Ton Duc Thang University

Faculty of Foreign Languages

Department of Language Skills

Subject: Reading 1
Code: 001140
Lecturer: Do Thi My Han
 Agenda
01 Course 02 Course
objectives resources

03 Course 04 Course
syllabus requirements

05 Assessment
Overview
 Course objectives

On completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. Knowledge
- Get the academic vocabulary at pre- intermediate level about topics
related to food, education, sports, money, budgets, lifestyle, language,
festivals and celebrations
 Academic vs Non-academic
Vocabulary
Academic Non-academic
o More formal o Less formal
o Less common o More common

E.g. The patients reported that they got better after the first course of the
treatment.

E.g. The patients reported that their health improved after the first course
of the treatment.
 Academic vs Non-academic
Vocabulary

1) Marie Curie got Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.

=> Marie Curie was awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
2) The proposal to build a new highway has been turned down.
=> The proposal to build a new highway has been rejected
 Course objectives
On completion of the course, students should be able to:
1. Knowledge
- Get the academic vocabulary at pre- intermediate level about topics
related to food, education, sports, money, budgets, lifestyle, language,
festivals and celebrations
- Improve the background knowledge about those topics
 Course objectives
2. Skills
- Apply a variety of reading strategies
+
+

- Distinguish main ideas >< supporting details; cause >< result

- Predict and make inference
- Summarize a paragraph
- Apply the knowledge from reading in productive skills.
 Course objectives
2. Skills
- Apply a variety of reading sub-skills
+ previewing, skimming, scanning
+ Guess the meaning of the words through context and affixes.
- Distinguish main ideas >< supporting details; cause >< result
- Predict and make inference
- Summarize a paragraph
- Apply the knowledge from reading in productive skills.
 Course objectives

3. Critical thinking
- Critical thinking = the ability to think clearly + rationally
 Course objectives

3. Critical thinking
- Critical thinking = the ability to think clearly + rationally

- Apply critical thinking to read actively

+ Activate background knowledge and language knowledge (sentence
structures, text structures)
+ Understand the purposes & implications of the writers
 Course objectives

4. Attitudes
- Be aware of the importance of Reading skills in widening and
improving knowledge
- Be interested in Reading because it relates to other skills-
Speaking, Writing and Listening.
 Course Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the learned Reading skills
+ previewing + skimming
+ scanning + guessing meanings based
on the context and word/sentence structure

- Classify & Analyze sentence structures, text structures to understand

the reading passage

- Evaluate your own reading ability, select important and valuable

information from the texts to widen knowledge.
 Course Resources

 Required Textbook
[1]. Anderson, N.J.,[2013], Active Skills for
Reading 1, Third Edition, National
Geographic Learning, Boston
 Course Resources

 Recommended Textbooks
[2]. Burgmeier, A., [2012], Inside Reading 1 – The Academic
Word List in Context, Oxford University Press, New York
[3]. Geyte, E.V., [2013], Get ready for IELTS- Reading; A2 +
Pre-intermediate, Nhà xuất bảnTổng hợp TPHCM,
TPHCM.
 Course Resources

 Other references
[4]. Kirn, E., & Hartmann, P., [2007], Interactions 1 – Reading,
Silver Edition, Mc Graw Hill, New York.
[5]. Worcester, A., Bowerman, L., Williamson, E., [2011],
Building skills for the TOEFL iBT – Beginning, NXB Trẻ,
TP.HCM.
 Course Syllabus
WEEK CONTENTS
(3-period class)
1 Introduction + Unit 1
2 Unit 2
3 Unit 3
4 Review 1
5 Unit 4
6 Unit 5
7 Unit 6
8 Review 2
 Course Syllabus
WEEK CONTENTS
(3-period class)
9 Unit 7
10 Unit 8
11 Unit 9
12 Review 3
13 Unit 10
14 Unit 11
15 Unit 12 + Review 4
 Course Requirements

1. Class attendance: at least 80% of all class meetings

2. Preparation and participation:

• Active involvement in class activities
• Reading the texts required for each class in advance

3. Class assignments/ homework: done and submitted on time.

 Assessment Overview
Ongoing assessment 1: 10%
In-class test (written test) (from W3-W8)
Ongoing assessment 2: 20%
Attendance (2pts)
Class contribution (3 pts)
In-class test (written test) (5 pts) (from W8-W13)
Assessment 2: 20%
Mid-term test (written test)
Assessment 3: 50%
Final test (written test)