Description: Practice reading strategies on the topic of innovation.
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Level: B1->C1
Target audience: all college level students, and computer science/ engineering/ business students in particular
General goals/objectives: general reading comprehension, review of reading strategies
Specific goals/objectives: topic sentences and main ideas, connectors, review of suffixes, innovation vocabulary
Materials needed for activity: (check the following)
X internet access X projector _ speakers _ printout X BYOD (Bring Your Own Device – smartphone, tablet)
_ other: ______________
Time: 60 minutes
Overview: Before:Review prefixes and suffixes ( prefixes and suffixes)
Activity 1 – reading with online questions at home, with (Activity 2) a class follow-up reviewing the vocabulary and finding topic sentences
Activity 1 (with explanations)
Just by looking at the title, Has the Innovation Cup Run Dry?, ask students to predict what they think the text will be about and how the authors will answer this question. Students read
Has The Innovation Cup Run Dry? By Moshe Y. Vardi. Communications of the ACM, 56 (9), P. 5
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/9/167150-has-the-innovation-cup-run-dry/fulltext
and answer questions (on Moodle for immediate feedback) Has the Innovation Cup Run Dry?
(will be uploaded to the project site)
Activity 2
Review vocabulary from the text and the function of the suffix -> complete this table https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nZ4MxJ6SzVWUJDZrbaquDvgVzn6cUMBqd1RXxckYcBk/edit?usp=sharing
Students share information that they found on disruptive technologies
Find the topic sentence in each paragraph – always the first? Exceptions?
Supplementary Materials
Topic sentences: http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/topic.html
Generic questions on a text: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/learning/pdf/2013/13-1553_K12_DocAnalysis_LearnNet_RP3-f.pdf
Related LOs
- The Future of Innovation
- Start-up Nation interview
- Surfing Toward the Future
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Reception/ Reading |
Reading for information and argument | Can obtain information, ideas and opinions from highly specialized sources within his/her field (B2+) |
| Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular stances or viewpoints (B2) |
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