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Listening, Reading ,Speaking and Writing are basic communication skills necessary for effective communication. Reading and Listening are called Receptive skills and writing and Speaking are called Productive Skills. In this unit the Receptive skills are discussed. There are two reasons for reading and listening. One is for a Purpose and the other one is for entertainment.Reading and listening are not simply matters of the ears and eyes but also using our minds to literally understand words and to process them in our pre existent knowledgeto gain true understanding. Readers and listeners use number of specialist skills and their understand will depend on their expertise in areas like; a) Predictive skills b) Specific Information - scanning c) General idea - Skimming 4) detailed Information - Reading to understand in detail 5) Deduction from Context Teaching and learning of receptive skills will present a number of problems which has to be addressed. It can be with the language contained in the topic or task they are doing. By pre- teaching vocabulary and by the careful selection of the texts this problems can be solved to an extent. Teachers must be very careful in selecting the topic. It should be interesting. Creating interest among the students is very much needed. Otherwise they will not show any enthusiasm. The tasks set should be realistically achievable. This unit was really interesting .
