TEACHING THE LANGUAGE SKILLS

LISTENING

pre

prepare what the students are gonna hear

Through

BRAINSTORMING:
- from one to many
- poster display
- brainwalking
- board writing
- shout to the scribe

VISUAL:
- pictures
- guest what's happening
- picture story
- studentss as artists
- guide visualitation

REALIA:
- photos
- brochures
- othe objects

TEXTS AND WORDS:
- court case
- fill exercise
- key words
- L1 first

SITUATIONS:
- functions
- mystery headlines
- problem - solving

OPINIONS:
- KWL charts
- speed writing
- group writing
- quatations
- backgrounding
- quizzes
- advance organisers

while

evidence of understanding - non understanding

Through

LISTENING FOR DETAIL:
- bingo
- times
- spot the difference
- a story told twice
- mixed focus
- hoarse whisperers

INFERRING:
- pause and predicct
- not her/him
- twuelve questions

PARTICIPATING ACTIVELY:
- listen and describe
- interrupted storytelling
- truth or lie
- infotmation transfer

DICTATION:
- interactive dictation
- dictigloss
- picture dictation
- gap dictaation
- false facts dictation
- grading dictation
- running dictation
- transcribe

LISTEN AND DO:
- simon says
- last one is out
- stand up if...
- change chairs if
- blind man's bluff
- grab the word
- mime
- just do it

post

it's a diagnostic

Through

CHECKING AND SUMMARISING:
- take in turns
- break it down
- note comparison
- group summary

DISCUSSION:
- personalise
- questions
- statements
- sorting list
- pros and cos

CREATIVE RSPONSES:
- genre transfer
- moral and headline
- wirte on
- hot seat

INFORMATION EXCHANGE:
- genre transfer
- moral and headline
- wirte on
- hot seat

PROBLEM SOLVING:
- listing
- sorting
- ranking

WRITING

Through

teaching andwriting:
1. recognition (lower and upper case)
2. production

the spelling challenge:
students need to be aweraness of the
difference between
- homophones
- suffixes
- affixes

teaching spelling:
students hear words and try to identify
- digraphs
- trigraphs
- convergence
- trivergence
using activities like
- backward spelling
- secret codes
- crosses and noughts

teaching puntuation and copying:
checking puntuation using many texts
and trying to use puntuation correctly

READING

information to
communicate with others and also for
enjoyment

is a complex cognitive process dependent on an
interaction between information.

communities and
parents have to teach the following:

- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics
- Vocabulary
- Text comprehension
- Fluency

before

using:
- Brainstorm llinked to
the story in some way
- Introduce essential vocabulary using
visuals, sketches and realia
- Discussion
- Focused questions to check
understanding of key concepts
- Prediction activities using key
vocabulary, visuals, realia
- Sequencing pictures
- Sequencing a series of key words

while

using:
- Complete a cloze activity
- Categorizing texts
- Skeleton texts
- Retelling the story
-Working out the meaning of unfamiliar
words

after

using:
-Offering personal opinions about
the text
- Completing the sentences
-Choosing characters from a
set of visuals
- Telling the story from another
perspective
- Retell/comprehend the story
in another language form

SPEAKING

communicative activities

the teacher's role providing:
- whole task practice
- improve motivation
- allow natural learning

functional communicative activities

1. describing pictures
2. discovering identical pairs
3. discovering sequences
4. discovering missing information

social interaction activities

1. discussions
2. role plays

the situation must to stimulated
the students' creation and points of view

planned input

activities like:
- photos
- firsts
- childhood anecdotes
- chat show
- biographies

semi planned input

spontaneous input