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Introducing Electronic Newspapers in the EFL Reading Classroom

Introducing Electronic Newspapers in the EFL Reading Classroom. By Constanza Lermanda G. Goals of the lesson: Students will:. Improve their readin skills . Enrich their vocabulary . Gain some cultural knowledge . Be up- to -date with current situations in the world.

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Introducing Electronic Newspapers in the EFL Reading Classroom

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  1. IntroducingElectronicNewspapers in the EFL Reading Classroom By Constanza Lermanda G.

  2. Goals of the lesson:Students will: Improvetheirreadinskills. Enrichtheirvocabulary. Gainsome cultural knowledge. Be up-to-date withcurrentsituations in theworld.

  3. Warm Up (10 minutes) • Discuss techniques for "how to read the newspaper," and introduce the elements of the newspaper, such as headlines, pictures, topic sentences, body, etc. • Next, talk about the definitions and importance of "skimming" and "scanning." • Use today’s local newspaper to demonstrate these two techniques. Ask the students when and why they need to use these techniques (have students brainstorm). Skimming: Quickly running one's eyes across a whole text to get the gist. It gives readers the advantage of being able to predicate the purpose of the passage, the main topic. Scanning: Quickly searching for some particular pieces of information in a text. Scanning exercises may ask students to look for names, dates, to find a definition of a key concept, or to list a certain number of supporting details. The purpose of scanning is to extract specific information without reading through the whole text.

  4. CommunicativeActivity (15 minutes) Introduce and show the web site, "Online Newspapers—thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips“ (http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/index.htm). After making sure every student's computer is at the web site, ask students to locate different topic areas -- front page, weather, sports, classified, entertainment, etc. Next, go back to the news section; assign well-known headline international news and ask students to find information about the news by looking through different countries/newspapers. Then ask students to select one article, use skimming and scanning techniques, and summarize the article. Finally, select several students to report their summaries and then compare theirs with other students' summaries.

  5. Focus Practice Activity I: Pass out a selected e-paper article to each pair of students. Students will discover that the first sentence from each paragraph has been deleted. Ask students to put the sentences back into the correct places in the text. When finished, have each pair of students discuss their answers with another pair. Activity II: Give each pair of students another article -- this time jumble the paragraphs for the students to re-order. Activity III: Give each pair a third article. Highlight some words in the text and ask students to deduce their meanings from the context. 25 minutes

  6. Assessment

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  8. Original lesson plan by Ying-Ying Chuang . Lesson Plan taken from: http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Foreign_Language/English_Second_Language/ESL0204.html

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