Brainstorming: teacher asks his students about their prior knowledge Editing
about the topic using mind up, spider map, charts, asking Wh Qs, etc. Pick rondom
Planning: teacher and students identify the plan or outline. sentences
Drafting: teacher gives the students chance to write their first draft, Freewriting
writing all what comes to their mind. Picture
Revising: teacher gives to students a checklist to revise the content, prompts
Writing meaning of their production, the ideas if they are organized or not. Write a story
skills Publishing: students read their productions and they may put it in their
portfolios.
Fluency: is about how comfortable and confident you are in speaking
English. If you can speak for an extended period of time, that is an
indicator of strong fluency. It is also about showing a clear connection
between each point that you are trying to make. This skill means that
the listener can follow what you are saying and does not get lost.
Vocabulary. Of course, if you don’t have the words to say what you
want to say, then you cannot say it. Being a good speaker means
constantly growing you’re vocabulary. The more interesting words
you know, the stronger your speaking skills. The best way to grow
your vocabulary is to read in English and make a note of any new Sing the song
words that you encounter in a vocabulary notebook. Describe the
Speaking Grammar. The dreaded G word! Grammar does matter and the fewer picture
skills mistakes you make, the better your speaking skill will be. However, Story telling
do not worry about making mistakes either! A good speaker does not Short speeches
have to use perfect grammar. Certainly, though, it is a good idea to Explain a
make sure that you have mastered the major tenses. proverb
Pronunciation. is a complex area, with a lot of sub skills that can be Guess the word
practiced. The basic rule of thumb is that an average speaker can
speak and be understood. A skilled speaker can use the sub skills of
pronunciation to emphasise and make the communicative effect of
their speech more impactful. The sub skills of pronunciation include:
word and sentence stress, intonation, rhythm and the use of the
individual sounds of a language. A good way to practice your
pronunciation is to copy! Simply listen to how someone with good
pronunciation speaks, and try to imitate them as closely as possible
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Listening for gist: This is when we listen to something to get a general idea of Listening for
what it’s lyrics
out, of what’s being said. We don’t want or need to understand every word. Telphone
Example: Draw this
Listening to a summary of the day’s news on the radio. Summarize a
Listening for specific information: This is when we listen to something short story ,
Listening because we want to discover a particular piece of information. We know in Ted talks ....
skills advance what we’re hoping to find out. We can ignore other information Listen to
which doesn’t interest us. Example: listening to a weather report to find out dialogue
about the weather in your part of the country
Listening in detail: This is when we listen we listen very closely, paying
attention to all the words and trying to understand as much information as
possible. Example: a member of a jury listening to a statement from a
witness.
Guessing the meanings of Unfamiliar Words Brainstorming
Readers tackle unknown words in a text by trying to guess their meanings Discussion
from the context. It is not possible to look up the meanings of all unknown Introduce
words in the dictionary. If the reader attempts to do that the flow of reading vocabulary
is interrupted. However, this is possible only when the text does not have Video introduction
too many difficult words. BEP-Bigenning
Reading Skimming: 'Skimming' a text means going through it quickly to get an overall and End-
skills idea of the content. We are not interested in details or any specific Paragraph
information while skimming. Graphic orgnizers
Scanning: on the other hand involves searching the text for specific piece of Summary
information in which the reader is interested.
Note-making: is a sub-skill of reading that is highly useful for study purposes.
It involves understanding the organization of the text and being able to
identify the main points and the supporting details, in skeleton or outline
form.
