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Tuesday, 1 September 2015

Designing a WWW reading task

Source : Sam Shepherd , teachingenglish.org.uk 





The world wide web offers a myriad of opportunities for authentic English reading texts.

Any good teacher can turn a reasonable authentic reading text into a useful and fulfilling activity, so why not take the same skills you might use with a newspaper article and turn them to good use, bearing in mind various aspects of the newer medium that are peculiar to it. This article gives advice on designing tasks based on the internet.
  • Search Tasks
  • Controlled Site Tasks
  • Criteria for selecting websites
  • Keying in
  • Conclusion