Productive and Receptive Skills

The PPP approach is used to facilitate student use of the language and to help the student reach a point of independent use of English.

• True

• False

The Presentation stage of PPP often involves the use of eliciting

• True

• False

Dictation is an example of product or controlled writing integrating all of the skills.

• True

• False

Speaking and writing are both classified as

• communication systems

• language systems

• productive language skills

What is the goal of our work in class?

• To make the teacher explain to the best of her/his ability

• To make the students do the presenting

• To make the students as independent of the teacher as possible

Teaching speaking requires

• just a general topic and the students will take over the conversation from the teacher

• presentation but no real production

• careful planning beforehand

Pre-teaching of the material in a conversation class is part of

• Presentation

• Practice

• Production

Games

• are good for a change of pace but not serious work in class.

• are good because students lose their inhibitions in speaking.

• are never used in a serious class.

When working with receptive skills materials, the teacher needs to be sure to

• teach vocabulary at the conclusion of the exercise.

• teach vocabulary initialy through the detailed questions

• pre-teach the vocabulary.

Gist questions

• are used for detailed comprehension work.

• are used for general comprehension work.

• are used in reading but not listening work.