ask them to read it. This serves two purposes:
to help students in their reading, by giving them some idea what to expect;
to increase their interest and so make them want to read the text [2, p. 69]. Way to introduce the text is just to give the simple sentence. For example: We are going to read about fossils. The text tells us how animals and plants become fossils. Another more interesting way of discussion, to start students thinking aout the topic: Do you know how the fossils are formed? Where do they come from? Have you ever seen the fossils? What was it like? . It is important to mention that the teacher should not say too much when introducing the text, because it may kill the students interest instead of arousing it [6, p.60-61] . reading the text the teacher may give the students some guiding questions. Guiding questions should be concerned with the general meaning or with the most important points of a text, and not focus on minor details; they should be fairly easy to answer and not too long (Doff 1988:61). For example:
- Very few animals become fossils. Why?
- What kind of fossils are found in caves?
- How do animals become fossils? [6, p.61] types of activities can be applied to prepare the student to reading the suggested text:. 1) Read the text and try to understand the general meaning of the story. (All the words which are highlighted are nonsense words). Country girl was walking along the snerd with a roggle of milk on her head. She began saying to herself, The money for which I will sell this milk will make me enough money to increase my trund of eggs to three hundred. These eggs will produce the same number of chickens, and I will be able to sell the chickens and for a large wunk of money. [6, p.60]
) Now look at the highlighted words again and try to guess what they might mean? (The actual words are: road, can, stock, sum) .. 1) Discuss in small groups or in pairs the picture of earthquake from the text or the title. Where it might be, what seems to have happend? p align="justify">) Do the tasks below before reading the text:
Write down at least five questions, which you hope the text will answer.
Try to imagine what text will tell you about: buildings, people, hills around the city, the land and the sea ...
Here are some words and phrases from the text. Can you guess how they are used in the text? (The sea-bed, the Richter scale, a huge wave...
