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Category Archives: skills
Some more speaking activities
Do you teach speaking with few or no materials? Here are some speaking activities that you can try with your classes.
Some speaking activities
Here are some more activities, some of which you can use with little or no prepararion. These are activities that I have found by dredging my computer directories. I there fore do not know the sources fo these activities. I would be happy to give any credit where it is due.
Lying: an icebreaker
air off students. [...]
TBL – a rough guide
This post is intended to give the most cursory idea about what exactly task based learning is.
Fifty Links for learners
Here is a selection of links for learners to use for their own language learning purposes. There are links to resources under the following categories:
language links
topics: Texts to read and listen to, pronunciation practice, spelling practice, …
listening: over 400 activities.
native speaker: VOA Special English – limited to 1500 lexical items.
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Automaticity in reading
Following are a number of statements extracted from What Research Has To Say About Reading Instruction
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What is meant by automaticity and automatization?
automatic
largely or wholly involuntary, especially as with a reflex
acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously
automatize
to make automatic [noun derivations: automatization the process of making automatic; automaticity the state or condition of being automatic]
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Writing sub skills
1. Manipulating the script of the language: handwriting, spelling and punctuation.
2. Expressing grammatical [syntactic and morphological] relationships at the sentence level.
3. Expressing relationships between parts of a written text through cohesive devices [especially through grammatical devices such as noun-pronoun reference].
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Reading sub skills
1. Basic reference and information-finding skills [e.g. title, using contents page, index. footnotes, bibliography, chapter headings and sub-headings, chapter summaries]
2. Deducing meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through understanding word formation and contextual clues
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Reading – a list of text types
Reading narrative texts
Reading factual texts [such as descriptions, announcements, memoranda, advertisements, notices, reports, menus, and agendas]
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Teaching Speaking Tactics