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TKT Module 1 Revision: Receptive skills

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Receptive skills

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There are two receptive skills.
What are they?

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What does text staging mean?
Give an example.
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What information can be got by looking at the layout of a text?
Give an example.
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If we are trying to understand someone giving us spoken directions to the airport or reading the instructions for a new computer program, what kind of listening and reading are we doing?
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If we are at a train station and want to catch a train to Margate, how do we listen when we hear the announcer's voice?
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What is backchannelling?
Give two examples of the language we might use for it.
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If you are looking at a recipe to see how long to cook something for, what are you doing?
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Define and give an example of skim reading.
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What does bottom-up processing mean and how is it different from top-down processing?
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That's the end.

How did you do?
If you are not happy that you can answer all these questions, go back to the course and do the receptive skills section again.

Now you can go on.  Select the revision section you want to do from this menu.

the Module 1 revision index grammar lexis
phonology functions receptive skills
productive skills motivation exposure to language and focus on form
the role of error differences between L1 and L2 learning learner characteristics
learner needs presentation techniques and introductory activities types of activities and tasks
assessment types and tasks