Dear students,
- name different levels of understanding a text;
- see the difference between 7 (!) reading subskills;
- analyze the potential of modern reading apps.
LET'S ANALYZE DIGITAL AIDS FOR READING, SHALL WE?
2. Level of English: What is the level of English (Starter, Beginner, Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate, Advanced)?
3. Presence of different exercises: Are there exercises corresponding to certain stages of working with the text to develop reading skills?
- Warm-ups,
- pre-reading ,
- while-reading,
- post-reading,
- using headlines,
- working with words,
- moving from text to speech,
- role plays,
- task-based activities,
- discussions and debates.
4. Presence of visual support: Is there visual support? How attractive is it? Does it not distract from reading?
5. Assessment: Are correct answers provided to check completed exercises? Are points awarded for correct answers? The first description was done for you.
Table 1. Analysis of Reading Applications
Rubrics |
Application and its link |
Type of texts |
Level of
English |
Presence of Different
Exercises |
Presence of Visual Support |
Assessment |
1 Example |
Popular science |
1,2,3,4,
5,6 |
lots of different
exercises, lesson plans |
text |
only the correct answers |
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2 |
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3 |
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4 |
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5 |
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6 |
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7 |
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8 |
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9 |
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10 |
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TASK 4. Find five more applications for developing reading skills online.
TASK 5. Highlight your favourite application for developing reading skills in the list above with the blue colour and be ready to present it during the workshop.
TASK 6. Explain in a couple of sentences which above-mentioned reading applications suit the chosen students best.
1. A group of 10-year-old kids (Beginner level).
2. A 25-year-old journalist (Beginner level) who wants to read international news.
3. A 15-year-old girl (Intermediate level) who is interested in social media.
4. A pair of students in their 40s who love cooking.
5. A 50-year-old lawyer (Pre-Intermediate level) who likes reading detectives.
Instructions for creating an answer file and posting it online:
3. Copy the table 1 and paste it into your MSW Document.
4. Fill in the table 1.
5. Compile a list in Task 4 and write your explanation in Task 6. Copy this information to your MSW Document.
6. Upload your MSW Document to your Google Drive like this:
Resources
1. https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/short-stories
2. https://www.gutenberg.org/
3. https://breakingnewsenglish.com/index.html
4. https://www.voanews.com/
5. https://americanenglish.state.gov/four-skills-resources
6. https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/american-teens-talk
7. http://storybird.com
8. https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/read-write
9. https://preply.com/en/learn/english/reading
10. https://linguapress.com/inter.htm
11. https://www.myenglishpages.com/english/reading.php
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