Workshop: Teaching Critical Reading

Posted by Mohamed Salah ABIDI, ELT Inspector.

"The following reading activities are elaborated by groups of teachers of English at the workshop organized at the CREFOC of Sidi Bouzid on November 14th, 2009. The aim of the session is to raise awareness of the benefits of being creative and teach beyond the textbook. The worksheets developed by the different groups of teachers are not lesson plans to follow implementing in the classroom.
Topic: Teaching Critical Reading through Applying Bloom’s Taxonomy
Audience: Teachers of 1st Year Secondary Education
Material: a selection of reading passages from the textbook “Perform through English”.
Step1: a PowerPoint presentation by Belgacim HAMDI, a trainee inspector at the CENAFFE.
Step2: Groups of teachers design reading activities relative to the reading passages selected from the above mentioned textbook.
Step3: OHP presentation of the activities by representatives of the groups and discussion and feedback."

Reading activities elaborated by teachers during the workshop:

Teaching critical reading: A PowerPoint presentation by Belgacim HAMDI

N.B: To download these documents, check also the Download Area: Workshops -> Teaching Critical Reading.

The Test Sampler IN ITS ENTIRETY!

The Test Sampler has received a very warm response from teachers as it is an essential reference for everyone who is interested in constructing clear, valid and cogent tests. For your convenience, the Test Sampler is here in its entirety.Check the sidebar for the full version.
To download it, follow these links:
Link 1
Link 2

New in the testing system

IMPORTANT: A few changes have been made to the official documents regarding tests (Basic & Secondary Education: click here to go to the related post) . Teachers are kindly requested to consult those documents and to make sure that the end-of-term tests and all coming tests conform to the previously mentioned directives and reflect those new changes.
Those and other documents can also be viewed here:
Evaluation in Basic Education:

Evaluation in Technical Basic Education:

Ongoing Evaluation in Secondary Education:

How to use the 4th Year Book (Skills For Life):

Happy Eid!

Our friend Abdelhamid RHAIM wants to share this presentation with you just to cheer everybody up and brighten up your day. May all your days be blissful and joyful celebrations!
Wisdom: A PowerPoint presentation by Abdelhamid RHAIM, Gabes University:

We wish you a Happy Eid.

Test Sampler : Exclusively on the Tunisian ELT Forum!

Test Sampler is an unpublished document elaborated by the Tunisian ELT Inspectors in the form of an Action Research. ELT Inspector Mohamed Salah ABIDI has kindly sent this great resource "with the purpose that the teachers have access to it and find guidance to develop their own tests fit for their classroom situations without using these samples to evaluate their learners."
The second Part of this indispensable document will be uploaded next month.

Waiting for your articles!

Hi everyone!
We are already thinking about the next issue of our magazine which will be published in January 2010. The central theme of the next issue will be "Assessment". We are avidly waiting for your articles, comments, suggestions and opinions about the next topic.
For details on how to send your articles, we kindly refer you to our magazine(page 2) and the FAQs section on the forum.
The Tunisian ELT Forum Magazine Team