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skills)
Receptive (extensive) reading
Intensive reading
Reading for detailed
comprehension
Reading for pleasure
Micro-skills:
Skimming (general idea)
Scanning (particular bits of
information)
PRE-LISTENING/READING
ACTIVITIES: examples
looking at pictures and talking about them
looking at a list of items/thoughts/ etc.
making lists of
possibilities/ideas/suggestions/vocabulary/
etc
reading through questions (to be answered
while listening/reading) focus of
attention
labelling
completing part of a chart
predicting/speculating
pre-viewing language
informal teacher talk and class discussion
Pre-listening/reading activities:
your examples
making mind maps based on the title
making predictions based on the title
personalization (e.g. questions about
personal experience)
T-table
brainstorming
guessing/prediction based on
pictures
WHILE-LISTENING/READING
ACTIVITIES:
examples
marking/checking completing grids
items in pictures form/chart completion
matching pictures with labelling
what is heard/read using lists
storyline picture sets true/false (+ not there)
putting pictures in multiple-choice
order questions
completing pictures text completion (gap-
picture drawing filling)
carrying out actions spotting mistakes
making predicting (the exact
models/arranging words)
items in patterns (i.e. seeking specific items
following instructions) of information
following a route note-taking
While-listening/reading
activities: your examples
guess the title
answering general qs
yes/no qs
putting mixed paragraphs/sentences in order
matching parts of sentences
PW: asking qs about paragraphs
main ideas of paragraphs
comparing 3 or more ideas
pro/con tables
venn diagramms
transformation (e.g. direct into indirect speech)
paraphrasing
selective qs
acitivites with songs (e.g. ordering the lyrics)
POST-LISTENING/READING
ACTIVITIES:
examples
form/chart completion
extending lists
sequencing / ’grading’
matching with a reading text
extending notes into written responses
summarizing
using information for problem-solving and decision-
making activities
jigsaw listening/reading
identifying relationships between
speakers/characters
establishing the mood/attitude/behaviour of the
speaker/writer or character
role-play / simulation
dictation
Post-listening/reading
activities: your examples
making a mind-map
write/tell the ending/beginning of the story
personalizing: write/tell about own
experience
dramatize: make a play based on the story
make a dialogue based on the text
interview
write an alternative story
What would you do?
make a commercial/tour guide…
illustrate the story (drawing, making
collages)
Assignment No. 3:
Teaching receptive skills
Due: 3 May 2011
(hand the printed version in class)
Assignment No. 3