“The procedure for teaching receptive skills generally starts
with a lead-in. This is where we engage students with the topic of
the reading and we try to activate their schema (plural schemata)
(…). This is the knowledge that allows many British, American,
West Indian, Pakistani and Indian people (for example) to make
sense of headlines like England in six-wicket collapse (a
reference to the game of cricket), whereas many Canadians
would instantly understand what it means to be sent to the penalty
box and why being sent there might give another team a power
play (both terms come ice hockey, Canada’s national sport)”.
(HARMER, J. The Practice of English Language Teaching.
4 th Ed. Essex, England: Pearson, 2007, p. 271).