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How To Teach Listening and Reading
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Listening and reading: receptive skills
Getting the Most from Textbook Listening Activities
How to make listening activities in a coursebook effective and achievable.
Build a More Dynamic EFL Conversation Class
Ideas for bringing a speaking lesson to life.
Why don’t they understand?
Teaching Listening: Top Down or Bottom Up?
Two excellent articles by Sue Swift. Why do students find listening comprehension so difficult, even when the language is apparently within their grasp? What are the top-down and bottom-up approaches to teaching listening?
What Do We Test When We Test Reading Comprehension?
This short but informative essay describes the three levels of student comprehension of a text that teachers need to test – literal, interpretive and critical.
Planning a receptive skills lesson
How to plan a listening lesson
In this article Sue Swift gives advice for effective planning of a listening skills lesson.
Ideas for listening lessons
Teaching Listening: Study materials
An excellent resource with plenty of ideas, activities, recommendations and soundtracks for teaching listening to students of all levels.
English listening quizzes
Lots of listening tests and quizzes for your students with soundtracks.
Songs to help you teach
A fantastic collection of song handouts that you can use in your lessons – grouped by language point and topic. A variety of activities based on each song.
Dictation as a language learning device
This paper introduces dictation as a valuable language learning device and suggests ways for using it in an effective and interesting manner.
Ideas for reading lessons
Teaching Reading: Study materials
Strategies, exercises, ideas, quizzes and links for teaching reading to students of all levels.
Developing reading activities
How to select appropriate reading activities for your lessons.
A Fun Reading Quiz Game
A creative way to motivate students to read and sustain their interest in reading through a student-centred activity in the form or a quiz.
Skimming
Scanning
Tips, quizzes and worksheets for developing your students’ skimming and scanning skills. Play ‘Who killed Angela Spelling’, a scanning skills game.
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Listening and reading: receptive skills
Getting the Most from Textbook Listening Activities
How to make listening activities in a coursebook effective and achievable.
Build a More Dynamic EFL Conversation Class
Ideas for bringing a speaking lesson to life.
Why don’t they understand?
Teaching Listening: Top Down or Bottom Up?
Two excellent articles by Sue Swift. Why do students find listening comprehension so difficult, even when the language is apparently within their grasp? What are the top-down and bottom-up approaches to teaching listening?
What Do We Test When We Test Reading Comprehension?
This short but informative essay describes the three levels of student comprehension of a text that teachers need to test – literal, interpretive and critical.
Planning a receptive skills lesson
How to plan a listening lesson
In this article Sue Swift gives advice for effective planning of a listening skills lesson.
Ideas for listening lessons
Teaching Listening: Study materials
An excellent resource with plenty of ideas, activities, recommendations and soundtracks for teaching listening to students of all levels.
English listening quizzes
Lots of listening tests and quizzes for your students with soundtracks.
Songs to help you teach
A fantastic collection of song handouts that you can use in your lessons – grouped by language point and topic. A variety of activities based on each song.
Dictation as a language learning device
This paper introduces dictation as a valuable language learning device and suggests ways for using it in an effective and interesting manner.
Ideas for reading lessons
Teaching Reading: Study materials
Strategies, exercises, ideas, quizzes and links for teaching reading to students of all levels.
Developing reading activities
How to select appropriate reading activities for your lessons.
A Fun Reading Quiz Game
A creative way to motivate students to read and sustain their interest in reading through a student-centred activity in the form or a quiz.
Skimming
Scanning
Tips, quizzes and worksheets for developing your students’ skimming and scanning skills. Play ‘Who killed Angela Spelling’, a scanning skills game.