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The document discusses language skills and subskills for teaching. It provides teacher comments on dealing with language skills in class and asks the reader to agree or disagree. It also matches definitions of language subskills to the subskill terms and connects the subskills to main language skills like reading, listening, speaking and writing.

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Workshop Language Skills TKT - STUDENTS'

The document discusses language skills and subskills for teaching. It provides teacher comments on dealing with language skills in class and asks the reader to agree or disagree. It also matches definitions of language subskills to the subskill terms and connects the subskills to main language skills like reading, listening, speaking and writing.

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Workshop

Describing language skills and subskills –

TASK 1) Below, there are some teacher’s comments about dealing with language
skills in the classroom, do you agree or disagree with them?

1 Teachers can help students read a text by reading it aloud while they follow in their
books.

2 There are no major differences between how we read in our mother tongue and
how we read in a foreign language.

3 To understand a reading text, you have to read and understand every word in it.

4 When doing listening comprehension in class, I prefer to read the transcript to


students rather than use a recording. This way I can speak slowly and pronounce
words carefully.

5 I always give the students a copy of the transcript I’m going to read so they can
follow it while I’m reading.

6 I never use passages for listening comprehension which have unknown words.

7 Writing is more or less the same as speaking. I don’t think there are any particular
things to teach students.

8 I always give my students a model or example text to copy from when we are doing
writing in class.

9 Writing lessons are boring – just sitting and watching students write is not
interesting.

10 Doing a speaking lesson is easy. You don’t even have to prepare!

11 I don’t think there is much value in doing speaking activities in class. Students can
talk to each other in breaks or at lunchtime.

12 Students don’t like talking to other students because their English isn’t very good.
They prefer talking to the teacher.
TASK 2) Match the terms with the definitions of the subskills.

DEFINITIONS SUBSKILLS

1. to listen to or read a text in order to understand most of a)editing


what it says or particular information

2. to guess the meaning of an unknown word by using the b)paraphrasing


information in a situation and/or around the word to help

3. to listen and write down ideas from the text in short c)notetaking
form

4. to read a text quickly to get a general idea of what it is d) intensive


about listening/reading

5. to read a text in order to check whether there are any e)listening/reading


mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation etc. for gist/global
understanding

6. to read or listen and to focus on how language is used f)using interactive


in a text strategies

7 to shorten or change or correct the words or content of g)deducing meaning


some parts of a written text to make it clearer or easier from context
to understand

8. to understand the general meaning of a text or a h)skimming


recording, without paying attention to specific details

9. to decide how a writer or speaker feels about i)predicting


something from the way that they speak or write, rather
than from what they openly say or the words they use

10. to use clues like headlines or pictures or general j) scanning


knowledge about the text or topic to make it easier to
understand what you read or hear

11. to read a text quickly to pick out specific information, k)summarising


e.g. finding a phone number in a phone book

12. to use strategies when speaking to keep people l)listening/reading for


involved and interested in what is said or to keep detail
communication going, e.g. eye contact, use of gestures

13. to take out the main points of a long text, and rewrite or m)inferring
retell them in a short, clear way attitude/feeling/mood

14. to say or write something that has been read or heard n) proofreading
using different words

TASK 3) Which of the subskills in Task 2 are connected to each of the main skills (reading, listening,
speaking, writing) in the table below? Some of the subskills may be connected to more than one
main skill.

MAIN SKILL SUBSKILL


Reading

Listening

Speaking

Writing

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