ELT365 · Day 166 — True / False / Not Given
Idea — True/False/Not Given tasks include a third option for information absent from the text — a harder skill than True/False alone. Example — ‘The company was founded in 1990.’ If the text only says…
Category: Teaching Methodology
ELT365 · Day 165 — Writing a Detail Question
Idea — A good detail question targets specific, locatable information. The wrong answers must be plausible, not absurd. Example — ‘How many students passed the test?’ is specific. ‘What did the teacher do?’ is too…
ELT365 · Day 164 — Writing a Gist Question
Idea — A strong gist question has one correct answer that requires the whole text — not a detail pulled from the first line. Example — ‘Does the writer think social media is harmful?’ needs…
ELT365 · Day 163 — The Lead-In
Idea — The lead-in connects learners’ lives to the text before it appears. It activates schema, builds interest, and previews vocabulary through discussion. Example — ‘Have you ever moved to a new city? What was…
ELT365 · Day 162 — Pre-Teaching Vocabulary
Idea — Pre-teach only words that block comprehension of the task — not every unknown item. Over-teaching empties the lesson of thinking. Example — Before a text about emigration, pre-teach ‘visa’ only if that word…
ELT365 · Day 161 — Extensive Reading
Idea — Extensive reading means reading large amounts of easy text for pleasure or general comprehension — not stopping to analyse every word. Example — A B1 learner reading graded readers at their level for…
ELT365 · Day 160 — Intensive Reading
Idea — Intensive reading means reading closely for detailed understanding of vocabulary, grammar, and argument. It is slow, deliberate, and focused. Example — Reading a legal contract, noting every clause, is intensive reading at its…
ELT365 · Day 159 — Skimming
Idea — Skimming is reading rapidly for the general idea — a fast tour of the text, not detailed comprehension. Example — Running your eye over a newspaper article’s first sentence per paragraph gives you…
ELT365 · Day 158 — Scanning
Idea — Scanning means moving quickly across a text to find specific information without reading every word. Readers use visual cues: numbers, proper nouns, keywords. Example — Finding a phone number in a directory —…
ELT365 · Day 157 — The Detail Task
Idea — A detail task demands specific information — facts, figures, names, sequences. It comes after the gist task, never before. Example — ‘How much did the flat cost per month?’ is a detail question.…