Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

How can we integrate the four skills?
The essential form of integration is within the same medium (either oral or written), from receptive to productive skills.

	Receptive Skill		Productive Skill
Oral Medium	Listening	→	Speaking
Written Medium	Reading	→	Writing

In other words, we would use a listening text as a model for the students’ speaking, and a reading text as a model for the students’ writing. This is common practice among teachers, and we will call it simple integration. The information that the students get from the reading is useful in the oral activity, while the writing activity is based on information from the oral activity.
The fill-in-blanks activity that the students are asked to carry out in completing the dialogue is actually a form of reading comprehension. As the comprehension questions take the form of a realistic dialogue, the students can then practice their oral skills as well as their reading skills. The dialogue can then be used as a basis for the students’ own conversations.