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This lesson talks about Teaching receptive skills, There are four basic skills in any language; receptive skills – reading and listening, and productive skills – speaking and writing there are reasons for reading and listening, reading the newspaper to get information or reading novels for entertainment, listening to news on television for information and listening to music for entertainment etc. reading and listening are not matters for the eyes and ears, but a matter of using our minds to literally understand words and process them in our preexistent knowledge to gain true understanding. there are skills reading or listening, and understanding of the context will depend on their expertise in these areas: Predictive skills, General idea – skimming, Specific information – scanning, Detailed information, Deduction from context.
The basic keys to successful receptive skill lessons are:
1. Choose material that interests/motivates the students
2. Build interest before reading/listening
3. Pre-teach complex vocabulary or structures if necessary, but don't overdo it!
4. Vary the type of material
5. Use the material to practise different skills
6. Use realistic comprehension tasks that aid understanding
7. Incorporate activate phases that naturally lead on from the text
