Extensive reading activities for teaching language
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Extensive reading activities for teaching language
(Cambridge handbooks for language teachers / general editor, Michael Swan)
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This lively collection of more than 100 classroom activities provides teachers with engaging ways to incorporate extensive reading into their classrooms. The creative and fun speaking, listening, role-play, reading, writing, and vocabulary activities, all linking reading to the rest of the curriculum, are suitable for students of all ages and levels. Teachers will find this handbook a valuable resource not just for reading courses, but for all types of language courses.
Table of Contents
- Part I . Activities for all classes: 1. Getting started
- 2. Introducing reading material
- 3. Motivating and supporting reading
- 4. Monitoring and evaluating
- Part II. Activities for developing oral fluency: 5. Reporting reading
- 6. Drama and role play
- 7. Having fun
- Part III. Activities for writing: 8. Reporting reading
- 9. Writing creatively
- Part IV. Activities for reading: 10. Developing awareness
- 11. Increasing reading rate
- Part V. Activities for vocabulary development: Part VI. Activities for looking at culture and society
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