Receptive Skills - reading

Reading helps students of English to learn and acquire knowledge

• True

• False

Which are the two kinds of reading?

• Intensive / Expensive

• Extensive /Intensive

• Expressive / Extensive

• Intensive / Expressive

When students read_________they are reading either for pleasure or for information that interests them

• Intensively

• Expressively

• Impressively

• Extensively

___________ is one of the best ways for students to get comprehensive input- that is, language that can understand.

• Reading slowly

• Pay attention

• Reading at the appropiated level

• Reading carefully

If a text is too difficult, what would happen?

• It wouldn't be very engaging

• It would seem more like a work than for plesure

If a text is too easy, what would happen?

• It might not be very engaging

• It would be more a work than for plesure

These books range in level from beginner(A1) to advanced (C1). Some of them re-tell stories from famous books or films. Some describe the lives of famous people. Some are original stories written specially for the appropriate level.

• Graded books / Learner literature

• Special books

• Students' book

• School books

Understanding individual words, phrases and text construction

• Bottom-up Processing

• Top-down Processing

Getting a general idea of meaning

• Bottom-up Processing

• Top-down Processing

Reading for gist, that it, getting the general meaning from a text

• Skimming

• Scanning