中小学英语真实阅读教学所倡导的一种新的课内外相结合的阅读教学方法,就是运用真实任务教学方法,整合英语课堂教学与课外阅读,使课外阅读成为课堂教学的有机组成部分。例如,我们在教授高中《英语》外研版的课文“The cat that vanished”时,通过课堂学习对故事情节进行分析,引导学生建构课文的基本图式:
Who:Will, a boy whose father disappeared and mother was ill
Did what: saw a cat, followed the cat and entered a new world
Where: from Oxford, England entering an invisible world
For what: to find his father
Intended points of value: Human being brings himself fatal disasters. Human being saves himself after returning to the earth.