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Teaching Receptive Skills requires an interplay of language knowledge, text knowledge and student needs and interest. The first one is needed in order to select appropriate materials that will match the language lesson. The next, so that there will be a lot of engaging points for an in- depth discussion and so the teacher could answer students' questions. Upon finding interesting material that will motivate student's to read, a teacher can also build up on this topic and use it with other language lessons. Vocabulary before and during reading must also be grasped very well by the teacher, in order to explain best to the students. Lastly, student's reading and listening preferences, abilities, age groups and relevance to culture should also be given importance. The beauty of teaching receptive skills is the large body of visual, audio and audio-visual materials that are very well-written and made. It can spark a genuine love for English language, learning which make for great motivation. Mixing purpose and pleasure in language learning need not be a bad thing.
