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This unit covers teaching receptive skills, which are listening and reading. The lesson explains:
Reason for listening and reading--two reasons are purpose and entertainment, sometimes both together.
How we read and listen--five mentioned.
These are: Predictive skills
Specific information, scanning
General idea, skimming
Detailed information
Deduction from context
Problems with listening and reading--which has to do with language, topics, and tasks.
Language--pre-teaching vocabulary, and careful selection of texts will bolster students confidence.
Topics--knowing students' interests and using a variety of tasks will help the students.
Tasks--a realistic jumbled text task will promote understanding.
Create interest--in topics and tasks
The unit ended with a sample patchwork lesson for receptive skills where we could see the importance of keeping interest high.
