FACILITATING
READING TASKS

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Questions to disscuss
1.what are the difficulties you have when teaching reading? What are your sollutions to the problems?
2. What are difficulties you may have when teaching reading text in English 12? What sollutions to these?
Groups
Group 1: Thai Binh city: unit 1, 2
Group 2: Vu Thu: Unit 3, 4
Group 3: Kien Xuong: unit 5,6
Group 4: Dong Hung: Unit 7,8
Group 5: Hung Ha: Unit 9, 10
Group 6: Quynh Phu: unit 11,12
Group 7: Tien Hai: Unit 13, 14
Group 8: Thai Thuy: Unit 15, 16
Answers(1)
lack of
-knowledge of the topics
- of the background
- of the language
BEFORE-YOU-READ
Activate students’ previous knowledge
Unit 1 – Home Life: Talk about students’ own home life
Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity: Wedding Puzzle
Unit 13 – Seagames: Seagames Fact Quiz
Build students’ knowledge of the topic
Unit 2 - Cultural Diversity: What is cultural diversity?
Unit 3 – Ways of Socializing: What is socializing? What is verbal communication? What is non-verbal behavior?
Unit 14 – International Organizations: What are these organizations?
BEFORE-YOU-READ
Get students familiar with some key vocabulary
Unit 3 – Ways of socializing: Act out the verbs
Most of the units: Teach Task 1 (vocabulary) before reading
Motivate students to read
Give them a focus of reading: Read and locate the words (key vocab.)
Make them curious by asking questions  they can find the answers in the reading.

BEFORE-YOU-READ
Help students understand the tasks
Get students read the questions first
Help students with difficult expressions in the questions
Check to make sure students understand the questions
WHILE-YOU-READ
Reduce the load
Break the passage into smaller parts
Unit 7 - Economic Reforms: Before Doi Moi – Government’s actions – After Doi Moi
Vocabulary-in-context tasks: help students locate the words; provide examples; provide other contexts;etc.
Change the task: Unit 2 – Task 1  Matching; MCQ…

WHILE-YOU-READ
Help students to understand the text before get them to answer the questions
Timeline
Table/Chart
Map
Visuals
WHILE-YOU-READ
Check students’ understanding
Ask for evidence
Check on understanding of contents: Elaborate on the answers
Check on understanding of language contents
WHILE-YOU-READ
Develop skills
Skimming: Which sentence = most important
Vocab-in-context: How you arrive at the meaning is more important than the meaning itself
Scanning: Find the information  read around
Etc.
AFTER-YOU-READ
Adapt tasks
Life in the future: robots  travel/ work
Higher education: Talking about subjects  Summarize the reading contents
FINAL NOTES
Careful pre-teaching  better understanding
Understand the text first, answer questions later
Being able to relate to the reading contents  students more interested
Answering the questions correctly # comprehending