Skills The aim Abilities Task

Receptive The aim of These skills are Match the headings

Skills teaching receptive sometimes known with the
skills is to help the as passive skills. paragraphs
learners develop They can be True or false
the necessary skills contrasted with theMultiple choice
to understand and productive or Open-ended
interpret spoken or active skills of questions
written materials. speaking and Put the paragraphs
writing. into the correct
order
Missing sentences
Complete the
sentences about the
text
Vocabulary in a
text
The writer’s
opinion or reader’s
response
Sub-skills of The language skills identifying the Give the class five
Receptive of speaking, topic – readers and minutes to
Skills listening, writing listeners are able to brainstorm ideas
and reading are identify the topic relating to the topic
often divided into of a text very fast of the reading.
sub-skills, which with the help of Then give them a
are specific their techniques of further five
behaviours that how to get into the minutes to
language users do idea of what is organize their ideas
in order to be being and to form
effective in each of talked/written sentences. Once
the skills. about. they have
completed this,
encourage them to
get up and move
around the room
and share their
ideas with other
learners.
Predictive having identified Their subsequent The title
skills the topic both reading or listening Ask the students to
readers and helps them to make small groups
listeners guess confirm their and tell the groups
what is being expectations of the title of the
written or talked what they have reading. The
about predicted. learners should
 work together to
pool their
knowledge of this
topic. Again, once
the group has
finished, each
group can share
their ideas with the
other groups.
Methodological Listening is the The reading Purpose
Principles for skill that children process can be Give the students a
Teaching acquire first. When subdivided into purpose for
Receptive Skills students start to two stages: completing the
acquire a foreign decoding and reading. This can
language they can interpreting. be in the form of
pick it up in many some discussion
ways. They have a questions about the
lot of extra content prepared
curricular sources by the teacher.
(songs, films, Give the questions
native speakers, to the students
etc) at hand. before they read
the text. Ask them
to read them and
then while they are
reading the text,
they should
prepare answers to
these discussion
questions. When
they have read the
text, they then
discuss the
questions with a
partner.