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I learned from this unit that there are four basic skills to learn in any language: receptive skills, which are reading and listening, and productive skills, which are speaking and writing, all of which are equally as important. There two main reasons why we might read and listen, which are for a purpose (like reading instructions), or for entertainment (like reading a magazine article on a topic we're just curious about).
How we read and listen involves processing the information to gain an understanding of the content. The skills are predictive skills, scanning, skimming, to understand in detail, and deduction from context.
I've learned it can be a big help to pre-teach vocabulary before presenting a reading or listening activity, and to select texts carefully, for their skill level and what might be interesting for them.
There are fun ways to get students interested and engaged in the lesson. In the engage phase, I could start by showing a Michael Jackson music video, and we could discuss what the class already knows about him and what they would want to know about him. They would then read/listen to a text or clip with biography information about Michael Jackson, and discuss if they learned anything new or if it answered their questions.
In the study phase I would recognize what vocab or language they had problems with in the text and clarify the meaning.
In another engage phase, I would elicit other songs they know of his and play one. Maybe even have the class stand up and dance a bit to get some movement and laughs!
In the next study phase, students would read the text again and complete comprehension worksheets, then get in pairs and compare their responses. We would discuss responses quickly as a class.
In the activate phase, I would take away the text from the students and have them write a brief biography of Michael Jackson based on what they've learned. Beforehand this might be a good time to go over the future perfect tense or the past simple, depending on what they've already learned.
In the final study phase, check that they've used the tenses appropriately and fully understood the meaning of the text.
In the final activate phase, depending on how well the students know each other, each student writes a brief biography about themselves without giving names, then I mix up the papers and hand them out randomly. Each student reads the biography of another student they've been given, and the class tries to guess who it is about. Or if they don't know each other that well, put students in pairs and have them pick a famous person and do the same thing.
