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How to Teach Reading A Why Teach Reading? 1. What is your response to the following questions? a What reasons are there for getting students to read texts in English? b What different elements of English can students study in a reading text? 2. Complete the following sentences. a When I learnt a foreign language reading was… b I think reading in the foreign language classroom is … c Students need to learn how to read… B What kind of reading should students do? Authentic materials appropriate for beginner/elementary students When reading in class, students should only be given texts which are authentic. C What reading skills should students acquire? Scanning (searching a text quickly for specific information) Skimming (reading a text quickly to get the general idea) Reading for detailed information Reading for pleasure D What are the principles behind the teaching of reading? 1. What would you expect to get out of a good reading text a as a teacher? b as a students? 2. What have the following concepts got to do with using reading texts? active skill appropiate tasks engagement exploitation prediction response to content E What do reading sequences look like? 1. Look at the reading text and complete the tasks which follow it. Your Sleep and You Miriam Kellaway Reports How much beauty sleep do you need? According to Philip Sedgewick, research fellow at the Sleep Disorders Clinic at the Department of Mental Health at St. George Hospital, most of us need roughly eight hours a night if we want to stay healthy. And we need to have a regular routine too. Problems for tired people: ●More chance of bugs（小毛病） and infections ● Shift workers (people who work at different times of day and night) get more infectious diseases than the rest of us。 ● More chance of stress ● More need for energy food like chocolate, coffee, etc. Students in the USA say tiredness causes overeating. In a survey of hospital nurses across the country, ninety percent of