The Online Course is broken down into ten different modules that can be completed in as short as two weeks or as long as six months. These modules are as follows: Module 1, Module 2, Module 3, Module 4, Module 5, Module 6, Module 7, Module 8, Module 9, Module 10

Four additional modules are also available. Teaching English to Young Learners, Teaching Business English, Teaching With Limited Resources , and Using Video and Audio in the TEFL Classroom.

Module 8

How to teach Reading and Listening Skills

Find out what’s needed for productive reading and listening lessons using various media such as tapes, texts and recorded songs.

Listening:
This section covers:

• Real-life listening situations. For example, pronunciation – words are often pronounced differently from how they are written, e.g. “I’m going to…” becomes “I’m gonna….”
• Stages in a listening and reading lesson. For example, the lesson should progress from overall understanding to detailed understanding.
• Different types of listening tasks such as filling in a timetable or chart, or answering true/false questions or statements.
• How to incorporate songs into listening lessons.

• Ideas for reading follow-up activities, for example, discussion/debate based on themes from the text.
• Additional activities for using with songs or texts before, during or after students listen to the song or read the text. For example:
• Before – students brainstorm vocabulary which might be associated with the topic
• During – cut and mix the lines of the text and students order the jumbled sentences
• After – students write a reply to the author/singer

1. List exercise
2. Questions
3. Writing - 200 words