7 metodika indd

Reading and Listening text types

The reading and listening texts in Teens’ English 7 are real life texts. There is a wide variety of text types: newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, extracts from dictionaries and encyclopedias, labels and packets, letters, radio broadcasts, live interviews, speeches at competitions, etc.

Integration of skills

In Teens’ English 7 the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing are taught in an integrated way. The reason is that there are few cases in real life when we do not talk or write about what we have read or when we do not relate what we have read to something we might have heard. Therefore we have tried to link different skills to each other through various activities such as:

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  reading and writing, e.g. reading and filling in the tables, writing summaries, writing an answer to a letter, writing about oneself, note making, writing questions, writing opinions, etc.
  
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  reading and listening, e.g. reading and checking the information through listening, matching text and opinions, etc.
  
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  reading and speaking, e.g. reading and answering questions, saying True or False information, discussing the information in the text, debating, etc.
  
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  listening and reading, e.g. listening and putting the texts in order, finding the required information in the text, etc.
  
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  listening and writing, e.g. listening and completing the missing information, completing tables, writing opinions, etc.
  
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  listening and speaking, e.g. listening and answering questions, discussing, etc.