A teaching resource for adult ESL: NPS - Better choices, Better health Taking medicines can help improve your health. However, there are potential risks involved in using all medicines, including prescription, over-the-counter, traditional and herbal medicines. These risks can be higher for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities, particularly those with low English language proficiency and literacy levels. NPS MedicineWise works with the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) and other organisations to create resources that provide information for CALD communities on the quality use of medicines. Read translated information in the languages below for tips on how to use medicines safely and reduce the risk of experiencing problems with your medicines. Resources developed in partnership with the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) and other partners. Medicines resources for organisations working with CALD communities Queries or questions?
Macmillan Readers Level Test Macmillan Readers Level Test What reading level are you? Use the Macmillan Readers level test to help find your reading level. Choose the right answer to each question and use each image as a clue. Welcome to the Macmillan Readers Level Test. Are you ready to begin? Start Back to Macmillan Readers Back to the eBook store The author and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce their material: Brand X, Comstock Images, Corbis, Getty Images, Imagesource, Macmillan Publishers, Photodisc, Purestock, Punchstock, Thinkstock, Thinkstock/ Kagnaz / George Tsartsianidis / Ken Tannenbaum Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I’m going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things. And I am biased, obviously and enormously: I’m an author, often an author of fiction. So I’m biased as a writer. And I’m here giving this talk tonight, under the auspices of the Reading Agency: a charity whose mission is to give everyone an equal chance in life by helping people become confident and enthusiastic readers. And it’s that change, and that act of reading that I’m here to talk about tonight. It’s not one to one: you can’t say that a literate society has no criminality.
How to use newspaper articles in language class How should teachers use 'authentic' texts in class? Author, trainer and teacher Rachael Roberts gives valuable advice on the example of newspapers. She will also be delivering a live-streamed presentation Opens in a new tab or window. from Belfast on writing effective classroom materials, 11 March 2014. Back in 1981, Vivian Cook Opens in a new tab or window. wrote: ‘One of the words that has been creeping into English teaching in the past few years is 'authentic'. Teachers and students are naturally attracted to authentic texts (by which I mean any text which has not been produced for the purpose of language learning). But, as Cook goes on to say, we also need to consider just how helpful the authentic text we choose actually is for our students. First challenge: Text organisation For example, how clearly is the text organised? Second challenge: Headlines Newspaper headlines can also be hard to decipher. It's Bradley Zoo-per! Understanding the genre Fourth challenge: Idioms
Making reading communicative And these reactions are from my adult students. My young learners' reactions may be even more extreme. "I can read at home, I come to lessons to speak!" more than one of my students has told me. Can reading be communicative? Can reading be communicative? Strategies I use for communicative reading One of the things to bear in mind when lesson planning is that classroom reading is not the same as real reading. Pre-reading tasks Pre-reading tasks often aim to raise the readers' knowledge of what they are about to read (their schematic knowledge) as this knowledge will help them to understand the text. Tell your partner what you know about the topic Do a quiz in pairs to find out what you know about the topic Look at some pictures related to the topic Skimming the first paragraph for gist and then predicting. When reading in our L1 we are constantly using our schematic and linguistic knowledge to predict content (both related to the topic and the language itself).
6 Excellent Free Sites to Practise Reading Comprehension It’s been too long since I’ve written about improving reading skills. Last time I posted about sites to help you practise reading comprehension was in May last year. Way too long. The truth is that doing reading comprehension activities in class takes time, especially if we are talking about long texts with an amount of difficulty, and very often this is one of the tasks we give students as homework. On the other hand, I am one of those teachers who think reading aloud in class is a good exercise. Reading aloud fluently not only helps to improve the reading ability, but also oral expression.It gives students a chance to focus only on fluency, pronunciation and intonation as they don’t need to worry about grammatical accuracy.It gives teachers a nice opportunity to correct pronunciation mistakes.It helps students enhance comprehension as pauses should be made in the correct places.Reading aloud is especially good for students who don’t feel very confident speaking English in public. 1.
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