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This unit identified that in order to make our lessons efficient, we have to utilize a wide variety of receptive and productive skill study activities. This unit focused on the receptive skills: reading and listening, and how best a teacher can prepare lessons involving them. I liked how the unit defined the reading specialist skills (predictive, scanning, skimming, detail reading, and deductive reading), which help us to understand different texts (purpose and entertainment) found in a variety of different sources (radio, tv, newspaper, social media, website, billboard, letter, magazine, manual). For listening, I liked how the unit emphasized that before engaging the students in a listening activity, it is good to define and practice specific vocabulary words found in the text/audio that the students may or may not know. The trick is finding the relevant vocabulary words. One thing I will be working on is making sure I pick a variety of topics (over a period of time) that will spark the interests of my students, ensuring everyone gets to read/listen to something they enjoy.
