Reading skills

This complete lesson is for academic students (Cambridge, Oxford AQA, IELTS etc.), and it helps them to identify and understand the different reading skills they use. Too many students think that they simply need skimming and scanning for all reading texts, or they don’t understand what are intensive and extensive reading skills. This lesson shows them how to adapt to the text that they are reading and what exactly they are trying to gain from it. I break the class into groups and have a class-wide discussion on responses and attitudes to reading. I try and elicit as many responses as possible from the students rather than just have them reading the ppt’s. At the end there are 2 vocabulary lists of words connected to reading that the students can try and identify or come up with their own suggestions.