How can we promote Reading Comprehension? Can Oral Activities help? Can Cartoons stimulate discussion leading to deeper comprehension? Oral Activities and Cartoons can be very useful in the class situation. Reading Comprehension should not be taught by giving hundreds of texts for students to read and answer questions at home or in class. If students…
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More Oral Activities to promote Reading Comprehension
How can we make students talk in the English class? Should we use more cartoons to stimulate conversation and promote Reading Comprehension? I think we should. The question is: How? We spoke about violence in my last post. Since violence is, unfortunately, a very relevant subject, let’s continue. As I have already said, I believe that Oral…
Oral Activities and Reading Comprehension
Oral Activities, based on prior knowledge, will facilitate comprehension of a Reading Comprehension Passage. We will start with a cartoon. What is the appeal of cartoons? The cartoon will encourage students to talk. Capturing the attention of and engaging pupils during lessons is at times challenging and frustrating. Cartoons are an excellent teaching tool. Pupils…
Oral Activities leading to Reading and Writing
Today we will discuss Oral Activities leading to Reading and Writing. We will try to combine Oral Activities, Reading and Writing. We will start with Oral Activities. Look at the following cartoon. (Click on soldier 1) soldier 1 Describe the scene and the idea behind it. Do you approve? Is the cartoon realistic, authentic, exaggerated…
More Oral Activities leading to Reading and Writing
Today we will discuss more Oral Activities leading to Reading and Writing. We will again try to combine Oral Activities, Reading and Writing. We will start with Oral Activities. Look at the following cartoon. Click on the following link: Smoking Can you find a suitable title, saying or caption for this cartoon? Describe the cartoon…
Combining Oral, Reading and Writing Activities
Our aim is to combine different activities from different domains. All the activities have to center around the same theme and lead to the Reading Comprehension text. We will start with Oral Activities. Look at the following cartoon. Click on the following link: Beauty Can you find a suitable title, saying or caption for…
More Oral, Reading and Writing Activities
As I wrote in my last post, my aim is to combine different activities from different domains. All the activities have to center around the same theme and lead to the Reading Comprehension text. This time, our theme is: Pets. We will start with Oral Activities. Look at the following cartoon. Click on the following…
Beauty, Money and other trifles – Part 1
The general subject of the unit that we are starting today is Beauty, Money and other trifles. Let’s talk about it. Give examples of cosmetic products. Explain the purpose / use of each. Name various brands, firms. How do you decide what brand to choose? Why do so many girls / women buy cosmetics? Helpful…
Beauty, Money and other trifles – Part 2
In my last post I introduced the first aspect of the general subject of this unit: Beauty, Money and other trifles. Today we will discuss another aspect: Credit Cards. Let’s talk about it. What are credit cards? What are the advantages of credit cards? What are the risks involved? How could the risks be reduced?…