How to teach English

How to teach English

1. Reading levels

   • Level of the text
   • Intensive or extensive
   • read authentic texts

2. Reading skills

   • Scan the text
     • do not have to read every word and line
   • Skim a text
     • get a general idea of what it is about
   • Reading for detailed comprehension
     • looking for detailed information or picking out examples of language use

3. Reading Principles

   • Encourage students to read
   • Students need to engaged with what they are reading
   • Encourage students to respond
   • Prediction
   • Match the task to the topic when using intensive reading texts
   • Exploit reading texts to the full

4. Reading Sequences

   • Sunscreen (pre-intermediate)
     • read the text and identify
   • campaigns (intermediate)
     • start predicting what they are going to read
     • discuss answers in pairs before teacher solicits answers
   • webquest (intermediate to advanced)
     • Students visit various websites in order to find information

5. Encouraging students to read extensively

   • Library -collections of books
   • Choice - able to choose what they read
   • Feedback- comments
   • Time -give students time for reading