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In the Unit 11 we learn about receptive skills such as reading and listening. There are 2 major categories of reasons and motives for reading and listening: for a purpose or for entertainment. Often our motives are the mixture of those 2.
People's receptive skills are not fully affected by what they see or hear at the moment, but depend on pre-existing knowledge they acquire from the cultural background. There are also different kind of skills for reading and listening such as prediction, scanning, skimming, getting detailed information and deduction from context.
When teaching receptive skills students may experience a number of potential problems which becomes an obstacle for understanding. To remove some of the obstacles the teacher should introduce the students to difficult structures, some unknown words and terminology. The teacher should also be careful with the materials selected for the class matter and choose the ones more suited to the student abilities. The selected text must be interesting and motivating for the study otherwise the class won't engage with material and in the tasks that go with it. While the tasks should be challenging - not too easy, not too hard to sort out. So knowing your students is crucial here.
