Gui thay Thao DL 3

Thai Nguyen VTTN Workshop
August 2007
Warmer – My Party
If you met Bill Gates at a party, which What, Why, When, Where, Who and How questions would you ask him?
You will be given a name and must answer questions as if you were that person.
You will change partners when the trainers says.
Quiz
Work in pairs and write your answers in the spaces provided
3.5 million
4.3 million
About 17 million
More than 5 times as big (5.1 times bigger)
About 17%
35%
1 year
At about 20% a year
To speak to foreigners, to access the internet, and to get good jobs.
Nearly 2 billion
Listening
Discuss.
Answers:
What do students need?
Students Need
Reading and Listening
Reading and Listening lessons
Divide a piece of flipchart paper in two.
Make a list of things our students may need to read or listen to now and in the future.
You have 8 minutes.
Examples:
Groups of people talking at the same time in meetings.
Technical textbooks in English
Films in English
Emails in English

Reading and Listening lessons
Feedback
Now give your list to another group.
Look at their list and mark each out of 5 for how well current teaching practices and textbooks are preparing our students for these.
Do you have any suggestions to improve this?
Reading and Listening lessons
Reading and listening are both receptive skills and have a lot in common.
They can both be divided into before, during and after sections.
In the before section, you should raise interest about the topic, and prepare students for what they are going to hear or read.
In the during section, there are many things a teacher can do to get students to think and engage with the passage in an active way.
In the after section, it is best to first focus on the meaning of the passage.
Next, we can choose to focus on the language in the passage.
Finally, the passage can be used as a springboard for productive work and there are countless possibilities!
Reading and Listening lessons
Before, During and After
Decide if the activities belong to the before, during or after section of the lesson.
Could they be used in a reading lesson or a listening lesson or both?
Work in pairs.
Reading and Listening lessons
Before, During and After
The students make predictions about what will happen next.
The students draw a picture related to the passage.
The students in groups write any words that they don’t understand on a piece of paper and give them to the teacher.
The students try to get the main idea of the passage.
The students try to find specific information from the passage.
The teacher gets the students to think about the topic.
The students ask questions that they think the topic will cover.
The students take notes.
The students put pictures in order related to the passage.
The teacher writes 5 – 10 words from the passage on the board and gets the students to predict what it will be about.
Reading and Listening lessons
Before, During and After
Work in groups.
Make a list of the types of things you can do at the Before, During, and After stages of the lesson.
Some groups will present their ideas.
Reading and Listening lessons
Warmer - Maxims
Make a list of 5 common hobbies.
Write maxims about reading and listening lessons using the form:
A good reading/listening lesson is like………. because…….
A good reading lesson is like walking because your students should go slow enough to enjoy the experience.
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions
We use questions a lot in the English language classroom because…………

Reading and Listening lessons
Questions (statements)
Teachers are the experts in their own classrooms.
Adapting the course book is interesting and beneficial for the students.
Writing your own questions is a useful way to do this.
We will now look more at different types of questions and how to use them.
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions (statements)
Questions types
What types of questions can you see in the reading about Marie Curie? What other question types are there? Make a list.


Reading and Listening lessons
Questions (statements)
Questions types
Questions survey
We are now going to look at some ways to use questions in lessons. For each we will:
answer the questions
say where in the lesson we would use the questions
discuss any advantages or disadvantages to using the question type
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions (statements)
Questions types
Questions survey
Background (fold over) Qs
Answers: 1-b, 2-a, 3-d, 4-e, 5-c
When? Before we read
Why? To provide background knowledge for the reading and to raise interest.
Disadvantages: Making the fold over takes time – (leave that out if you want to)
Advantages: Different, fun, prepares the students to read.
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions to answers
Answers:
When was Marie Currie born?
What was her husband’s name?
What was she the first woman to do?
What was her real joy?
What did she do in 1914?
When? After
Advantages: The students have to think when they do this.
Disadvantages: Difficult for some students/classes.
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions to answers
Students write the questions
Get in groups and write 5 questions about the text below.
You have 5 minutes.
When you have finished you will give your questions to another group and they will answer them.
When? After
Advantages: Student-centred with lots of opportunity to learn.
Disadvantages: Can be difficult for some students.
NB: It doesn’t matter if some mistakes are made!

