Teaching Reading Skills

The real purpose of reading is for students to learn more about grammar and how the written language is structured.

• True

• False

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Students don’t need to be aware of the reading sub-skills like skimming or scanning. That’s information the teacher needs to know.

• True

• False

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It is important to pre-teach all the new vocabulary before students read the text.

• True

• False

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Teachers should select the appropriate text for students to read according to _____ of the students.

• age

• level

• taste

• All are correct

Students should develop the habit of reading __________.

• loudly

• silently

• in groups

• in pairs

Role play is a technique to teach reading skills in the _____ stage.

• pre-

• while

• post

Using graded comprehension questions is the only real way of checking that students have understood the text.

• True

• False

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Get students to think about the topic before they start reading, and try to predict what the text is about, they find the text easier to understand.

• True

• False

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It is important to pre-teach all the new vocabulary before students read the text.

• True

• False

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I don't think students learn a lot from reading things like timetables, indexes, recipes or directories.

• True

• False

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