Task 2

Skills building 2: reading for gist

Teaching objectives:

To develop reading skills by reading four diary entries.

To understand the mood of the writer.

Important and difficult points:

Reading for gist.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1  Lead-in 

Get students to read the instructions and know how to read for gist.

catch the gist or the main point

focus on descriptive words or expressions

Step 2  Reading

1  Read the four diary entries and fill in the form.

Entries    Main points     The words telling the writer’s mood

The first diary entry             

The second diary entry