Receptive+Skills

Receptive Skills
> || > MULTIPLE CHOICE Students get a task on the Internet Site. They listen to a story or a dialogue bearing some information about a few of the characters listed. First they choose the names mentioned (the number of people being stated). Then they do a multiple-choice task, choosing the right option out of three provided. > || - recognising and commenting on the focus grammar structures or vocabulary - multiple choice of heard/read words or grammar strucures - matching opposites, synonyms or paronymous words to the samples - completing the one character's lines of the dialogue when listening - correcting intended mistakes || * reading/listening to the authentic material (AM) on-line - multiple choice on the summary of the contents - the best tiltle multiple choice - feedback on the predictive task - subsequent discussion/debating is possible on the read/heard material || * reading/listening to the authentic material (AM) on-line
 * A list of exercises we use in class to develop receptive skills (listening and reading) || How the Web could be used to support these skills ||
 * * Prediction || * Looking at headlines on a news site on the Web, students could predict the story before reading the article.
 * Students could watch video with the sound off and predict what they are talking about.
 * Support the text with one or more pictures.
 * make a list of key words for predicting what the text can be about.
 * make a list of words and phrases to describe the picture for the text.
 * Freeze frame: at any stage during a video sequence we can freeze the picture, stopping the participants dead in their tracks, and ask the students what they think will happen next or what a character will say next. ||
 * * Reading for gist || * Give students an article to read on the Web in a short amount of time. Once they have finished they turn the monitors off and try and say what the article was about.
 * Read a review of a film on a website about films and decide if the review is favourable or not.
 * read the headlines of 2 or three articles and decide if they all match with the given topic.
 * Students scan and skim an on-line newspaper to find articles that will interest their partners and send it to their partners who will read and summarize the article.
 * Surfing the web on the certain topic to be prepared on it (the list of sites should be given) It can also be set as homework. ||
 * * Reading for detail || * Students have a list of people who want to go on holiday. They have to find appropriate hotels on the Web according to information given about the people.
 * Match the people from the list with their interests/favourite places to visit.
 * Answer the questions with multiple choice
 * Jigsaw reading tasks
 * 21st century news/ hall of fame - brainstorm people to go into 5 categories, e.g. leaders, entertainers, business Titans, thinkers and heroes (prediction), then check predictions (e.g. []), then choose some real celebrity for a class presentation
 * * Listening for gist || * Students listen to news story from Yahoo or BBC and write a summary.
 * listen and pick up and show the correct picture.
 * * Listening for detail || * Students put details of a song in the order they hear them [|http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-spies.htm]
 * listen to the song and match the pictures
 * Use the map of a certain area. Listen to the instructions and follow the route on the map.
 * The children listen to the song and do some actions (example: wave or clap) if they hear a certain word during the song.
 * Students listen to the song or story and correct the mistakes in the lyrics or story given. ||
 * * Recognising function or discourse patterns
 * doing exercises on-line or on the worksheets while reading/listening to AT ||
 * * Deducing meaning from context
 * doing exercises on-line or on the worksheets while reading/listening to AM
 * reading the comments in chat rooms on the topic
 * video conference (discussion) on-line, writing comments on reading ||