Producing language
Productive skills:speaking and writing
Grammar, vocabulary, sentence patterns...
controlled, less controlled, free
accurately have some choices free
focus on the form accurately and communicating
Activities
Controlled: copying words, drills, chants
Less controlled: role-play, info. gaps, gap-fills, surveys
Free: problem-solving, rank ordering, letter writing
Receptive skills:reading and listening skills
Reading for gist:
Multiple-choice Qs,T/F Qs
Reading for detail:
Jumbled pics, Jigsaw reading, table completion
Listening for gist, detail
for gist: T/F Qs, Multiple choice
for detail: Form-filling, table completion, jigsaw listening
Tips for using activities and tasks
Use linked activities:
Language-focused lessons:
presentation--controlled practice activities--freer practice activities--free practice activities
Lead-in--tasks--presentation--further tasks
Skills-based lessons:warmer/lead-in--comprehension activities--post-task activities
adapt your activities flexibly,
survey: find out info. from others activities helping organize and consolidate info.,
Problem-solving: learners work in pairs or groups to find the solution to a problem.
USE activities that help learners organise and consolidate info.: 1brainstorming, 2making mindmaps, 3categorisation, 4visualisation
1quickly think of ideas about a topic and note them down.
2making diagrams showing relationships between words.
3putting words into groups of the same feature.
4visualisation: building up a pic
Interaction patterns to plan activities
Form filling: individually, in pairs, in groups, mingling
ADD.
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