ELT365 · Day 159 — Predicting before you listen or read
Idea — Prediction activates schema and creates a reason to engage. A two-minute lead-in — images, a title, one question — makes the whole listening or…
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ELT365 · Day 164 — Gist first, then detail
Idea — Stage listening from easy to hard: first play for gist, then replay for specific information or detail. Each pass has a different, narrower task,…
ReadELT365 · Day 156 — The detail task: the second pass
Idea — After the gist task, learners go back through the text for specific information. The detail task should be answerable only by close reading or…
ReadELT365 · Day 160 — Graded and authentic listening
Idea — Graded audio is scripted for a level; authentic audio is real-world speech. Authentic texts motivate and expose natural features, but you grade the task,…
ReadELT365 · Day 157 — Inferring meaning while listening
Idea — Speakers leave a lot unsaid; listeners infer attitude, relationship and intention from tone, stress and context. This sub-skill is often neglected but central to…
ReadELT365 · Day 156 — Listening for detail
Idea — Intensive or detailed listening targets precise meaning — exact words, grammar, attitude. It is demanding, so it usually comes last, after gist and specific-information…
ReadELT365 · Day 155 — Listening for specific information
Idea — Here learners scan a stream of speech for particular items — a price, a time, a name — and ignore the rest. The task…
ReadELT365 · Day 209 — Useful written feedback
Idea — Effective feedback is selective and forward-looking: praise something, target one or two priorities, and give a concrete next step. Covering a script in red…
ReadELT365 · Day 152 — Receptive skills: what listening really is
Idea — Listening is active meaning-building, not passive reception. Learners run two processes at once: bottom-up (decoding sounds and words) and top-down (using context and expectation…
ReadELT365 · Day 204 — Paragraphing and organisation
Idea — A paragraph holds one main idea, often with a topic sentence and support. Teaching learners to plan paragraphs before writing prevents the wall-of-text that…
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