ELT365 · Day 182 — What Is a Productive Skill?
Idea — Productive skills are speaking and writing — language goes out. Learners encode meaning and send it, rather than decode incoming text. Example — A…
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ELT365 · Day 181 — Month 6 Review — Receptive Skills
Idea — Review the core terms from Days 152–180. Check your understanding before moving to productive skills next month. Example — Can you name the difference…
ReadELT365 · Day 178 — Inferring Meaning from Context
Idea — Inferring meaning — working out what is not stated — is a higher-order reading and listening skill. It is trainable, not innate. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 176 — Intonation Carries Meaning
Idea — Falling intonation signals completion or certainty; rising intonation signals a question, doubt, or incompleteness. Teaching this stops learners misreading tone. Example — ‘That’s fine’…
ReadELT365 · Day 175 — Note-Taking as a Listening Task
Idea — Structured note-taking — a half-completed grid or diagram — gives learners a purpose and a pencil while listening. Blank paper is harder. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 173 — Listening in Chunks
Idea — Breaking a longer recording into sections and pausing to predict what comes next builds active listening — it is not cheating. Example — After…
ReadELT365 · Day 172 — The One-Listen Gist
Idea — Learners should hear a listening text once for gist before any detail work. Repeated listening without a task trains dependence, not skill. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 171 — Features of Spoken Language
Idea — Spoken language is full of false starts, fillers, contractions, ellipsis, and overlap. Listening tasks must reflect this — not clean written English read aloud.…
ReadELT365 · 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…
ReadELT365 · 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…
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