This is an activity to practice the “skimming” technique to get the main idea using the Unit 8 reading “It’s not so bad to be middle-aged.” You might want to try it after doing the intro pair activity.

passages-unit8-skimmimg-for-students.doc

passages-unit8-skimming-for-teachers

These are two handouts I’ve used in my class. One is a model outline based on the sample essay on death penalty and the other is for students to fill out.

Sample Outline

Essay Outline form

This is a handout that I made for my class explaining how to write a reference for online resources and Japanese resources (I am allowing my students to use one or two resources in Japanese in addition to English resources). This is in the MLA style. Please feel free to modify and let me know if you spot any errors.

Reference Writing

This is an adaptation of the essay on death penalty has been in the resource binder. I added more citations and listed the works cited. Although I used the MLA style for the list, I simply used serial numbers following the order of appearance in the text. If you want to follow the MLA style more closely, you might want to change them to cited page numbers.

One thing I was not able to demonstrate is the use of quotation.

sample-essay.doc

This is a handout I gave to my students to get them started on their research. Some students may not be familiar with the Obirin library database available on campus. It is good to demonstrate where these can be found on the screen.

Please feel free to modify this and share other useful resources you know!

The list of useful online resources

This is the vocabulary list for Level 3 Reading classes. This is also available in the shared folders and on elpweb.com for students.

Passages Vocabulary List

Here are the quizzes for the 2007 Autumn semester for Level 3 Reading classes.
Please choose at least three.

Quizzes
Unit 7 Quiz
Unit 8 Quiz
Unit 10 Quiz
Unit 11 Quiz

Answer Key
Level 3 Vocabulary and Reading Quizzes Answer Key

This is a supplementary activity for the reading in Unit 8: “It’s not so bad to be middle-aged.” It is intended to help students process some target words in the unit deeply by finding substitutes for selected words in the article.

Passage Unit 8 Vocab&Reading activity.doc

This is something I put together to help students read and write newspaper headlines for Passages Unit 7 Reading (p.65 “Nutty News”). But it can be used as a prep or review of Lesson B (Waht’s in the News). The headlines are taken from real rewspapers.

Understanding Newspaper headlines.doc

Level 3 Vocabulary and Reading Quizzes
There are three quizzes to be completed.

Please inform your students in advance when the quizzes will be given to them and that the vocabulary list as well as some self-study materials are available on elpweb.

The answer keys are available for teachers.

Level 3 � ReadingQuiz_Unit7.doc

Level 3 ReadingQuiz_Unit8.doc

Level 3 ReadingQuiz_Unit11.doc

ANSWER KEY
Level 3 VR quizzes Answer Key (Autumn).doc

Here’s the Passages vocab list useful for the vocabulary and reading quizzes as well as small group discussions (and group presentation!)

Passages Vocabulary List (Autumn).doc

In order to help students read their books on regular basis, I created a log sheet which I’m intending to have them fill out every week. Please feel free to modify it as you see fit.

reading log(2007).xls

Here are some handouts I made to help Level 3 students who are finding the textbook passages difficult to understand.

Unit 2: Home Schooling
1) Students read the first and the last sentence of each paragraph to get the main idea of each paragraph and get a big picture of the whole passage.
Home Schooling.doc

2) Comprehension questions for each paragraph
Home Schooling Qs.doc

Unit 3: Get yourself Lost
3) Students read only the first and last paragraph to get the main idea of the passage before reading the entire text.
Get yourself lost.doc

Here’s the list of target words in Unit 1 - 6 of Passages. Please distribute this to the students and inform them that

1) words on the vocab quizzes will be selected mostly from the Vocabulary and Reading sections of Unit 1, 2, 3, and 5.

2) the words on the list will help their speechs and group discussions.

Passages Vocabulary List (spring).pdfPassages Vocabulary List (spring).doc

Here’s the answer key for the four vocabulary and reading quizzes.

Level 3 VR quizzes Answer Key.doc

This is a sample handout that can be used to explain and introduce ER to your students. Please feel free to modify and use it in class before the students make their selections.

Reference:
Kane, E. (2006). Helping students choose a graded reader. The Language Teacher, 30, 21-22.

Introduction to Extensive Reading

Note: The first page of “The Giver” (ungraded reader), “The Runaway Jury” (Penguin Level 6), and “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (Penguin Level 5) are copied onto a single B4 sheet which can be used to check students’ levels. You can find this sample sheet in the red Level 3 resource binder on the bookshelf.

Please feel free to modify for your classes!

These materials are availabe in both the file on the Level 3 shelf and the ELP Shared Files/English I and II/Level 3/Extra Reading Materials.

Teachers debate English classes in primary school

Letters to the Editor on English education in primary schools

Level 3 Vocabulary and Reading Quizzes
There are THREE quizzes to be completed by week 10 (before the discussion test in Eigo IA/Listening&Speaking).

Please inform your students in advance when the quizzes will be given to them and that the vocabulary list as well as some self-study materials are available on elpweb.

The answer keys are available for teachers.

Quiz1

Quiz2