Speaking is a productive skill because it involves using speech to communicate meanings to other people.
Is Speaking a productive or a receptive skill?
100
It involves responding to language and also making sense of the meaningful sounds of language.
What does listening involve?
100
Writing is a productive skill. This means writing involves producing language, communicating a message by making signs on a page.
Is writing a receptive or productive skill?
100
Preteaching vocabulary, gist, let them predict the content and focus on the topic.
What is an lead-in activity for reading?
100
It helps to combine and organise language.
What is grammar?
200
These are activities in which the learners are required to repeatedly use the language that they have just been taught. They make up a large part of speaking practice.
What are controlled practice activities?
200
Listen for gist
Specific information
Infer attitude
Listen intensively
What are four subskills of listening?
200
1. Getting ideas
2. Planning/organising ideas
3. Writing the first draft (=first version)
4. Editing the content of the text
5. Proofreading
6. Re-drafting (=writing the final version)
What are the different stages of the writing process?
200
It only makes sense after they understood a text.
When does reading aloud make sense?
200
They are words which have the same or a smilar form in two languages but a different meaning.
Why are false friends so important in language teaching and learning?
300
Either fluency or accuracy
On what do you focuss for giving marks?
300
You should play it at least two times and stop it during the records. For the first record they should listen for gist and in the second record they should do specific tasks.
How often should you play records?
300
You could either concentrate on accuracy or communicating your ideas.
On what can you concentrate while writing?
300
Coherence is about the sense connection between two sentences.
Cohesion is about the grammatical links between the sentences.
What is the difference between coherence and cohesion?
300
Because they can't use the grammar if they don't get the opportunity to speak and use the grammar. Communication is the main purpose of language.
Why shouldn't you only teach roules and terms?
400
1. Lead-in = introduction of the topic and focus on the new language?
2. Practice activities or tasks = controlled or free activies in which learners have the opportunity to use the new language.
3. Post-task activities = free speaking activities and/or work on the language
How do you plan a pattern for a speaking lesson?
400
It have to be authentic topics. It has to be a part of each child's life.
What kind of listening should you play for the children?
400
They need to know the reason for writing, the audience, the content and the register style.
What do they have to know before they start writing?
400
If you scann a text you read for specific information.
If you skimm a text you read for gist.
What is the difference between scanning and skimming?
400
1. Make students aware of structures and practice them.(for example the position of the verb in a sentence)
2. Teach them grammar rules and grammatical terms (for example the -s in 3.P singular)
What are the two ways teachers can teach grammar?
500
things that are memorised
What does learning by heart mean?
500
It involves important vocabulary, activate knowledge of the world, and you should give the children the opportunity to guess what the task is all about.
What involves the pre-teach activity?
500
Copying, Gap-filling, Sentence transformation exercises, dividing texts into paragraphs, correct errors in texts.
What are helpful activities for the writing process?
500
You could do activities asking learners to talk about how the topic of the text relates to their own lives or to give their opinions on something in the text. These activities require learners to use some of the language they have met in the text.
What kind of post-task activities to you know?
500
It's important to do task based learning. For example you do a story telling and include some grammar part.