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Students’ directions: 
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Read the text carefully underline key points. 
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Listen to the audio recording carefully and correct the wrong points of the text and 
reconstruct the missing points also. 
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Stand up and dance under the music. 
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Pass the crisps pocket to each other while dancing. 
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Take a crisp out of the packet and answer it. 
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Be active and try to give the right answer. 

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Rationale: It is irrefutable that the activities that teachers employ in the classroom need to be 
supported by theoretical implications. They need to serve to meet the needs of students and facilitate 
them to learn the language effectively and interestingly. While doing this activity students address 
several reading strategies and techniques to accomplish this activity. One of them is the “skills-
based”(Bottom-up) approach. They need to read the text and underline the main points to reconstruct 
it by listening to the audio of the text. “In bottom-up processing, readers must first recognise a 
multiplicity of linguistic signals (letters, morphemes, syllables, words, phrases, grammatical cues, 
discourse markers) and use their linguistic data-processing mechanisms to impose some sort of order 
on these signals”(Dauglas Brown and Heekyeong Lee, 2015, p. 390). This reading technique helps 
students not only to improve their reading comprehension but also to develop their second language 
literacy. Ediger(2014) claims that both “skills-based”(bottom-up) and the “strategies-based”(top-
down) approaches are employed by second language teachers to improve the second language literacy 
of non-native learners. Moreover, as they need to identify the main points of the text, they use 
scanning techniques to quickly search for some particular piece or pieces of information. This 
technique facilitates students to extract specific information without reading the whole 
text. According to D.Brown (2015, p. 403-404), “Scanning is essential not only for academic English 
but also vocational and general English as we need to deal with genres like schedules, manuals, or 
forms”. In this case, selective listening is a very handy tool for them to accomplish the task 
successfully because this technique promotes students’ awareness to identify specific information 
like names, dates, certain facts, locations and other main points of the text. In addition, this activity 
helps students to develop speaking skills. They need to answer questions based on the reading text 
which give them a chance to speak in the target language as they can as possible to answer questions. 
Such kinds of questions are called “Responsive” which is the most effective type of classroom 
speaking performance. J. Richards (2008) says that A good deal of student speech in the classroom 
is responsive: replies to the teacher- or student-initiated questions or comments. These replies are 
usually sufficient and can be meaningful and authentic. Therefore, teachers should encourage their 
students to answer questions given by themselves or other students because this is a chance for them 
to activate general and linguistic knowledge and produce natural speech.