UNIT 17 PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Activites and tasks provide students help and practice the language because if they do not practice the language they lose the interest in learning. Also, teachers have to mix a lot of activities that involves the four principal skills and pay attention when it will be useful according their needs and levels that they are, it is imposible to use sophisticated activities with children or teenagers, the use of interaction patterns is an option to be in contact  with them. Furthermore, teachers have to develop communicative activities (Speaking and writing), it shows if they use the language in a good or bad way for that reason this unit presents us three types of activities like controlled, freer and free.

Controlled activity is where the teacher practice with them accuracy because she helps them to avoid mistakes for example through drills, choral drills, individual drills.

Freer activity is less controlled from the teacher and she tells them what kind of vocabulary they need to use in a role play for example.

Free activity is when they are able to produce the language accurately they can complete task or fill information. Moreover, we can do free activities with big class where they write something about the nature, vacations, tourist places where they can go because they develop their skills.

I would like to use with my students a great variety of activites suh as funny stories, songs, puppets, videos, drills. pictures, realia with all of them at the same time I will incentive and motivate them to acquire the language in a wonderful way.

For more information here you have some links:

Iteslj.org

Saricoban & Metin - Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar (TESL/TEFL)

Iteslj.org,. (2014). Saricoban & Metin - Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar (TESL/TEFL). Retrieved 5 December 2014, from http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Saricoban-Songs.html

Education.com

Authentic Tasks | Education.com

Education.com,. (2014). Authentic Tasks | Education.com. Retrieved 5 December 2014, from http://www.education.com/reference/article/authentic-tasks/

FEAweb

Time-on-Task: A Teaching Strategy that Accelerates Learning

FEAweb,. (2014). Time-on-Task: A Teaching Strategy that Accelerates Learning. Retrieved 5 December 2014, from http://feaweb.org/time-on-task-a-teaching-strategy-that-accelerates-learning