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Listening • Reading
• Video
Stages of Lesson Development Using Authentic
Texts
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Pre-Viewing / Reading / Listening Activities
Preparation activities sensitize the students
to what they are about to see / hear / read, and provide a purpose and
focus for their reading, listening or viewing / listening. The pre-litening
/ reading / viewing activity is done before even looking at/listening to
the text.
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activate knowledge of pertinent linguistic
and contextual background knowledge: semantic mapping, brainstorming
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activate appropriate cultural knowledge
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provide (co-create) a list of essential vocabulary
-- not too much!
Global Activities
Global activities encourage students to consider
the text in its entirety. Students need only skim a text (listen / view
once) to do these activities.
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identify type of text: an ad, a story, an
article, a weather report.
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order or sequence the information
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verify hypotheses from "pre-" activity
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identify main parts or ideas
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create / match titles or subtitles to segment/s
Specific Information Activities
Specific Information activities encourage
students to locate information, to focus their reading, listening or viewing,
and to access precision of understanding.
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complete grids and charts
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answer information questions: who, what,
where, when, how, why?
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select / match / transcribe / identify specific
information
Linguistic Activities
Linguistic activities allow students to use
texts to infer meaning (new grammar structures or vocabulary, for example)
from context. Students use what they already know as a basis to earn something
new. The linguistic activity uses the reading / audio / video text as a
point of departure, then goes beyond.
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focus on specific aspects of language as opposed
to content: vocabulary, structures, discourse and sociolinguistic features
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cloze-type activities, matching, open-ended
questions
Post-Activities
Post-activities relate the reading / listening
/ viewing to its original purpose using this input as a springboard for
other activities.
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discuss / debate issues raised in the text;
role play
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analyze point of view presented
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link to other skills: speaking, writing, further
listening and viewing
Adapted from materials
distributed by Chantal Thompson at the National Foreign Language Resource
Center, University of Hawai'i, Summer 1993