Macmillan Teacher Training

Patrick Hafenstein Canton September 2011

Making Things Better for You!

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Making Things Better for You!

Examinerof 4 Exams

Authorof 5 books

Trained11,000+

teachers in11 countries

Helped100,000+

students getan o/s

Masters

Who’s this?

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Hot Spot

Capture the imagination of younger teenagers

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Reading Agenda

1.Essential Reading Philosophy

2.Before, While, After Reading Activities

3.Top Down vs. Bottom Up

4.Intensive vs. Extensive

5.Reading Comprehension vs. Skills & Strategies

6.Dictionary Skills

Which is the most decisive factor in determining the success of a reading class?

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• The Topics

• The Exercises

• The Teacher

• The Students

• Test Practice

• The Coursebook Design

Interesting topics…

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Provide new

information (innate curiosity)

Provoke an emotional response (develop

imagination)

Are relevant to students’ lives

(age appropriate)

How do you teach reading?

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Intensive vs.

Extensive

Skills & Strategies vs. Comprehension

Top Down vs. Bottom Up

Before, During & After Reading Activities

Pre-Reading

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Open up to page 96 &

start reading

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1. Activating Schema

1.Brainstorming

2.Discussion Questions

3.Input

4.Drawings

5.Freewriting

6.Background info as quizzes.

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3. Text Prediction

• Key Word Guess

• Key Word Story

1. School

2. Shoes/slippers

3. Lesson/bow/ questions

While Reading

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Read and Answer the Questions

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During Reading Exercises

Step 1: Shared Reading

Key Words Identifying

• Sports Equipment –clap

• Permission - stomp

• Obligation - click

Key Word Stop

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During Reading Exercises

Step 2: Guided Reading

Speedy Turn-taking

Emotional Reading

After Reading

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Check your answers with your partner

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After Reading Exercises

Vocabulary Development

Grammar in Context

Integrated Speaking/

Writing

Task-based Activities/

Project Work

Top Down vs. Bottom Up

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What’s the difference?

Top DownActivating all prior knowledge about topic & text type, then skimming to get a rough idea of content & structure.

Bottom UpPaying close attention to the language, especially syntax and cohesion to understand difficult text.

Top Down vs. Bottom Up

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Top Down vs. Bottom Up

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Which process comes first?

Top Down

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Step 1: What comes next?

Step 2: Summarising

Step 3: Underline the unfamiliar words

Step 4: What questions is the text trying to answer?

Step 5: Check questions have been answered

Step 6: Bottom up processing

Bottom Up Processing

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The Nation Approach

• Identify what the cohesive elements refer to.

• Remove coordinating conjunctions & rewrite as 2 sentences.

• Find nouns & remove any items following them which are part of the same noun group.

• Find verbs & decide who/what does what

• Find participle, infinitive or prepositional clauses & decide who/what does what

Intensive vs. Extensive

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What’s the difference?

ExtensiveReading large quantities of material or long texts for global or general understanding with the intention of gaining pleasure from the text.

IntensiveReading a text in detail with the intent to understand all structures, lexis and text organisation and at the same time developing reading skills.

Extensive vs. Intensive Reading

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When (second languagelearners)read for pleasure,

they can continue toimprove in their second

language without classes, without teachers, without

study & even without people to converse with.

(Krashen 1993 p.84)

Benefits of Extensive Reading…

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Pupils developed a wideractive & passive vocabulary.

They used more varied sentencestructure & were better at

spotting & correcting grammaticalmistakes in their writing &speaking. They showed an

overall improvement in writingskills & increased confidence &

fluency in speaking. (Davis1995 p.330)

Benefits of Extensive Reading…

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Reading for Pleasure

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As a teacher, your role is to MOTIVATE students to read

and this is the most challenging part of Extensive Reading

Although there are many benefits of

reading, that does not mean students

will read.

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7 Stories of Mystery & HorrorA priceless Egyptian statuette is stolenA Rich Man & A Poor ManThis story has been made into many plays, films & moviesA Romance on a Rainy Day

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B

C

D

Reading Comprehension vs. Reading Skills &

Strategies

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What’s the difference?

Reading ComprehensionTo check learners’ understanding of a text typically through multiple choice questions, true/false statements, wh-questions, gap fills, etc.

Reading Skills & Strategies

Training students to be more effective readers by teaching them to infer meaning, guess vocab from context, distinguishing key points, etc.

Comprehension vs. Skills & Strategies

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Hot Spot

Capture the imagination of younger teenagers

Overview• ‘Inbetweenies’ (10 > 14)• 42 core teaching hours per level• Communicative yet traditional approach• Provides a focus on UK• Culturally rich content• Theme based modules (7) (3x2 ~ double pp), plus

Integrated skills, Review, Extra!• Transparent grammar syllabus• Personalisation• Practice

USP’s

• Learner autonomy ~ ‘check your English’• Pronunciation help ~ various activities• Integrated skills with cross-cultural focus• ‘Groovy/funky’ characters ~

interest/remember• Learning diaries ~ AB• Grammar explanations/wordlists (SB)• Mixed ability/Dyslexia tips (TB)

Motivation

• Fun approach with lots of humour

• Engaging characters to capture the interest of teenagers

Grammar

• Grammar is practised through fun tasks in the context of the lesson

• Additional grammar practice in an illustrated reference section at the back of the SB

Structure

• Clear structure and signposting to help guide teachers

Reading practice

Extra reading practice is offered at the higher levels in the form of an excerpt from a famous story

Personalisation

• Communicative practice with lots of controlled personalised practice to build confidence for students

Skills integration

• The integrated skills lesson has a cross-cultural focus

Fun!

• Songs and raps found in every unit

• Lyrics at the back of the Student’s Book

• Lower levels created specifically

• Higher levels > known

Teacher’s Book

• Full colour and interleaved with the Student’s Book pages

• Strong teacher training element with methodology tips throughout

• Dyslexia tips to help students with dyslexia and learning difficulties

Teacher’s Book

• Extra ideas for teaching mixed-ability classes

• Includes photocopiable worksheets for pair and group work

• Editable Test CD-ROM included with every Teacher’s Book

Other components

Activity Book includes:• A complete story• Extension and extra practice activities for mixed ability

classes• Learning Diary

Student’s Book includes:• CD-ROM with additional practice and interactive games

Class audio

Teacher’s Website:www.macmillanenglish.com/HotSpot