NSEC unit 1 and teaching the four skills

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NSEC (unit 1) and teaching the four skills

• Dr Dodie Brooks

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Skills

• 1 Reading
• 2 Listening
• 3 Speaking
• 4 Writing

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READING SKILLS

• Reading
• Skill 1 skimming ? prediction
• Skill 2 scanning ? m/c
• Skill 3 careful reading ? questions
• Skill 4 analysis ? task
• Using the skills
• 1 task solve a problem in groups
• 2 discussion groups or class
• 3 debate class

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Skill 1 skimming

• Purpose to predict the content
• identify main idea
• Method
• 1 Before reading look at the title pictures
• 2 Predict content skim to check

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Skimming ? main idea

• Teaching suggestions
• 1 Read the passage through quickly
• sequence (chronology of NZ M8 U1)
• sequence ? summary (Civil Rights M10 U3)
• 2 Discuss difficult concepts or ideas
• analysis (snake experiment M8 U3)
• analysis ? drawing conclusions
• (women authoresses M10 U5)

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Main Idea in SB

• Questions
• 1 What is the main passage about?
• 2 What five kinds of poems does the reading
  passage talk about? (M6 U2)
• Exercises
• Make a summary of each part of the passage (M5
  U2, M6 U3)
• Glance quickly at the magazine article and then
  answer the questions (M6 U4)

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Example
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Skimming ? genre

• Is it fiction?
• (creative and imaginative writing)
• Is it non-fiction?
• (factual writing)
• cultural information

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2nd reading scan

• Purpose ? look for particular information
• Questions like
• What time does the train leave?
• How tall was the man?
• True / False questions
• Charts

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3rd reading careful

• Purpose
• understand new ideas
• learn new vocabulary
• find and use grammar

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1.1 Literal comprehension
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1.2 Inferential comprehension
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1.3 Discussion of ideas
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2.1 Highlighting

• How highlighting can be used
• 3 ways from best to least good
• best Ss use context
• 2nd Ss identify use dictionary
• 3rd T pre-teach some words

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2.1 Using the context

• 1 Underline any unknown words
• 2 Read the sentence. Example
• Make a list of establations why
• friends are important.
• Make a guess.
• Check with the dictionary.

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2.2 Developing a feel

• 1 Exercises
• words that take the place of said
• (M5 U2)
• 2 Collocations
• add a verb to a preposition (M5 U3)
• 3 Connections between words
• verbs, adjectives and nouns (M5 U5)
• prefixes and suffixes (M5 U1 WB)
• idioms (M5 U4)

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Example
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3.1 Find practise grammar
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3.2 Apply grammar
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Why are these best?

• active learning
• more likely to remember
• more motivating and empowering

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LISTENING SKILLS

• Predict the advice
• Listening 1
• Listening 2 main idea
• Listening 3 stop tape at 2 or 3 points ?
  identify details
• Do exercises in SB
• Listening 4 check answers

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SPEAKING SKILLS

• Speaking individual, prepared
• speech, report, no questions
• Discussion group work, interactive, questions
  and sharing ideas (TASK)

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Organisation

• 2-steps
• (1) pairs (2) fours
• most efficient for oral practice
• learn to negotiate opinions
• arrive at a consensus

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Example
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Teachers Role

• provide context for issue
• keep students on task
• act as a resource and encourage
• ask Ss to report back to the class

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Combining listening and discussion (1)

• for an issue
• no right or wrong answer
• quality of discussion most important
• M1 U1
• What was Miss Wangs advice?
• Do you agree with it?

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Combining listening and discussion (2)

• to develop understanding
• of motives and intentions
• of character and personality
• limitations on actions
• M1 U1
• Why do you think Miss Wang suggested that?
• What would you suggest?

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WRITING SKILLS

• 1 Class discussion look at the model or reading
  passage
• 2 Work in pairs
• brainstorm ideas
• make a list of ideas
• put them in a logical order
• write the first draft

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Teaching skills writing (2)

• 3 Correct 1st draft in pairs
• swap writing with partner
• correct the writing (content, verbs, punctuation,
  spelling)
• swap back explain reasons for changes
• write final draft

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Im back in Nanjing now. My hometown of Jiangsu
Province. Climbing a high hill you see the
resting place of great leader of China. We have
the big lake and river but no sea. Its cool
here. Thank you for me staying with you.
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Im back in Nanjing now. My hometown of Jiangsu
Province. Climbing a high hill you see the
resting place of great leader of China. We have
the big lake and river but no sea. Its cool
here. Thank you for me staying with you.
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• I have just returned to Nanjing,my hometown in
  Jiangsu Province. If you climb one of our local
  hills you will discover the resting place of one
  of the great Chinese leaders. Nanjing also has a
  magnificent lake and river but is not near the
  sea. The weather is cool here now.
• Thank you for letting me stay with you.

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Thank you!

• Any questions
• dodie2000uk_at_yahoo.co.uk