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Apply Now!Home / TEFL Videos / TEFL Videos - Productive and Receptive Skills in the ESL Classroom - Receptive Skills - Avoiding Problems
So, some of the ways in which we can avoid these problems occurring in the first place is to reteach the vocabulary that's going to be required in the particular activity and the grammar. Now, having said this, it doesn't mean that if we think about a particular article that they're going to read or a listening activity that they're going to listen to. They don't have to know every single word in there but they do need to know a certain number of words in order to actually make sense out of it. Secondly, most of the materials that we'll be using for both reading and possibly for listening will be what's called an authentic material. In other words, it's a real piece of material from a newspaper or magazine that hasn't been created for a particular class and so we need a very careful selection of text in terms of what vocabulary is in there, what actual language uses in there and also the way in which has been written. So the careful selection text. We need to be careful about the choice topic. Is it something that our group is going to be interested in? Is something indeed that they're going to know anything about? One of the most fundamental things that you can do to avoid problems is to create interest before you start the actual lesson. It's very very difficult for students just to go straight into a reading or listening activity without any interest having been generated.
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This unit discussed a number of grammatical topics, beginning with modal verbs, then active/passive voice, and finally phrasal verbs. Modal and phrasal verbs are topics I teach often however, this unit provided me with a deeper understanding of the rules for using them. Active and passive voices I do not teach so often, maybe due to not understanding them enough to feel confident. The unit gave me some helpful information for understanding these better.This unit has equipped me with the knowledge of how to teach tenses relating to the future. I have learnt the different teaching techniques that are used to portray the English language in the future tense. I am able to distinguish between future simple, continuous form of the future, the perfect continously as well as the present simple, the going to tense. I understand when each tense is used as well as how to identify the mistakes that students make.
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