Reading Mission

Trying to entice my classes to read English, I gave them an article which describes the characteristics of the 12 zodiac signs. The four-page article looks somewhat overwhelming; however, the mission is easy. The students are asked to read only the part about their own sign, 10 short paragraphs at most, and then fill in a chart the adjectives, both postive and negative, used in the article to describe the sign as well as indicating whether the adjectives correctly describe them as a person.

Instead of giving the students only the part about their own sign, I gave them information of all the 12 signs, in the hope that out of curiosity, they might read more to know something about people close to them, and hence expose themselves to more English.