Teaching English as a Foreign Language

140 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Choose a piece of writing that your students are likely to be interested in and is at the ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 141 Make sure that your students have a copy of the alphabet in the correct ...

142 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Graduating from words to sentences with the help of punctuation In order for students to u ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 143 ✓! Exclamation mark: You use this mark to show that there’s stronger emo ...

144 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Looking at length Once students are comfortable with sentences, give some consideration to ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 145 Put together a selection of these text types: ✓ Diary entries ✓ Emails ✓ ...

146 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Finding your way around Helping your students to identify the structure of a reading text ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 147 Another more detailed scanning activity is called multiple matching. Thi ...

148 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Some ideas for summarising are to have students read separate related texts, which they th ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 149 Before you set off You can make new words a pre-reading task (see ‘Getti ...

150 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes And of course, loads of foreign words have been pasted into English and vice versa, so it ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 151 Before long, students can start performing short dialogues from a script ...

152 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes The text is incomplete so that the students can extend the dialogue themselves. Comprehens ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 153 Pre-reading task (15 minutes): Ask each student to find ten words asso- ...

154 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Put the students in pairs to compare their answers and then have a short feedback session ...

Chapter 10: Taken as Read: Teaching Reading Lessons 155 Homework (5 minutes): Students can write an essay in four paragraphs on ...

156 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes ...

Chapter 11 Chapter 11: Write or Wrong? Teaching Writing Lessons Writing Lessons In This Chapter ▶ Getting started ▶ Presenting a ...

158 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Paying attention to basic writing skills Most EFL teachers are fortunate enough to have st ...

Chapter 11: Write or Wrong? Teaching Writing Lessons 159 ✓ The blue bag is there. ✓ I like chicken, fish and pork, for example. ...