The Future Tenses - Other Future Forms - Present Continuous - Teaching Idea
This teaching idea is very similar to the activity we can use for the future continuous. We pair up our students, give them diaries and have them find the day on which both of them are free to meet. This video shows you exactly how to execute this activity in the classroom.
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This unit is all about the receptive skills which contains reading and listening learnin.
Two major reasons of reading and listening are explained in this unit, .
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reading and listening for a purpose that could be to understand the instructio.
And, gaining an entertainment for pleasur.
In common understanding, most of people thinks reading and listening are done with eyes and ear.
In fact, we never think that reading and listening also use our mind to literally understand words and process them in our pre-existent knowledge for true understandin.
Technically, following expertise skills are determine the ability of understanding of different readers and listeners: -predictive skills, -read or listen for a particular area from whole content, -get a general understanding of the content by reading or listening the gist of a text/dialogue, -detailed information for a manner to understand the whole content, able to deduce the meaning of individual words/phrases and understanding beyond the literal meaning of word.
Problems with learning receptive skills: There could be a number of problems for a reader and listener in regard to the language contained in text, the topic and tas.
1) Difficulty level of language and vast words can create the problem for student.
However, teaching those unknown vocabulary prior of achieving the activity may help students to deduce the problems of understandin.
There should be careful selection of text by the teacher as he/she should be concerned what students can achieve according to students' level rather than focus on what students don't kno.
2) Selection of an interesting topic in the point of students' view is a suitable approach to solve the problem of students are not being interested to learn or participate due to a boring topic for the.
An appropriate topic selection should varied over the multiple time to ensure all students are involve.
3) Tasks neither should be too difficult to achieve nor too easy according to the students ability to get rid of boredo.