ZNO Teachers!
Here is a simple way to make reading activities more fun, and a nice way to get students paraphrasing. Of course, that's a skill which is essential for tackling the writing, reading and listening parts of ZNO.
Many modern books aimed at helping students with ZNO, such as 'Focus' or 'Wider World' include reading tasks such as Matching, Multiple Choice and Gap Fills. These reflect the exam tasks the students will tackle in their exams.
Paraphrase Pairs
Instead of asking the students to do the multiple choice individually. We can put the students in pairs and give one student the questions and the other student the text.
The student with the questions must find out the answers without looking at the text themself. The students must work together to decide what the answers are, without showing each other the questions or text.
However...
Neither of the students are allowed to read directly from their paper!
They must summarise and paraphrase the questions and relavent parts of the text to each other. This will encourage them to think of synonyms and alternative ways of expressing ideas, skills which will come in handy when taking those all-important ZNO papers.
Have fun!
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