Reading

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 594.

1) Look at the headlines below. What do they suggest the article is about?

2) Read the article. Is it important to praise pupils? Why/Why not?

3) Complete the short summary of the article adding one word to each gap.

Researchers initially … how often teachers touched their pupils. They then … some of the teachers to touch their pupils … when they praised them. They found that in the classes in which teachers touched … they praised, the pupils' … increased dramatically and disruption in the class … .

4) Why, according to the article, does patting have such an effect?

5) Look at the list below of words and expressions from or based on the article. Put a tick next to those which you might use to talk about a lesson you enjoyed, and a cross next to those you might use to refer to a lesson you found difficult. Then compare your answers with a partner.

concentrate pencil-grabbing

disruption bad behaviour

water-throwing hard-working

praise Well done!

Can you think of three phrases you would use to praise your pupils, apart from Well done?