583. Reading provides authentic English


One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “Utilizing texts in the class is a useful aid for practicing naturalistic speaking. You read a text, aloud, maybe written by yourself, brief, not much time consuming when inventing it - I know you’re busy. You write an interesting text, like a story for example, adapting the language of the text to the grammar and vocabulary they are learning. You read it slow, emphasizing, stopping, clarifying some point with examples or drawing puppets on the board, or writing single words. Then you hand out photocopies of the text to the students. You and some of them read it aloud, trying to understand it. Then you ask them questions; catching questions. With humor. Also you can ask one student about what another one just said, so as to grasp their attention.” / Photo from: nikonians org. library_of_congress_reading

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