Lxt - Teaching reading

A. Discuss the following questions
Listening
1. What makes teaching listening interesting?
2. What makes teaching listening difficult?
3. Do you…………
a. skip listening section in the textbooks?
b. have any activities before having your students listen to the tape?
c. usually have your students read the script before, while, or after listening?
d. stop the tape every sentence?
e. ask your students to repeat after the tape?
f. prepare more listening tasks?
g. have a listening task in any in-class-tests?
III. Match the steps from a lesson plan for using a song with the stages: Before / While and After you read
Students brainstorm some words or expressions that might be in a song about a journey.
Students decide together whether they would buy the song or who they would buy it for.
Students follow the route on the map.
Students discuss the mood of the song.
Students act out a role-play as an extension task.



6. Students read the words and sing along.
7. Students look at jumbled lines from the song and predict the correct sequence.
B. Some post listening activities:
1. Discussing a related topic

2. Writing a summary / report

3. Completing a summary of the text ( with blanks )

4. Playing games.
Game 1:
Telling stories from the given words
( Unit 4 : On Campus )

Words: My sister/ chemistry course /lab / degree / dormitory

Sentence: My sister’s taking a chemistry course in a school in the USA. She spends a lot of time in the lab and she hopes to finish her degree next year. She has to live in the dormitory
Game 2: Word Association : Students pick up word cards and put the words in one sentence.
( Unit 14: International Organization)
Word cards:
Sentence: Flood- affected victims are suffering from food shortage and lack of clean water
Game 3: Running Dictation :

The readers of each group dictate what they read from the script to their group’s writer
C.Group work

I. What problems may we encounter when teaching listening tasks?


II. How can we solve such problems?
PROBLEMS  SOLUTIONS