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Reading Text Development
B1 Level Considerations
B1 Can Do’s• Can understand the main points of clear standard input
on familiar matters (global scale)
• Can locate and understand purpose, main ideas and some detail in some authentic 2-3 paragraph texts in moderately demanding contexts of language use.
• Can find specific information in prose texts.
• Often requires rereading and clarification
• Can guess meaning of unknown word, phrase, idiom from context
B1 - Kinds of Texts • Up to 5-10 paragraphs
• Legible, easy to read
• Clear, explicit instructions with some visual cues
• Pictures accompany text
• Clear organizational structure (news articles, stories, reports, opinion essays)
• Topics are often familiar
Help students to• Activate background knowledge (text type and topic)
• Build vocabulary knowledge
• information + background knowledge = meaning
• Identify purpose of reading!
• (information or feeling / story?)
• Call attention to text structure!
• main idea and supporting details - call attention to words like first, second, third or in addition, also, moreover.
• compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect
• cartoon, news article, folktale, narrative (story), business letter etc.
• Develop templates - structure
• helps students predict and facilitate meaning
Preparing !Comprensible Texts
• Provide B1 level input (comprehensible)
• Control vocabulary (through B1 with some +)
• Make reading about “reading”
• What does teaching look like when we use texts that are too high for students?
How to paraphrase for B1
• Use your professional judgement !!
• shorten sentences!!• simplify grammar!!
• choose more familiar words !!
• limit number of Proper Names
B1
Steps in Paraphrasing• Read text, noting key points and main ideas
• Summarize for yourself what the single main idea is
• Paraphrase important points
• don’t go sentence by sentence/word by word)
• Use essential vocabulary!
• Decide what to quote directly
• (accurately quote word for word and provide source - including page number)
Reading Level of Text:• the more syllables per word and !
• the more words per sentence, !
• the higher the grade level of the text!
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(White, 2011, in Taylor and Weir, 2012, retrieved from http://www.beds.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/197640/EALTA-2012-Taylor-and-Weir-03June12.pdf)
more on reading level…• the more main verbs in a sentence, the more
clauses = more complex!
• the more clauses, the more ideas to hold in memory and link together!
• the more complex, the bigger the “cognitive load”!
• so…to lower the reading level of a text…
• word lists!• outcomes chart !
!! see Dropbox Folder !!
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/blptzflef3s2nnf/AACuhl09QKGxc7dbbQciphANa?dl=0!!! see Terminal Textbook Team website!!http://terminaltextbookteam.com/!!!!
WHEN IN DOUBT…CHECK
B1
read-able.com!!
!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Taylor & Weir 2012 retrieved from http://www.beds.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/197640/EALTA-2012-Taylor-and-Weir-03June12.pdf)!!!
words per sentence
Flesch reading ease
score
Flesch-Kincaid grade
level
Flesch-Kincaid range
15 (range 10-20) 65 7.9 5-10
B1 =
HOW TO CHECK READING LEVEL:
STEP 2: !click !
“Test by Direct Input”
STEP 3: !Copy & paste !
your text in box
STEP 4: !click !
“Calculate Readability”
STEP 5:!Read results
STEP 6:!Compare Results !
to B1
words per
sentence
Flesch reading
ease score
Flesch-Kincaid
grade level
Flesch-Kincaid range
14 (range 10-12)
65 7.9 5-10
Paraphrase!
How to choose B1 vocabulary:
• CHECK WORD LISTS!
• USE BC WORD SEARCH!
• USE VOCAB PROFILE!
• CHOOSE CONTENT AND ACADEMIC WORDS
Both projections were higher than previous estimates, which ranged between 1.5 million and four million. Simon Adcock, of the BSIA, said: “This study represents the most comprehensive and up to date study undertaken into the number of CCTV cameras in use in the UK.
How close !to B1 !is my !
reading !text?
!"I told the villagers that they would get 100 days !employment in a year simply by planting trees and !protecting them. The old, handicapped and widows !would be given preference," he explained. Every village council has now been given a target of planting 50,000 !saplings - a group of four families has to plant 200 !seedlings and they must protect them for three years till !the plants grow more sturdy.
CHECK WORD LISTS
PET! Vocabulary
List!(B1 Cambridge)
!FROM:!http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/84669-vocabulary-list.pdf!!!!In Drop Box Folder: !!!https://www.dropbox.com/sh/blptzflef3s2nnf/AACuhl09QKGxc7dbbQciphANa?dl=0!!
Page 4 of 51 PET Vocabulary List2012 �
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�a/an (det) ability (n) able (adj)
• be able to about (adv & prep)
• about 500 students (adv) • The film is about a small boy. (prep)
above (adj, adv & prep) abroad (adv) absent (adj) absolutely (adv)
• The movie was absolutely awful. accent(n)
• She has a beautiful French accent. accept (v) access (n)
• disabled access • internet access
accident (n) accommodation (n) accompany (v) according to (prep phr) account (n) accountant (n) accurate (adj) ache (n) achieve (v) across (adv & prep) act (n & v)
• in the second act (of the play) (n) • to act in a play (v) • to act strangely (v)
action (n) active (adj) activity (n) actor (n) actress (n) actually (adv)
• She seems a bit strict at first, but she's actually very nice.
