Skills building 2: reading for the main point

Teaching aims:

1. Provide students chances to develop reading skills by reading four diary entries.

2. Help students to use reading skill to identify the main points of the four diary entries and tell some details in the letter asking for advice.

Teaching Important and difficult points:

Reading for the main point

Teaching method:

Reading to get the main points of the reading material

Teaching procedures:

Step One: Warming up

Get students to read the instructions and know how to read for the main point.

Catch the main point and

l         Focus on descriptive words or expressions

Step Two: Reading

1£® Read the four diary entries and fill in the form.

  Ask students to read four diary entries and underline the main points of each entry and circle the key words that show the mood of the writer. Ask students to finish the task in a group of four and each member of the group is in charge of one diary entry.