Module Eight

How to teach Reading and Listening skills (4-5 hrs approx)

Find out what's needed for productive reading and listening lessons using various media such as tapes, texts and recorded songs.

Real-life listening situations. For example, pronunciation - words are often pronounced differently from how they are written, e.g. "I'm going to..." becomes "I'm gonna..."
Stages in a listening and reading lesson. For example, the lesson should progress from overall understanding to detailed understanding
Different types of listening tasks such as filling in a timetable or chart, or answering true/false questions or statements
How to incorporate songs into listening lessons

Ideas for reading follow-up activities, for example, discussion/debate based on themes from the text
Additional activities for using with songs or texts before, during or after students listen to the song or read the text. For example:
Before - students brainstorm vocabulary which might be associated with the topic
During - cut and mix the lines of the text and students order the jumbled sentences
After - students write a reply to the author/singer

Three mini-task (not submitted to tutor)
Three tasks submitted automatically to tutor and returned to you marked within 24 hours (Monday to Friday):
1. List exercise
2. Questions
3. Writing - 200 words