Approaches to reading 1 Introduction and lead-in,  eg get the learners interested in the topic,  initial discussion of key themes,  make an explicit link between the topic of the text and students'  own lives and experiences,  focus on important language that will come inFirst task(pre-reading),  eg predict from some extracted(illustration,  key words,  headlines),  read information questions about the text,  students compose th quesjAnSTasks to focus on fast reading for gist(sk g.eg check text against predictions made beforehand,  guess the titie from a choice of three options,  put events(or illustrations)  in the correct ordertask to focs on meaning general point eg answer questions about meaning,  make use of information in the text to do something(make a sketch,  fill out a form,  find out which picture is being described,  etc),  discuss issues arguments,  compare viewpoints summariseTasks to focus on individual language items,  eg exercises,  use of dictionaries,  work out meaning or grammar of words from contextFollow-on task,  eg role play,  debate,  writing task(eg write a personalisation(eg'Have you ever had an letter in reply),  erience like this one?')closing eg draw the lesson to a conclusion tie up loose ends review what has been studies and what has been learned