ELT365 · 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 — Play a short recording. Ask: ‘What is the general…
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ELT365 · 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. Example — ‘I — yeah, so basically, he didn’t…
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…
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 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.…
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…
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 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…
English Tip · 05 — Connectors — Join Your Ideas Clearly
Connectors signal the relationship between ideas. Without them, sentences sit side by side with no logic. With them, your argument flows. Examples So = result: ‘I was tired, so I went to bed.’ However =…