Procedure 1. Hand out the worksheet and discuss the first three questions on it with the students as a whole class. Explain that the students are going to work on a task which involves matching headings to sections of a text. 2. Show the first paragraph of the reading text on an OHT. Ask students to find the topic sentence. Then ask them to skim the rest of the paragraph to see how closely the paragraph as a whole relates to the topic sentence. Elicit a few possible headings for the paragraph and write them on the board. 3. Hand out one paragraph to each student. If there are more students than paragraphs, more than one student can have the same paragraph. If there are fewer students than paragraphs, give stronger students two paragraphs. 4. Ask students to skim their paragraph, locating the topic sentence and then decide what the main idea is. 5. While students are reading, stick each heading on the white board or around the walls of the classroom. Make sure they are large enough for students to read easily. 6. Hand out a list of headings to each student and ask them to look through them. 7. Students go and stand next to the heading which they think best fits their paragraph. At this point there may be students claiming one heading for different paragraphs. Note which paragraphs and heading these are. © UCLES 2009. This material may be photocopied (without alteration) and distributed for classroom use provided no charge is made. For further information see our Terms and Conditions 8. Students sit down again. Hand out reading text. Give students 3 minutes to skim read the whole text. 9. Direct students to the paragraphs which were claimed by more than one student in the previous step. Students read the first ‘problem’ paragraph. Ask the ‘owner’ of the paragraph to say which heading they thought it was and why. Encourage students to agree or disagree (providing explanation) with this. Continue with the other ‘problem’ paragraphs, recording the student answers on the board. 10. After the class has decided on their answers, write them on the board (there may still be disagreement, in which case record all possible answers on the board). 11. Ask students to go back to the text and check each answer on the board to see if they agree with it. Add/remove/change any answers on the board which students now want. 12. Tell the students the correct answers. Students go back to the text and find why each answer is correct. 13. Ask students to discuss with their partner what procedure they would use to do a task type 6 alone. Elicit a few ideas and direct the students towards concluding that it is advisable to skim read each paragraph and then read the headings to find a suitable one. Point out that if they start with the headings and scan for the key words in them, they will be finding specific information rather than the main idea. 14. Give students another task type 5 for homework.