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Friday:

Which skills do you know?

This was the first question in this lesson. As we can se, we were talking about skills, and we were learning about new things, different that all the aspects that we were accustomed to hear and learn about English skills. 

It was interesting to learn the different types of skills: When we talk about the receptive and productive skills we talk about the direction of the communication, and when we talk about the written and oral skills we talk about the way of communication.

I've learnt that, as teachers, we have to use, if it is possible, all the skills togethers, transversally, think activities that keep all the skills in work. It's relevant that when we use the skills with our pupils we take care of the level and age of the students, because there is a fixed and natural way to use them. 

We also talked about one aspect that I've never heard about, the SILENT WAY. It's when a children never talks an writes, he's only receptive, but then one day they start talking and producing.

If a children it's in this silent process, we have to be respectful with it, because is another way of learning and even if it seems he or she is not learning, he/she is doing it.

This process is called, as well, passive knowledge and is the opposite of active knowledge.

This lesson has been very useful for our future job as teachers!