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What is Extensive reading?
Reading longer texts, such as a novel, over time. The more someone reads, the more they pick up items of vocabulary and grammar from the texts.
What kind of Extensive Reading Activities do you know?
Students draw the picture of the scene. When finished, they compare and discuss their different interpretations.
Introduction and lead-in, eg get the learners interested in the topic, initial discussion of key themes, make an explicit link between the topic of the text and s-s' own lives and experiences, focus on important lang. that will come in tex
Pre-text
Follow-on task, eg role play, debate, writing task (eg write a letter in reply), personalisation (eg 'Have you ever had an experience like this one?')
Post-text
2 examles of specific ideas for reading tasks?
Put these cut-up paragraphs in the correct order. . Find words in the text that mean the same as the words in this list..
Tasks to focus on fast reading for gist (skimming), eg check text against predictions made beforehand, guess the title from a choice of three options, put events (or illustrations) in the correct order
Text
What university did Mrs. Torgyn graduate from?
SDU University
True/False: In everyday life, extensive reading is typically characterized by a slow and careful approach to understand every word
False
Students are encouraged to move their eyes quickly over the text to locate specific pieces of information, a process known as __________
scanning
The traditional "reading for detail" approach may not necessarily make learners into better readers in real life. Why?
In order to make students better readers, we need first of all to raise their awareness that it's not always essential to understand every word
Name at least three reading activities/ games?
What is the primary focus of "intensive reading"?
Gaining an overall understanding of the text
What are the main problems of students when reading a text in a foreign language? (at least three)
not knowing enough vocabulary / understands individual words but not the full text / speed
What is the synonym of “intense reading”?
reading for detail
Difference between scanning and intensive reading?
Scanning- specific info or details, a rapid reading. Intensive- reading a text carefully and thoroughly,
Some teachers use them in class for reading aloud, with different students reading short sections one after the other. This reading called?
Round the class
