Let’s
assume we start work in class with the English article, the BECKHAM one, and
let’s imagine we engage in some sort of interaction with our students,
something like,
•we have a magazine article here, and we want to
find out some basic information, things like, where and when the match took
place, who won it, who scored the goals, and why this victory is important
•there will probably be a lot of words we don’t
know
•do we need to understand everything, given our
purpose in reading this article? What are the words that we definitely need
to understand?
•how can we deal with “new” or “difficult”
words? Let’s try and see, for instance,
•how these words are made, maybe if they are
made with pieces of words that we already know …
•which position they hold in the sentence:
perhaps we’ll find out that one must be a verb, another one must be an
adjective …
•let’s see if we can get some help by looking at
the words that come before and after …
•let’s make a hypothesis, and then let’s go on
reading and check if we were right or if we need to go back and try something
else …
