ELT365 · Day 156 — The Gist Task
Idea — The gist task sets one global question, answered by reading or listening to the whole text once. It trains reading-for-the-main-idea, not detail. Example — ‘What is the writer’s main opinion?’ is a gist…
Category: Teaching Methodology
ELT365 · Day 155 — Schema Theory in Reading
Idea — A schema is a mental framework of existing knowledge. Activating schema before reading speeds up comprehension and reduces the cost of unknown vocabulary. Example — Discussing ‘airport security’ before a reading text pre-loads…
ELT365 · Day 154 — Bottom-Up Processing
Idea — Bottom-up processing builds meaning from individual sounds, words, and sentences upward — decoding first, inference second. Example — A learner hears ‘bi-cy-cle’ and constructs meaning phoneme by phoneme, then word by word. Try…
ELT365 · Day 153 — Top-Down Processing
Idea — Top-down processing means using prior knowledge, context, and prediction to understand a text. The reader or listener moves from the general to the specific. Example — Seeing the word ‘Menu’ on a card…
ELT365 · Day 152 — What Is a Receptive Skill?
Idea — Receptive skills are reading and listening — language comes in. Learners decode meaning without producing output, but active processing is still required. Example — A learner reads a news headline and extracts the…
Kids English · Lesson 09 — Things in My Classroom — Name What You See
Your classroom is full of English words: book, pen, pencil, desk, chair, board, door, window. Examples This is a book. That is a pen. The door is closed. The window is open. Practice Point to…
ELT365 · D181 — Month 6 Review — 30 Ideas for Your Next Receptive Skills Lesson
Idea — Thirty days, thirty tools. Choose three you haven’t used yet: a prediction task, a transcript comparison, or an extensive reading experiment outside class. Example — D155’s one-question gist rule + D165’s dictogloss +…
ELT365 · D180 — Building a Receptive Skills Lesson from Scratch
Idea — A solid receptive skills lesson: pre-task (schema activation) → gist task → detail or inferencing task → post-task (productive follow-up). Every stage has a purpose. Example — Topic — climate migration. Pre: discuss…
ELT365 · D179 — Adapting Authentic Texts Without Destroying Them
Idea — Authentic texts can be simplified without losing authenticity. Replace low-frequency vocabulary; keep the voice and argument. Don’t rewrite it as a coursebook text. Example — Replace ‘exacerbate’ with ‘make worse’. Keep the paragraph…
ELT365 · D178 — Discourse Markers: Signposting the Text for Learners
Idea — Discourse markers signal how ideas connect — contrast, addition, cause, result. Teaching them explicitly helps learners navigate long texts faster and understand lectures better. Example — ‘However’ signals contrast. ‘Therefore’ signals conclusion. ‘In…