LANGUAGE SKILLS
TYPE SKILL DESCRIPTION
 (SPEAKING) It comprises two pivotal
aspects: Spoken interaction
which involves a learner having
a conversation with other
interlocutors. That is to say,
listening, interpreting a
message. And interacting again
to keep the flow.
Secondly, spoken production is
concerning speak with oneself
or in other words, to address
to many people in a lecture or
in other activities.
To make a distinction between
writing and speaking is that
speaking calls for a more
sophisticated words and
structures whereas speaking is
flexible as people can repeat
words or use wordiness to get
ideas across.
STRATEGIES
- Pair group to work
questions and
answers.
- Guessing from
context by looking
at pictures.
- To bridge the gap
between culture and
language, it is vital
to use books related
to an English
speaking country
and make a
comparison to what
is happening in
Colombia concerning
values, believes and
so forth.
- Express a short
story or anecdote.
- Act out a previous
reading by drawing
on key words and
phrases.
- Make a brief
exposition of famous
people.
- Make students
speak
spontaneously as
opposed to writing.
- Depending the level
of the group, the
teacher must work
with students on
debates, so they can
arm themselves
with specific
information.
 - Teachers elicit
information on
students as to how
they can describe
things. The ideal
thing is to provide
short utterances.
- The teacher should
not force the
students to speak.
He must encourage
them to feel free to
commit mistakes as
it is a natural part of
the process

- Write a well-
 (WRITING) This skill is one of the toughest organized definition
for teachers as it important to of things. For
take into account some instance, describe
aspects. what a house,
school, park,
- Teachers must know supermarket is.
what level students - Write a daily routine
have. for basic students
- They need to supervise by using present
the students simple
intensively. - Write a resume of a
- The teacher must create movie.
an activity which make - Write a biography of
students keen on a famous person.
learning. - Write a letter.
- Write a story by
All in all, in order for students using some cohesion
to develop interest, the words such as,
educator must put them works firstly, secondly and
that students will need to do in finally.
normal life. By way of - Work in building
example: To write a letter to a compound
friend, a letter applying for a sentences by using
scholarship at university, to “FANBOYS”, for,
write a report and so forth. and, nor, but and
so.

- Answer questions in
writing regarding
topics students like.
- Write a letter to a
friend
 -Write a memorable
moment a student went
through.
-Describe a city by using
some specific words such
as: peaceful, seedy, and
shabby dodgy,
cosmopolitan, quaint,
lively.
- In an intermediate level,
tell students to write
stories whereby they
eliminate the word “very”
and use both descriptive
adjectives and adverbs
such as: content, stunning,
gorgeous, dull, starving,
parched, scorching,
scalding, highly, widely,
greatly, substantially,
solely, wholly,
tremendously, etc.

- Every single activity

must be supervised
by the teacher to
help students out.

Listening is for many teachers

 (LISTENING) the most important but - Audiolingualism
underrated skill as some - Listen to songs and
people believe that it will come highlight tenses
along automatically; However, such as: present,
it calls for effort and takes past, future, simple,
quite some time. present perfect etc.
- Task based
According to Nunan (2001) approach.
there are reciprocal listening - Botton up
whereby the learner is having processing. “Listen
an interaction with another to specific details
person and non-reciprocal, and - Top down
it is when the learner is processing listen to
substantially listening to what the main idea.
others talk in the radio. - Listen and complete
the story, song.
Moreover, listening skill - Bring, read and
embraces of three stages: analyse short
Prelistening readings, which
Whilelistening students have
Postlistening previous knowledge.
 Although it takes quite some - Listening to an
time enhance listening skills audio as much as
because of the aforementioned possible to mimic
aspects, it worth doing because intonation and
when improving in these stress put in some
aspects, people s English skills words.
are more noticeable. - Listen and watch
videos related to
and English
speaking country
and make a
comparison with
what happen in our
country in terms of:
Behaviour, habits,
table manners,
- Listen for gist and
tell the students to
take into
consideration
content words such
as: nouns,
adjectives or verbs
so they can have a
better perspective.
- Note taking compels
students to be
wholly focused.
They must use
arrows with key
words.

