Question

Traffic Light Reading is one of students’ favorites! And it’s so simple. Here’s what to do: Take three pens in different colors, most suitably red, orange and green. But it’s not too important as long as teachers and students are both clear on the colour code they’re going to use.

Students read a text, not worrying too much about how much they understand. Teachers can ask them to re-read when students are paying attention to vocabulary. Start by underlining the words that they understand completely (including names, numbers etc) in green.

Then students re-read the text and underline the words that look familiar, they maybe know them but aren’t too sure about them. You guessed it: in orange.

Finally, students read the text a third time underlining the words they clearly don’t understand in red. Sometimes teachers might want to set students a limit for how many red words they underline, telling them only to underline the words that they believe are seriously blocking their understanding of the text as a whole. Generally, however, students are pleasantly surprised by how few words are red and how many are green. Seeing their ability laid out in a visual way really helps to increase confidence.

Once the whole text is underlined, teachers can give students a limit of 5, 10 or 15 words, depending on the length of the text, and tell them they’re only allowed to look these words up in a dictionary. This helps them to recognize words that are actually getting in the way of their understanding of the text and words that they don’t know but actually don’t impact their whole understanding of the text.

This is a useful activity that can be done with a printed text, in a Google Doc, on RealtimeBoard, or set as a homework task for some independent study.

1.What do we know about Traffic Light Reading?

A. It’s easy.    B. It’s expensive.

C. It’s difficult    D. It’s useless.

2.If a student uses orange to underline a word, it means that he       .

A. doesn’t know it at all    B. has actually understood it

C. isn’t certain about its meaning    D. has never met with it at all

3.What does the underlined word “impact” in Paragraph 5 mean?

A. increase.    B. form.

C. affect    D. use.

4.In the author’s opinion, Traffic Light Reading       .

A. needs more eyes than mind

B. trains students’ ability to learn

C. makes the students study long hours

D. encourages the students to speak bravely

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.C

4.B

【解析】文章介绍了Traffic Light Reading阅读法在教学中的应用，这种方法旨在帮助学生提高阅读能力。

1.A细节理解题。根据第一段Traffic Light Reading is one of students’ favorites! And it’s so simple(交通指示灯式阅读是学生们最喜欢的方式之一！这是如此简单。)可知，因为它简单，所以学生们喜欢，A项正确，故选A。

2.C细节理解题。根据第三段Then students re-read the text and underline the words that look familiar-they maybe know them but aren’t too sure about them. You guessed it: in orange. （然后学生们重新阅读课文，并划出熟悉的单词，他们可能知道这些单词，但不太确定。你猜对了：橙色的。）可知，橙色表示不太确定的，C项正确，故选C。

3.C词义猜测题。But表示转折，前边说不知道，所以后边转折为但是不影响理解，可知impact是affect的意思，故选C。

4.B推理判断题。文章介绍了Traffic Light Reading阅读法的应用旨在帮助学生提高阅读能力。B项正确，故选B。

点睛：文章是以阅读方法作为话题的，内容贴近学生学习生活，问题设置以细节理解题为主，只要带着问题到文章中查找相关段落即可确定答案，如第二小题抓住题干中uses orange to underline a word，即可确定应查找段落在第三段，再找到关键语句Then students re-read the text and underline the words that look familiar-they maybe know them but aren’t too sure about them. You guessed it: in orange.答案即可确定。