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Date Posted: 16:02:40 07/23/03 Wed
Author: Adriana Sales Zardini
Subject: Task 12

Examine one textbook and choose a good communicative activity. Describe it and then classify that activity according to the types presented by Littlewood.

- I chose exercise number 11 – Unit 2, on page 25 from the book File Intermediate by Madeline McHugh.

Students have to work in pairs. The exercise is divided into three parts. In part A Student A read the first part of the story aloud. The story is “The Three Little Pigs”. In part B there two pictures from the story (the sequence from the story). Student B has to look at the pictures and tells story of the second little pig. In part C there three final pictures of the story and the students have to think what is going to happen. Then, one student has to tell the rest of the story.

I classified this activity as a Functional Communication Activity where students share and process information. This activity is similar to the “reconstructing story-sequences” proposed by Littlewood.

- I chose another exercise from File Intermediate, exercise number 3 – Unit 1 on page 7.

Students have to work in pairs in order to complete the information about Australia. There two texts, one on page 7 and other on page 158. The texts are exactly the same, but they have some words deleted from it. And the missing information is different in each text. Student A reads the text on page 7 and student B reads the text on page 158. Then one has to ask questions to complete the text like: “what’s the population of Australia?’ or “What’s the climate in the north of Australia like?” and so on.

I classified this activity as a Functional Communication Activity where students share information with restricted cooperation. This activity is similar to the “discovering missing features” proposed by Littlewood, but in this case the author used missing information not missing features.

Adriana Sales Zardini

Reference:

Littlewood, W. Communicative language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. p. 16 to 42

McHugh, Madeline. File Intermediate. Richmond Publishing, London. 1995.

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