Thanks in advance.

Have you tried �Gap-fill Football �? Ss work in groups. Give each group a set of word cards (key words you select from the reading passage). First, read the text to your Ss (leaving gaps for those words you selected beforehand) , they just sit back and listen. You might want to ask them a Q to check their general understanding of the text. At the second reading, groups try to fit the word cards in the gaps (I ask them to arrange the cards in a column on their desk). At the third reading, you pause and groups shout out the word. As a follow up I make them re-tell the story by using the word cards as clues. Once, I used a text for Past Simple and after this activity (Ss re-told the story and we wrote sentences on the board) we worked out the rules of the tense.

 

Another activity that goes with reading / listening: Select the text, give the Ss a version in which a certain nr of (for example) nouns, adjectives and verbs were deleted. Put these deleted words on a flipchart / write them on the board in 3 columns (one under the other, in the order they appear in the text). Have Ss read the text and when they come to a gap look at the 3 columns and select a word from there. I did this as a listening activity, too (Ss didn �t get the printed version, they just listened to the T reading the text and shouted the words).

 

Hugs,

gabitza