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English Reading B1
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English Reading B1
Lesson 1

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25 April
National holiday in Australia and New Zealand to remember the first militairy action in WWI at Gallipoli in Turkey  and to honour all militairy personnel that gave their lives in war situations

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Today's lesson 
Goals for today
Reading strategies 
Vocabulary
Practise


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Lesson goals for today:
  1. After this lesson, you will know different reading strategies.
  2. After this lesson, you know how to apply reading strategies.

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What do you already know about reading strategies / techniques?

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Why are reading techniques important?

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Reading techniques
  1. Predicting: what do you think is the text about?
  2. Skimming: understanding the main idea and concept. 
  3. Scanning: look for key information (for example: names, dates, numbers)
  4. Intensive reading: read and understand the complete text.

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Predicting
1. What do you think the text is about?
2. Look at the title and headings
3. Look at pictures.
4. What kind of text is it?

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Skimming
  1. To get the big picture, the global idea
  2. Focus on what the text is about in general
  3. Search for the source (=bron) of your text
  4. Read the first and last paragraph 
  5. Read the first and last line of the other paragraphs 
  6. Skip words you don't know
  7. What are the main items?

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When I skim I do this:

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Scanning 

  1. Read the title and subheadings (=tussenkopjes)
  2. When you are looking for specific information
  3. Look for keywords that tell you more about what you are looking for in a text
  4. When you find the information you are looking for, read that part more intensely
  5. Look at bold or underlined words or words in italics. 

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When do you use the reading technique scanning?
A
Deciding if you want to read a news article or not.
B
Reading and understanding a complete text.
C
When you look for a date of birth.
D
While reading a recipe.

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Intensive reading 

  1. Read the complete text, the goal is to understand the text completely
  2. Pay attention to the introduction and subheadings (=tussenkopjes)
  3. Look for the most important sentences and words 
  4. Look up the meaning of difficult words 
  5. Reread challenging paragraphs and read actively

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You should always use intensive reading during a reading test...
YES! I agree with this statement
No... I disagree with this statement.

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TIPS
  1. First read the QUESTION+ANSWERS, then read the TEXT.
  2. You don't need to know all the words in order to understand a text.
  3. Practice, practice, practice! Skills need to be TRAINED. 
  4. Useful website: British Council Teens (level B1) or the regular British Council website

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Reading Exercise
scanning for information

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What kind of text is this?
A
brochure for hiking paths
B
information about a disease
C
information about insects

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Linking words
Help you to understand the structure of a text.
They link sentences.

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Example
Traffic was heavy. Paolo was late to work. This made his boss very angry with him. He tried to apologise. His boss simply refused to listen.

Because of the heavy traffic, Paolo was late to work. As a result, his boss was angry with him. However, when he tried to apologise, his boss simply refused to listen.

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Recap reading techniques
Which techniques are there?

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Recap reading techniques
  1. Predicting: what do you think is the text about?
  2. Skimming: understanding the main idea and concept. 
  3. Scanning: look for key information (for example: names, dates, numbers)
  4. Intensive reading: read and understand the complete text.

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Time to read
what? make the stencil about a conference
how? individually
help? teacher
time? 30 min
done? Hand in your stencil and make the stencil about Jilian

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Do you have any questions?







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See you next time!!!

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