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In order to have a balanced lesson, we should always try to incorporate the four basic language skills in it. These skills are: Listening and reading (receptive skills) and speaking and writing (productive skills). We listen and read for various reasons, we can classified these reasons the following way: for a purpose and for entertainment. Depending on these, listeners and readers use specialist skills as predictive skills, scanning, skimming, reading/listening detailed information, and deduction from context. As teachers, we need to make sure our students use these skills in different contexts in order for them to learn how to do them and be able to utilize them in the real world. We will encounter some problems while teaching receptive skills; for that reason, it is important to choose material that motivates the students, pre-teach difficult vocabulary or structures needed, vary type of material, use the material to teach different skills, use realistic comprehension tasks that helps understanding. By following these key elements, we will minimize students' problems while learning the receptive skills.