- Lyrics training is
way that involves
students to listen to
a song and fill in
the gaps left.

 (READING) According to Ivancic and

Mandic (2014), there are two - Educational Video
kinds of reading, extensive and games could be
intensive. To begin with, keen of interest.
extensive is when a learners
read something they like. On - Write on the board
the contrary, intensive is an the words that
activity proposed by the students are not
teacher. pronouncing
On the other hand, reading accurately.
efficiently involves skimming
and scanning. The first aspect
is substantially related to have
an idea of what the reading is - Skimming technique
about whereas scanning is obtain general
regarding specific details. information.
- Scanning technique
to get specific
information.
- Push students to
read a passage in a
short amount of
time
- Make students read
classic works or
literature according
to their level.
- Help students with
the unknown
vocabulary although
it is recommendable
to tell them to guess
from the context.
- If a reading has
previous images,
students could have
a better grasp of
what they are going
to read later
- Work on basic
readings and
highlight the key
words and phrases.
- In an intermediate
level, the teacher
could work a
reading with
students, and stop
them after reading
some sentences.
This is in order to
ask the students
what they
understood from the
reading.
 ACTIVITIES

SKILL DESCRIPTION OF MATERIAL

THE ACTIVTY
Guessing from the Context and a Below
performance of the reading.
(SPEAKING)
First off, It is a book concerning
bridging the gap between
language and culture. One of the
strategies is to make students
speak by analysing images, thus
can guess the context of what
whey will read next.

- After speaking and

reading, the students will
act the reading out by
taking into account key
words, and expressions
from the reading.

-They are free to improvise and

use their own vocabulary.
-The Teacher will provide a
feedback at the end of the
activity or during the activity if
necessary.

Having a good grasp of the four

kinds of sentences is a pivotal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUMVStsshPY
(WRITING) aspect when it comes to
conveying ideas in a more
 natural way. If students learn to
employ some connectors, they https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urr55rAreWc
will not feel uneasy writing a
short story, a letter or an essay.

-The teacher will get across the

use of connectors such as:
FANBOYS, especially for, but and
so to connect two ideas.
If the students have more level,
the teacher will go over more
linking words. For instance:
moreover, as a result, therefore.

The idea is that as soon as the

explanation is finished, students
write a letter, or describe a
situation or any king of reading
according to the level of the
course.

This activity is in order to do

(LISTENING) something different and make https://es.lyricstraining.com/en/play/michael-
the class flexible. It has two buble/havent-met-you-yet-lyrics-in-
parts: spanish/HFPTX6wusF
First part:
If the class is composed of 20
-Students could work in groups
of five.
- The teacher will choose four
English songs that students
know.
- According to their level (basic
intermediate or advanced)
Students will have to fill in the
gaps that the songs has.
- The group that gets more
points will win and will receive
extra points in their final grade.

Second part
- The teacher will do an
English song context.
- He will choose a song. For
instance “happy” by
Pharrel Williams.
- Students will have it
prepared.
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 - The same groups of four
will go on working.
- The group that sings with
better intonation, tune
and pronunciation will win
extra points.

Those activities are

supposed to foster
collaborative work,
immersion in the
language by using
elements that are familiar
to students.

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The teacher will do a warm up, lab.com/collegemajor/collegemajorrd1.htm
(READING) and ask the students about what
will they do as soon as they
graduate from school. This is in
order to engage them in the
reading.
In order to carry out this activity,
It is necessary to have
computers.
- Students will read and
listen to a reading at least
15 minutes. As soon as the
time is left, students will
have done the following
steps:
- Skimming and scanning to
get the main idea and key
sentences.

- Every student strives to

read the best.
- The teacher can write on
the board the words that
are not well pronounced.
- The teacher elicit students
information from the
reading. Especially what
are key words and most
important sentences?