communicative competencies

1. Interactive and the
Communicative
Competences

2. DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE
COMPETENCES

3. One of the most
characteristic features of
communicative language
teaching is that it pays
systematic attention to
functional as well as
structural aspects of
language, combining
these into a more fully
communicative view.

4. Communicative
Competences
•Linguistic Competences
•Sociolinguistic
Competences
• Pragmatic Competences.

5. STRUCTURE
• Read and listen
• Vocabulary
• Pronunciation
• Grammar
• Speaking
• Listening
• Portfolio
All the units have
Extra activities
-Culture Vulture
-Check it out
-Interaction
-Skills4Real

6. Introducing the
context

7. Listening

8. Importance
of
Vocabulary
• Words are the
building blocks of
language.
• We learn words first
before they learn
grammar.

9. Focus on meaning and memory
– Connect words in word families
– Connect new words to previous words
– Teach a few words at a time
– Review and practice vocabulary
constantly
– Having fun helps students remember
But……How to teach
vocabulary?

11. Reading
Comprehension

15. Writing

16. • Teach the writing
process
– Encourage
students to
brainstorm
– Promote drafting
and re-drafting
– Encourage
students to revise
and edit
– Provide class time
for this process to
take place

18. My best friend lisa live in Chicago. His family is from
Colombia but she has been living there for about 20 years
ago. She likes going the cinema, that´s why we go there
the Sundays. Lisa´s father works with mine, and they are
very close friends. We together go to the movie usually.
We like to comunicate each other.
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19. Speaking

21. • Cannot sustain spoken interaction
beyond short segments.
• Frequent communication breakdowns
and misunderstandings.
• Lacks vocabulary needed to talk about
common topics.
• Poor Grammar and Pronunciation.

22. • increasing range of lexis
including lexical phrases and
fixed expressions;
• gaining greater control of
phonology
• getting a range of tasks and
opportunities
• exposure to spoken exchanges
of various genres, but
especially conversation
Improving speaking
abilities:

23. There is a
REVIEW
every TWO units

25. There is
SKILLS WORK
every FOUR
units

29. Special focus at the end of every unit

32. Technology

33. Interactive Technology
• Website –
http://interactive.cambridge.org
• DVD
• Testmaker Audio CD / CD-ROM
• Classware DVD-ROM

38. How to
access
the
website

39. Interactive DVD-ROM
Interviews
Talking heads
Interaction sections
Pronunciation sections

41. Testmaker Audio CD/CD-ROM
• Select questions from each unit
• Preview and customise the test
• A & B versions
• Printable answer sheet
• Separate audio CD

42. • Student’s Book and class audio
• Built-in answers
• Pronunciation and Interaction sections
from the DVD-ROM
Classware