write a story about a part of the text - **Purpose:** - Employ additional language not in the text - Show Ss understanding of the contents of the text - Allow different level students to do an activity at their own level - **Alternatives:** Write about Ss own experiences with computers (e.g. some questions on p. 90) ## Slide 19: Summary through questions Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-19 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-19.png - Why reading skills? - Why not reading out loud? - Why not read the whole text at once (or why not at all)? - Why/when/how (not) translation? - Where else could these types of exercises be used? - What should have come before and what comes next? ## Slide 20: Contact Cite: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717#section-20 · Original slide image: https://slides.dominiklukes.net/readers/teaching-reading-transforming-english-for-you-into-headway-93717/pages/page-20.png - 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