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WorksheetsTeaching Receptive Skills - Teaching Reading
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Which is NOT the purpose of test and teaching in comprehension tasks?
Raise the students’ expectations
Help students tease out meanings
Provoke an examination of the reading or listening passage
Transferring information
Which is the first step of finding word meanings?
Share their list with another student and come up with a new joint list of only five words.
Look for the meanings of their words in dictionaries and/or we can answer questions about the words which the groups have decided on.
Individual students write down five words from the text they most want to know the meaning of.
....................... often takes place outside the class and has traditionally been encouraged not for language study so much as for practising reading, having a pleasurable experience and gradually acquiring language.
Extensive reading
Intensive reading
One of the most important ways of .......... with a text is to ask them whether they like it and why – or why not.
encouraging student engagement
transferring information
‘interrogating’ the text
using reading as a springboard
We can’t give a time limit of five minutes for post-reading vocabulary enquiry, whether this involves dictionary use, language corpus searches, or questions to the teacher.
True
False
One way of helping our students is to pre-teach vocabulary that occurs in a reading or listening text.
True
False
When our students have read a text, we can use ............... for any number of follow-up activities and text-related tasks.
interrogate the text
use reading as a springboard
encourage student engagement
transfer the information
What are the purposes of test and teaching in comprehension tasks?
Raise the students’ expectations
Help them tease out meanings
Provoke an examination of the reading or listening passage
Bring students to a greater understanding of language and text construction
By the simple expedient of having students work in pairs to agree on whether a statement about part of a text is true or false, the ............... help each individual (through conversation and comparison) to understand something.
appropriate challenge
comprehension items
The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts with ..............
comprehension/response task
text-related task
lead-in
reading / listening
What are the implications of reading aloud?
Help students build foundational skills
Allow students study the text at their own pace
Allow teacher monitor how students learn sounds
Encourage students to focus on meaning
.................. is the process of reading longer easier texts for an extended period of time without a breakdown of comprehension, feeling overwhelmed, or the need to take breaks.
Extensive reading
Intensive reading
How many stages in a reading lesson?
3
4
5
What is not the purpose of pre-reading?
Predict the content of the text
Activate necessary schemata
Create enthusiasm / Generate interest
Check comprehesion
What are some activities in post-reading?
Discussion
Retelling
Getting the main idea
Finding related news
In analytical reading, we can analyse how paragraphs are constructed or discuss issues of punctuation.
True
False
What is the time limit for post-reading vocabulary enquiry?
1-2 minutes
4-5 minutes
6-7 minutes
8-9 minutes
What are the purpose of post-reading?
Provide review and futher instruction
Summarize, reinforce, evaluate what was done
Create enthusiasm / Generate interest
Extend knowledge
According to whom Extensive reading is ‘the reading of lots of easy, enjoyable books’?
Macalister
Day and Bamford
Underhill
Chern and Dooley
What are the implications of silent reading?
Allow teacher monitor how students learn sounds
Allow students study the text at their own pace
Help students build foundational skills
Encourage students to focus on meaning