Reading and Listening lessons
Questions to answers
The aim of the text
Answer: c
When? To be given before you read as a reason to read.
Advantages: A simple reason to read the text.
Disadvantages: ?
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions to answers
Gap questions
Answers:
Scientific training
Scientific career
Private tutor
Mathematics
One year
When? After
Advantages: Something different and interesting.
Disadvantages: ?
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions to answers
Gap questions
Fill in a table
Reading and Listening lessons
Questions to answers
Gap questions
Fill in a table
When: After
Advantages: An easier way for students to take in the information.
Disadvantages: ?
A flow chart
Reading and Listening lessons
Reading and Listening lessons
Reading for Gist - Skim reading
Answer: b
When: Give out before the students read to give them a reason to read.
Advantages: Simple, easy and effective.
Disadvantages: ?
Reading and Listening lessons
Design your own questions
Each group will receive a text.
Write new questions for the text.
You must include at least 3 different types of questions.
You have 25 minutes to write design your questions.
You will give your text and questions to another group
You will read another groups text and do their questions and give a mark out of 5 for each of the following:
The questions are clear
Interesting and appropriate questions were chosen
The students have to think to do them
Reading and Listening lessons
Design your own questions
Each group will receive a text.
Write new questions for the text.
You must include at least 3 different types of questions.
You have 25 minutes to write design your questions.
You will give your text and questions to another group
You will read another groups text and do their questions and give a mark out of 5 for each of the following:
The questions are clear
Interesting and appropriate questions were chosen
The students have to think to do them
Are you an X person or a Y person? (Shouting Match)
Are you a _____ person or a ______ person? Why?
(Morning/evening)
Stand in a line a least 5 metres apart.
Take turns to ask your partner from the list given to you.
There is often background noise like this in real life!
Example Reading Lesson
Look at the reading lesson from p22-25 of the new Tieng Anh 11 and answer the questions on the worksheet.
We will now demonstrate/look at lots of different options for things to do in the Before, During and After stages of this lesson.
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading (2)
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading (3)
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading (4)
1. My most embarrassing experience happened a few years ago, when I was a grade 9 student.
2. My biggest dream was a red hat.
3. My father gave me some money so that I could buy the hat for myself.
4. I decided not to make a fuss and to take my money back from the schoolboy’s bag.
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading (5)
A
B
C
B
A
A
C
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading
During Reading (1)
Skimming and scanning
Read the text quickly (2 minutes).
How many people in the story?
Read it again and say what the main idea is in 2 sentences (4 minutes).
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading
During Reading (2)
Listen to the teacher and:
Guess what happens next
Answer the teachers questions
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading
During Reading (3)
Work in groups.
While you read underline words you don’t understand.
Write them on a piece of paper and give them to the teacher.
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading
During Reading (5)
Listen to the teacher read the text and read it in the book at the same time.
When there is a difference, shout, “Stop!” and say what the difference is.
Example Reading Lesson
Before Reading
During Reading
After Reading (1)
Example Reading Lesson
After Reading (2)
Think of your own embarrassing moment (invent one if you like).
Make some notes under the following categories:
When it happened, the background to the event.
An outline of the event.
How they felt.
What the look-term effect of the even was (if any)
Tell your story to a partner – the partner says whether they think it is true or not.
(Optional) – Get each student to remember the story they heard and tell another.
Write your story (for homework).

Example Reading Lesson
After Reading (3)
A dialogue between the girl and a policeman
Policeman: Hello young girl I think you have stolen some money.
Girl: Err. Well…….
Example Reading Lesson
After Reading (4)
Example Reading Lesson
After Reading (5)
Who wears this hat?
Age?
Job?
Family and friends?
Some adjectives to describe them?
Hobbies?
Hopes for the future?
Fears?
One special secret they have?

Example Reading Lesson
After Reading
Your ideas
In groups think of some more ideas for the Before, During and After stages of this lesson.
Think of at least one more idea for each.
Present your ideas to the rest of the training group.
Reading - Beyond Tieng Anh
When the South American kidnappers of botanist Tom Hart Dyke told him he was to be executed in five hours, he……….
Reading - Beyond Tieng Anh
Read the text quickly.
Were your ideas correct?
What did he actually do?
Did his action lead to success?
You have four minutes to read.
Reading - Beyond Tieng Anh
Find the following words and phrases in the text and underline them:
Botanist
Bankruptcy
Guerrillas
Castle
Facing closure
The globe

Blow your head off
A trick
Armadillo
Trekking
Captors
Horrible incident

Which don’t you understand?
Reading - Beyond Tieng Anh
Questions
In pairs write 3 questions about the text.
Read out your questions for another group to answer.


