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Practical activities for the ‘during’ stage
The main purpose of this stage is to get students to
think and engage with the passage in an active way. If
they are engaged with the reading or listening they
will benefit more from it. Here are some practical
activities to help students interact more with the
reading/listening.
Ordering
Aim: To make a reading or listening text easier and more
understandable by providing a simple first activity to get
the gist.
Procedure:
• Prepare 4 to 6 simple pictures that describe the main
points of a story from a listening or reading text.
• Stick them on the board randomly, each with a number
or letter next them.
• Get the students to read/listen and put them in the
correct order.
• Several statements describing the story or the text can
be used instead of pictures if you don’t have time to
make pictures.
• You can also do a prediction activity with the pictures
or phrases (See page 10).
Jigsaw
Aim:
• To make reading/listening more interactive and to
integrate reading/listening with other skills
Procedure:
• Divide the reading/listening text into different parts and
design some comprehension for each part
• Divide students into small groups.
• Ask each group to read or listen to part of a
text/passage answering the comprehension questions
given in advance.
• Form new groups with students having read or listened
to different parts.
• Get students to share information to understand the
whole text/passage.
Skim or
scan
Aim: To practise listening/reading quickly to find specific
information (scan) or to get a general idea of what the
text is about (skim).
Tieng Anh uses these activities after the vocabulary work
and comprehension has been done. Try using them as a
simple first reading activity instead!
Procedure:
Skim:
• Write the statements that summarize ideas of the whole
passage or paragraph, and ask students to choose the
best/most appropriate one (See Units 10, TA 10;
Units1,4, 10 TA 11)
• Write headings then ask students to match to
paragraphs (See Unit 15, TA 11)
• Write several titles for a reading passage and ask
students to choose the best one (See Units 5, 13, TA 10).
Scan:
• Write questions that focus on different details and ask
the students to answer the questions. (Most ‘Answer the
questions’ exercises require scanning)
Prediction
Aim: To practise the skill of prediction to make students
better and more engaged readers/listeners
Procedure:
• Get the students to close their books.
• Read the story aloud to the class or let them listen to
the tape, but stop at appropriate moments and ask the
students questions about what was said or what might
happen next.
• Continue and see if they are right. This can be done as
a game with groups of students checking each other’s
answers.
• Repeat the procedure 3 – 6 times.
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