• Are you actually going to take the job? ad (advertisement) (n) add (v) addition (n)
• in addition address (n) admire (v) admission (n)
• charges/cost/price admit (v) adult (adj & n) advance (n)
• book in advance
advanced(adj) advantage (n) adventure (n) advert (n) advertise (v) advertisement (n) advice (n) advise (v) aeroplane (n) afford (v) afraid (adj) after (adv,conj & prep) afternoon (n) afterwards (adv) again (adv) against (prep) age (n) aged(adj) agency (n) ago (adv) agree (v) ahead (adv) aim (n & v) air (n) air conditioning (n) air force (n) airline (n) airport (n) alarm (n) alarm clock (n) album (n) alike (adv) alive (adj) all (adj, adv, det & pron) all right/alright (adj,adv & exclam) allow (v) almost (adv) alone (adv & adj) along (adv & prep) aloud (adv) alphabet (n) already (adv) also (adv) although (conj) altogether (adv) always (adv) a.m. (adv) amazed (adj) amazing (adj) ambition (n) ambulance (n) among (amongst) (prep) amount (n) amusing (adj) an (det) ancient (adj) and (conj)
“comprehensive” !isn’t !
on the !PET B1!
list
PET (B1) Word List:
! 1!
headword( A1( A2( B1( B2( C1( C2( X(
Aa( ( ( ( ( ( ( (
a/an1!!one/one!of!
several/one!of!a!set/!any!one!
a/an!det/indefinite!
article!
( ( ( ( ( (
a/an2!!per! ( a/an!det! ( ( ( ( miles/kilometres(an(hour(
abandon( ( ( abandon!vT!!leave!
abandon!vT!!stop!doing!sth(
( ( abandoned!adj!
abandonment!nU!
(
abbreviation( ( ( ( abbreviation!nC! ( ( abbreviate!vT!abbreviated!adj!
unabbreviated!neg!adj!
able!adj!ability!nCU!
unable!neg!adj! ( ( inability!nU! ( able;bodied!adj!!see!also!@!body(
able1/ability!!capacity!
( ( disabled!adj!enable!vT!
disability!nCU! ( ( disable!vT!enabled!adj!
able2!!skilled! able!adj!ability!nCU!
( ( ( inability!nU( ( to(the(best(of(one’s(ability/abilities(
abnormal!!see!also!@!normal(
( ( ( ( abnormal!neg!adj! ( abnormality!nC!abnormally!neg!adv(
aboard!!see!also!@!board2!
( ( ( ( aboard!adv/prep( ( (
abolish( ( ( ( abolish!vT! ( abolition!nU! (
abortion( ( ( ( abortion!nC! ( ( abort!vIT!aborted!adj!
abortionist!nC!
abound/abundance( ( ( ( ( abundance!nU!
abundant!adj!
abound!vI!formal! abundantly!adv!
in(abundance(
about1!!connected!
with,!related!to!
about(prep!
how(about(…?!/what(about(…?!!suggestion!
( ( ( ( ( (
BRITISH COUNCIL WORD LIST
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/wff/pdfs/wff.pdf!https://www.dropbox.com/sh/blptzflef3s2nnf/AACuhl09QKGxc7dbbQciphANa?dl=0!
“handicapped” !is B2
DO A WORD SEARCH
BC Word Family Framework - Search individual words
1. type word here
2. check “all”3. Click here
“projection”
“projection” !is!C1
USE VOCAB PROFILE
Compleat Lexical Tutor -http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/
Vocab Profile!Step 1: Read instructions
Step 2: Highlight & delete instructions
Step 3-5: Paste text, Check “caps” box, Submit
Step 4: click box
Step 3
Step 5:Submit
Here’s what you get:
academic words, most frequent list , !2nd most frequent list, “off-list” words
How can you use this…!• to make your text
closer to B1?!
• to choose content and academic vocabulary?!
• to help you not choose inappropriate vocabulary for B1?
Scroll down and you’ll see…
Scroll Down for Content and Academic words
You can print or save an output list:
academic sub-lists and “off-list” words
How can these tools help you?
• to hit the B1 target?!!
• to choose appropriate vocabulary?!!
• any other ways?
B1
Check these out…
for you:for students
Bonus resource for student reading & listening:
Recap:• Check reading level read-able.com!
• Use your professional judgement !
• Paraphrase main ideas!
• Choose what to quote directly, quote accurately, cite source (Author, date & page #)!
• Use B1 words, content & academic words !
• Check word lists !
• PET B1 - http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/84669-vocabulary-list.pdf!
• BC Word Family - http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/wff/pdfs/wff.pdf!
• Use Word Search!
• BC Word Family Framework - http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/wff/#!
• Vocab Profile - http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/
B1
