Г. А. Багаутдинова И. И. Лукина английский язык для аспирантов и соискателей

Приложение 5

A commonly-used blueprint in designing reading materials

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  Give the title (and, if relevant, author, date and source). Ask students to write down three important factors related to the topic. Brief whole-class discussion.
  
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  Give the title ... Students to write down 10 words related to the topic. Collect them on the board; elicit meanings and pronunciation.
  
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  Give the title ... Ask learners to predict how the text begins. Then display the first two sentences on the board.
  
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  Give the title ... Display a set of statements (4 or 5) based on the overall message of the text. Learners to mark them true/false or yes/no, according to their prediction of what the author will say.
  
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  Select 10 key words from the text, and give 12 Spanish in random order (inc. 10 translations). Matching exercise.
  
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  Learners to complete:
  

  Things I know about the topic	Things I don’t know	Things I'm not sure about
  1.	1.	1.
  2.	2.	2.
  3.	3.	3.

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  Scanning for key facts, e.g. people, dates, events.
  
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  Learners to write questions they expect the text to provide answers to.
  
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  Use visuals (eg diagrams, maps, photographs) related to the topic, to arouse motivation and elicit key vocabulary items.
  

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   While-reading
   

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  Comprehension questions (WH, T/F, М/С, yes/no) – pre-text, in-text, post-text.
  
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  Information transfer (i.e. completing illustrations, maps, etc with information from the text).
  
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  Completing a gapped set of notes; writing an original set of notes.
  
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  Summary-writing; completing a gapped summary, reorganizing a summary presented as a jumbled set of sentences, making accurate an inaccurate summary, creating an original summary.
  
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  Presenting the text as a diagrammatic display:
  

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  Solving a problem with the aid of information from the text.
  
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  Expressing a personal view on the topic.
  
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  A debate/class discussion on the topic.
  
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  Writing that responds to the views expressed in the text (e.g. a letter to the newspaper/government/United Nations).
  
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  Personalizing the topic, e.g. in the form of a diary entry.