Receptive skills

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Write your own definition for "Receptive skills".

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Write two examples of listening subskills and what they refer to

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Write two examples of reading subskills and what they refer to.

Multiple Choice

When we are dealing with some listening texts, for example, a set of instructions or a waiter explaining what's in a dish, it's important that we understand nearly everything. If we miss something important we may make a serious mistake or get the wrong meal.

• Extensive listening

• Intensive listening

• Monitor listening

Multiple Choice

Typically, in a TV news programme, people will watch and listen quite casually until a key word or picture alerts them to an item of interest. Then they switch listening mode and pay more attention. Travel announcements are often dealt with this way. If we recognise that the announcement does not concern our journey, we just switch off until the next one comes along.

• Extensive listening

• Intensive listening

• Monitor listening

Multiple Choice

A TV soap opera or an anecdote might require some attention but as long as we get the gist of what's going on, it isn't usually necessary (or possible) to catch every word and every nuance.

• Extensive listening

• Intensive listening

• Monitor listening

Multiple Choice

Texts with very important information (instructions at work, information about finance and tax and so on) require this approach. We may even have to take notes!

• Extensive reading/ skimming

• Intensive reading

• Scanning

Multiple Choice

Typically, on a news website, people will run their eyes across the links looking for a story that interests them and then access the text for a more detailed look at the information. Even when we are quite interested in a story, we still often won't read every word, preferring to skip to the important (for us) bits of the story.

• Extensive reading/ skimming

• Intensive reading

• Scanning

Multiple Choice

Ignoring whole parts and just getting the gist is called...

• Extensive reading/ skimming

• Intensive reading

• Scanning

Open Ended

What's the framework you use to plan a receptive skills lesson?

It is quite common to use a Pre-While-Post framework for this type of lesson.

Think about a recent receptive skills lesson you have taught to answer the following questions:

Receptive skills and your application

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What activity did you set for the “pre” stage?

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What sub skill was developed during the "while" stage and how?

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What activity did you set for the “post” stage?

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Did you use any technological resources for that lesson, for which stage and how?

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In your opinion, to what extent is it important to incorporate technology in a receptive skills lesson?

Thanks for your commitment :)

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