Illustrate and decide whether the following words have any reference to the main character.

Stage five – follow up activities.

Analytical reading is aimed at full and accurate comprehending of all the information present in the text. It implies a purpose­ful analysis of the content of what is being read.

Analytical reading presupposes:

- analysis of the sentences;

- building up a word family;

- semantic mapping;

- grouping the words;

- suggesting lexical analogies;

- finding the initial forms of the words;

- skimming reading is aimed at the gist of reading material;

- scanning reading is aimed at finding out a particular piece of information about concrete things.

Checking up understanding in analytical readingis done in the form of written translation.

Checking up understanding in analytical reading is done with the help of grammar analysis aimed at the dif­ferentiation of various forms according to their formal characte­ristics and at defining their function in a particular sentence.

Skimming reading. It is important for reading big texts the amount of which is not great.

Skimming readingis aimed at getting a general idea of the subject of an article, a book, at looking through the titles, some passages.

Synthetical reading is aimed at getting an idea of the content of a book, concentrating attention on the main facts.

Analytical reading is aimed at understanding fully and completely all the information and to think it over.

How to work at a text with the aim of grasping its general content.

Step one: Work at the title. (Setting a task, arousing interest)

Step two: Grasping the main information out of the text (work in pre-questions and pre-text tasks).

Step three: Cutting the main information:

a) dividing the text into logical parts,

b) making up a plan,

c) work with key-words and phrases (distribution of key­words among, the items of the plan, searching and rea­ding out sentences with key-words, cutting, them snort).

d) brief retelling of the content of the text according to the items of the plan,

Step four: interpreting the content of what has been read (defining the main ideas, stating one's own attitude, transfer motion of the text in the person of one of the characters).

Before-you-read activities:

Several techniques that can be used to encourage reader-initiated questions:

1. The first-sentence stimulus. The 1st sentence of a text is put on the board and pupils are asked to write 10 questions about the sentences,

2. The thematic stimulus. Pupils are asked to generate questions that have to do with the general theme of the reading.

3. The picture stimulus. Pictures are used to motivate students to ask questions related to the general theme of the read up.

4. The reading stimulus. Students are asked to formulate questions at various points in the text or at the end of the passage.

Exercises extending from the text.