Role-play.
In pairs, write 10 questions to ask the kidnapper.

Stop the bus!
Work in groups.
You will be given a category of words to write and told how many to write.
When you have the words, you must shout, “Stop the bus!” to win.


Warm up
Stop the bus!
Warm up
7 words with one syllable the category is animals.
6 words - 2 syllables - countries
4 words - 3 syllables, but the stress must be on the first syllable
3 words - 3 syllables - stress on second syllable
2 words - 3 syllables - stress on the third syllable
Example Listening Lesson 1
Look at the listening lesson on p160 of the new Tieng Anh 10 class book.
What do the students have to do at the Before, During and After stages?
What can you say about each exercise?
Example Listening Lesson 1
Before
‘Wh’ questions about a picture of the Statue of Liberty.
Aim: To raise interest and introduce some difficult vocabulary items (crown, tablet, torch, robe etc…..)
Example Listening Lesson 1
During (task 1)
Multiple choice questions - listening for specific information (scanning).
Aim: To train the students to listen for specific information (and not worry about understanding everything).
Before
Example Listening Lesson 1
During (task 1)
Multiple choice questions - listening for specific information (scanning).
Aim: To train the students to listen for specific information (and not worry about understanding everything).
Before
During (task 2)
Fill in a table - listening for specific information (scanning).
Aim: To train the students to listen for specific information (and not worry about understanding everything).
Example Listening Lesson 1
During
Before
After
Talking about the statue using the information from the table.
Aim: To get the students to use the vocabulary and grammar patterns they heard in the listening.
Example Listening Lesson 1
Before Listening (2)
Example Listening Lesson 1
Before Listening (4)
tablet
crown
robe
concrete base
pedestal
torch
Secret message: I am first
Example Listening Lesson 1
Before Listening
During Listening (2)
The statue of Liberty, one of America’s most famous images, is on an island in New York Harbour.
It is a symbol of freedom.
Its formal name is Liberty Enlightening the World.
It was a gift to (the) American people from the French to show the friendship between the two nations.
Example Listening Lesson 1
Before Listening
During Listening (3)
The statue of Liberty, one of America’s most famous images, is on an island in New York Harbour. It is a symbol of freedom. Its formal name is Liberty Enlightening the World.
It was a gift to (the) American people from the French to show the friendship between the two nations. This is the statue of a woman who is wearing a loose robe and a crown on her head. Her right hand holds a burning torch, and her left hand holds a tablet with the date July 4, 1776 on it. The statue weighs 205 tons and is 46 m high. It stands on a stone and concrete base. The base and pedestal increase the height of the monument to 93 m. The outside is made of copper. Inside, it has an iron frame. The statue was completed in 1884 in France, and then transported to America in 1886. Tourists can visit the statue from 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Christmas Day.
Example Listening Lesson 1
Before Listening
During Listening
After Listening (1)
Example Listening Lesson 1
Before Listening
During Listening
After Listening (5)
This is a statue of a woman who is wearing a loose robe and a crown on her head.
New York, which is on the east coast of America, is an exciting city.
Work in Groups
Before:
Questions about what a beauty queen should and shouldn’t do – raise interest
During:
Tick the things that Lisa does – listening for specific information.
Say how often Lisa does things – listening for specific information (focus on frequency phrases)
After:
Talking in groups about what you do to stay healthy and keep fit – speaking fluency.
Killing Me Softly
(1 – Gapped text)
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing Me Softly
(2 – Dictation)
I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
And listen for a while
And there he was this young boy
Stranger to my eyes
Killing Me Softly
(3 – Mark the main stresses in each line)
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing Me Softly
(4 – Jumbled word order)
I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he read my letters
And read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on
Killing Me Softly
(5 – Jumbled sentence order)
It’s the same as the before!
After listening
Work in groups.
What could you do as an ‘after listening’ activity?
Think of one or two ideas
Be ready to present your ideas to the whole group.
After listening – some extra ideas
Make question cards about the topic of love and groups discuss them.
The students are the woman and write a note to the man.
The students are the man and write a note/letter to the woman.
Students prepare speeches about love.
Students write/say advice to the woman.
The students write a set of guidelines for falling in love.
Students role-play or write a dialogue of the meeting of the two.
Students role-play or write a conversation between the woman her psychologist (she is crazily in love).

Listening (and speaking) DVD
Listening (and speaking) DVD