Receptive Skills

Question 1

Top-down approach to reading

Answer 1

ss build up the message making use of what they already know to help them predict the structure and content of a text and getting a general overall impression (gist) of the message.
* EFL primary school ss prefer to work focusing on meaning rather than on every single word.

Question 2

Bottom-up Approach to reading

Answer 2

ss build up the message from the individual small pieces (words, sounds)

Question 3

Skimming vs Scanning

Answer 3

Skimming: reading rapidly just to get a general overview of the material, the gist of the passage.
Scanning: reading rapidly in order to locate specific facts or pieces of information.

Question 4

Extensive reading

Answer 4

• literature
• more common in real life, not reading to get vocab or language from the text
• fluent, faster reading, often longer texts
• for pleasure, without much attention to details
• essential to provide our sts with exposure to the foreign language

Question 5

Intensive reading

Answer 5

• reading for details
• gaining an understanding of as many details as possible
• in real life only some very specific purposes: reading a manual, guidelines on how to protect yourself from dengue, a set of instructions to assemble smth, a cluee to play treasure hunt

Question 5

Vocabulary Teaching

Answer 5

Vocabulary knowledge is the best predictor of reading comprehension. It is key to progress in literacy, and in all other curriculum areas. By reading diverse materials, learners encounter unfamiliar words and phrases, enhancing their lexical repertoire.

Question 6

Listening Skill

Answer 6

Ss need to listen with a purpose. Before we give ss a listening, they have to know what they’re expected to do.

Two possibilitites:
1. ss get the gist: general overview of the main story or message of a conversation
2. ss catch specific details: setting, timing, characters, etc.

The listening shouldn’t be a memory test. We’re trying to teach ss to communicate irl.

Question 7

Bottom-up approach to listening

Answer 7

We understand that it’s impossible to carry out this process in spoken language all the time bc spoken english is too fast to pay attention to all the components of the message.
-> when we listen to a message, we only focus on the relevant info

Question 8

Top-down approach to listening

Answer 8

using what we already know to understand spoken text.
🔴going from general to specific🔴

most commonly used irl.

the first task ss perform should be an easy one, so that they can feel confident while doing the following tasks.

Activities for lower form:
- put in order
- match
- t/f
- identify
- draw/color

Upper form:
- describe which celebrities they know and what kind of info they know ab them. the teacher can provide examples of celebrities for context
- while listening the teacher will pretend to be a celebrity and ss have to identify the celebrity.