TKT Module 1 -Skills Review

to listen to or read a text in order to understand most of what it says or particular information

• Listening/reading for detail

• Note-taking

• Predicting

• Summarising

to guess the meaning of an unknown word by using the information in a situation and/or around the word to help

• Listening/reading for gist, global understanding

• Proofreading

• Deducing meaning from context

• Scanning

to listen and write down ideas from the text in short form

• Editing

• Proofreading

• Inferring attitude, feeling, mood

• Note-taking

to read a text quickly to get a general idea of what it is about

• Scanning

• Predicting

• Skimming

• Note-taking

to read a text in order to check whether there are any mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation etc

• Proofreading

• Using interactive strategies

• Listening/reading for gist, global understanding

• Note-taking

to understand the general meaning of a text or a recording, without paying attention to specific details

• Proofreading

• Listening/reading for gist, global understanding

• Inferring attitude, feeling, mood

• Summarising

to decide how a writer or speaker feels about something from the way that they speak or write, rather than from what they openly say or the words they use

• Scanning

• Listening/reading for gist, global understanding

• Deducing meaning from context

• Inferring attitude, feeling, mood

to read a text quickly to pick out specific information, e.g. finding a phone number in a phone book

• Scanning

• Summarising

• Paraphrasing

• Skimming

to use strategies when speaking to keep people involved and interested in what is said or to keep communication going, e.g. eye contact, use of gestures

• Scanning

• Using interactive strategies

• Inferring attitude, feeling, mood

• Proofreading

To say or write something that has been read or heard using different words

• Scanning

• Predicting

• Paraphrasing

• Proofreading