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This unit focuses on receptive skills reading and listening. Reasons for reading and listening ? For a purpose: This type of reading and listening takes place because it will help to achieve some particular goals. ? for entertainment : we listen to or read information because we fine it pleasurable or enjoyable in some ways. An example of such is reading a novel or listening to a joke Quiet often, our reading and listening maybe a mixed of the above. How we read and listen We see with our eyes and listen with our ears but there is more to it than that. our minds must not only be able to recognize and understand the words but also to grasp their overall meaning from a pre- existing knowledge of the world. Reading and listening are not simply matters of the eyes and ears, but also matters of using our minds literally understand words and process them in our pre-existence knowledge to gain true understanding. Reading and understanding and their understanding of the context will depend on their expertise in the following areas. ? Predictive skills. ? specific information-scanning ? general ideas and skimming ? detailed information deductive from context Problems with listening and reading The teaching and reading of receptive skills provide quiet a number of potentials which need to be addressed. Obviously the more language we expose the students to, the more they will learn. Fortunately, they are many ways of approaching language difficulty. ? pre-teaching vocabulary ? careful selection of text ? topics ? create interest ? tasks.3 Outline of a typical Receptive skills lesson(patchwork) is as follows ? engage ? study ? engage ? study ? activate ? study ? activate The bases keys to successful receptive skill lessons are; ? choose materials that interest or motivate the students ? build interest before reading or listening ? pre-teach complex vocabulary or structures of necessary, but don?t overdo it ? vary the type of material ? use the material to practice different skills ? use realistic comprehensive tasks that aid understanding ? incorporate activate phases that naturally leads on from the text Going through this unit, I have personally learned the reasons for reading and listening, how we read and listen and how to solve problems with listening and reading.
