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it might make a good pre-reading activity. It would also
work great as an extension activity to further improve
comprehension.
The first chart shows all of the information I found in the
passage about personality types. I then removed half of
the information, as you can see in Chart A. One student
would get this chart, while their partner would get Chart B,
not shown, and they would need to communicate with
each other to fill in the chart. Be sure to set up guidelines
beforehand, such as “No peeking at each other’s sheet”,
“Speak in full sentences”, and of course, “Practice
stressing content words, while unstressing function
words.”
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Strategy
#5
Info Gap
Millin (2015) recommends that this activity is completed in
the following five steps: 1) Assigning roles. For example,
student A, student B, and when necessary student C. 2)
Preparation time for students to practice their assigned
speaking task with others that have the same assignment.
This could be all the A’s together, and all the B’s.3) Next,
the students complete the Information gap. Here, they
take turns requesting and giving information.
Now, these activities might be where each student has
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