Productive Skills and Grammar

________________ are known as productive skills.

• Listening and reading

• Speaking and writing

Speaking is ___________________.

• the process of using symbols (letters, appropriate punctuation, and spaces) to communicate ideas.

• the process of looking at and understanding the meaning of letters, words, symbols, etc.

• the delivery of language through the mouth. It requires organs and body parts (the lungs, vocal tract, vocal cords, tongue, teeth, and lips) to work together.

While students are communicating in English, teachers must correct every single mistake they make, so students perfect their skills.

• True

• False

What are the three speaking stages for classroom activities?

• Introduction, vocabulary, and pair-work.

• Speaking, interaction, and production.

• Pre-speaking, During speaking, and Post-speaking

• Speak, pronounce, and answer.

What are some examples or speaking activities?

• creating emails and letters.

• watching videos and listening to audios.

• reading books and short stories.

• surveys, board games, and role plays.

Writing should be developed starting from the A1 level because at this level students are familiar with more vocabulary and grammar.

• True

• False

Which of the following are writing sub-skills?

• skimming and scanning.

• pronunciation, fluency, and word stress.

• listening for gist and listening for detail.

• using a model, filling in the blanks, and writing to a situation.

Students receive a text or sentences with missing information. They ask and answer questions in pairs in order to write down the details provided by their friends.

• writing to a situation

• filling in the blanks

• writing by using a model.

The most important part of teaching grammar is that students memorize grammatical structures.

• True

• False

How do we teach grammar inductively?

• Teachers present the structure and rules of the grammar topic and then students are shown more examples.

• Teachers set a context and provide clear examples to help students discover the rule.