Did you watch the first part of the Delta Module Two seminar that we posted last week? In it I argued that the common pre- while and post- approach to listening and reading was a useful, but not sufficient, strategy for teaching these skills. The seminar then argued that approaching the skills through focusing on the development of subskills is not only a necessary addition but, when the subskills overlap, also often allows us to integrate the teaching of the two skills.
In the second part of this seminar, after summarising the previous part, we look at a lesson that takes this approach, teaching the subskills of a) inferring non-explicitly stated meaning, and b) inferring the meaning of unknown words. It is based around some lesson materials which you can find here : Lesson materials
Click on the links (not the photo) to watch the recording of the seminar, which lasts about forty five minutes in total.
Thanks to Diana, Erica and Oana for giving their permission to use these clips.
We're now enrolling for all our online courses for the Cambridge English Delta Modules. As they are online, you can join us from wherever you are. See here (look at the left hand sidebar) for details of all the online courses we run. But if...
- you took a Module One course a while ago but feel the need of a refresher before the June exam..
- you've been self-preparing for Module One but feel you need help with the exam preparation..
- you took Module One in December (or previously) but failed and need to retake in June..
... check out our online Module One Revision and Exam Preparation Course. Depending on how intensively you want to work and your other commitments you can spread it over twelve weeks (starts 11 March) or six (starts April 22nd).
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