ANALYSIS OF THE VIDEO OF HOW TO

TEACH READING SKILLS LESSON

GROUP 6
1. What is the topic of the lesson?
 The amazing empire of the Inca culture.
2. What does the teacher teach?
 She teaches how to do a reading lesson.
 3. How does she carry out the lesson?

• Warm-up: set up the theme of the lesson with a communicative activity.

• Predicting text
• Pre-reading:
1. Tell students the purposes of this activity.
2. Facilitate easier processing of the task by teaching key lexis.
• Gist reading: set a reading task that encourages the processing of broad themes
within a text
• Intensive reading: set a comprehension task that requires decoding of specific
language in a text EN
• Post-reading: set up a fluency-based activity linked to the theme(s) of the text to
allow for a personal response to the text and, potentially, language from the text to be
used productively
 4. How many stages does she instruct?
• Pre-stage:
 Warm-up
 Lead-in
• While stage: Strategy practice
 The learners apply the strategies:
– Do the task first individually.
– Compare answers in pairs
– Focus on top-down and then bottom-up activities
 Getting the title
 Arrange sentences in the right column.
• Post-stage: set up a fluency-based activity linked to the theme(s) of the text to allow for a
personal response to the text and, potentially, language from the text to be used productively.
(connecting)
• Follow up:
 Using the text:
– Teacher models the forthcoming task by stating her own reaction to the
text.
– give students space to express their own opinion about the text
– Teacher makes an explicit link between opinion and the task.
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5. How does she deal with comprehension questions?
 6. What about the languages she uses?
She uses the language quite easy to understand and relates a lot to the topic of the lesson.

7. What can we learn from her class?

- After giving instruction, we should ask students some questions to make sure they
understand the questions clearly.
- Giving meaningful contexts for students to get the new words.
- Peer activities should be encouraged.
- Create many interesting activities for students to join.

8. How do we adjust her teaching performance?

- Using short but clear meaning orders.
- Making some examples for students to follow.
- Connecting the lesson more with the learners’ lives.
- Introducing the purpose of each stage before requiring students to do.
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