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Skills	Strategies	Activities	Examples
1. listening	pre-listening	Discriminate sounds. Predict.	Tick the odd man out: bed-bet-bet. Look at headlines. Guess. Find general questions.
	while-listening	Comprehend.	Complete the grid. Fill in the missing words.....
	post-listening	Check.	Listen for answers to general questions. Read between the lines. Scan. Summarise. Extend notes to spoken reports.
2. speaking	imitation	Repeat along the speaker. All together.	Fill in gaps. Reorganise . Reconstruct . Transform . Invent . Practise . Play . *defective texts, wrong texts, disordered texts, new texts, "call my bluff".
	mimicry memorisation	Play roles.	Use role-cards. Use the different functions of " Saying 'Hello' ", "Introducing yourself", "Asking questions" and "Giving answers", "Saying 'Thank you' " and "Good bye"
	stating your opinion	Make a speech.	Use the different functions:1. delaying tactics, 2. explaining the problem, 3. stating different views, 4. stating your opinion, 5. summing up, 6. giving an outlook.
3. reading	pre-reading	Read quickly. Preview.	Guess the following word. (Cloze technique) Guess from the heading or an illustration.
	while-reading	Extract information.	Put the pictures into the right order. Find headings for different paragraphs.
	post-reading	Skim. Scan.	Take notes. Make flow-charts, time-line-displays. Practise cross-reading, with the help of structural grids like "gate", "lightning", "circle"
4. writing	story writing	Find an order Make a mind map	Fill in gaps. Reorganise . Reconstruct . Transform . Invent . Practise . defective texts, wrong texts, disordered texts, new texts, "call my bluff".
5. meta- strategies	organizing thoughts	Find the structure. Make mind maps.	Find the problem question and different headings to answer it. Find information in libraries, internet. Looking for material, sort it out and make it available.
	organising activities: partner work, group work, planning time, planning work, organising learning..	Prepare your desk. Prepare your books. Use methods of co-operation and dissent. Use classroom talk.	Make a list of several methods for different targets. Control their effectiveness. Discuss methods of organising work, ways of deciding on different methods: trial and error, competition. Discuss ways of presenting results. Divide your work. Use your time effectively. Understand the tasks of your exercises.
	organising vocabulary	File language, Find filing systems. Use your dictionary.	Find generic and subordinate words, functions. Collect useful expressions. Make your own dictionary, mind maps. Prepare helping materials: lists of vocabulary, lists of functions. Use the lists of abbreviations, phonetic symbols.
6. evaluation strategies	evaluating your work	Work out evaluation criteria together.	Make a list of rules, an evaluation board. Learn from mistakes and problems. Prepare your tests. Make a crib.

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Make a quiz, make a questionnaire and make a survey, recite a poem, make a video-play, make an audio-play, present a show, present a role-play

Make a brochure, a file, file-cards, posters, an exposition in the school hall, surveys, statistics, a chapter of a history book, cartoons, essays, a magazine, a resource book, a scrapbook, a diary, a documentation, a guide, a homepage in Internet, write letters or e-mails

a grammar exercise book, a book of rules, a book of functions

Present a parents' meeting and show what you've done at school

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