This document provides guidance on how to teach four key language skills: speaking, writing, reading, and listening. For each skill, it outlines the pre, while, and post stages. Some shared steps across skills include motivating students, introducing new vocabulary, modeling techniques, providing feedback and correcting mistakes, and incorporating games or activities. The document stresses the importance of clear goals, preparing students with necessary context and vocabulary, checking comprehension throughout, and focusing on both fluency and accuracy.
2. HOW TO TEACH SPEAKING
PRE WHILE POST
- Make sure students
know why they are
going to do the
activity.
- Motivate students.
- Teach them new
words by minimal
pairs.
- Teach some
phonetics
transcriptions
providing
disctionaries.
- Let the students learn
different accents.
- Imitations drills.
- Tongue twisters.
- Role plays.
- Debates
- Focus and check
fluency and accuracy.
- Give the students the
chance to initiate oral
communication
- Provide feedback
- Show correct forms of
pronunciate sounds.
- Correct mistakes
3. HOW TO TEACH WRITING
PRE WHILE POST
- Teacher reads about
what the students
have to write about.
- Encourage students
to think critically about
the topic.
- Modeling: students
show what they have
done.
- Pair sharing: avoid
individual work.
- Drafting: students
write sentences to
create a paragraph.
- Revising: teacher
check errors from the
drafting
- Editing: students
correct mistakes
made in the drafting.
- Publishing: students
show what they have
done and share with
their partners.
- Correct mistakes
- Check tasks and
solve doubts.
- Give feedback about
common mistakes.
4. HOW TO TEACH READING
PRE WHILE POST
- Principal goal:
motivate students, get
them interested in the
topic, make them
participate.
- Make the students
predict.
- Show or teach the
keywords that are
important for the text.
- Introduce the topic of
the reading.
- Top and down
reading: first reading
alone and in silence,
they scan the text,
getting the general
idea of it.
- Second reading:
specific information.
- They answer the
excercises,teach
lexic,vocabulary ,
grammar,
pronunciation.
- Text no longer than 10
lines.
Teacher:
- Summarize
- Check the tasks and
correct mistakes.
- Solve doubts.
- Ask for opinions about
the text.
- Include ludic activity
(e.g. soup letter, cross
word puzzle, videos,
etc.)
- No new information.
5. HOW TO TEACH LISTENING
PRE WHILE POST
- Principal goal:
motivate students.
- Contextualization:
make sure your
students know what
they are listening for.
- Preparation: ask
questions to check
students
comprehension.
- Check for any
keywords.
- General listening:
students listen once to
get general ideas.
- Check understanding.
- Second listening:
listen by chunks to get
specific information.
- Peer checking:
students check their
answers with their
partners.
- Common checking:
check the answers
with the whole class.
- Teach lexic, grammar
and pronunciation.
- An evaluation of the
work.
- Discussion about the
topic and students
reactions.
- Focusing students on
linguistic features of
the listening.
- Develop their
knowledge of
language.
- Ludic activity with
connected with that
has been already
seen.