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Date Posted: 10:56:18 07/25/03 Fri
Author: Antônio Estêvão
Subject: Task 12

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.

Recent books have brought real and interesting information which call learners’ attention. This is one of the characteristics presented in the activity I chose for describing as an answer to this twelfth task.

Activity source:
- Book : File Intermediate
- Author : Madeline McHugh
- Unit 1, pages 7 and 158
- Exercise 3 – What’s Australia like? Describing places

Activity description

There is a text about Australia country in page 7. It is not a big text. It has 18 lines with several information about Australia, like its population, where people are used to live in, the population of some cities, the climate, the language, and so on. But it is lacking some information, which are replaced by some big dashes. The same text is presented in page 158 but the information gaps are in different places. Student A takes the text in page 7 and student B takes the text in page 158. They are supposed to find out the lacking information by asking questions to each other like “what’s the population of Australia?” and “what’s the climate in the north of Australia like?”. Of course student A cannot see B’s text beforehand and vice versa. They must ask questions, hear the answers and write down the information. After having all the answers one my see the other one’s text.

Activity type

This is a functional communication activity because the aim is to exchange information as effectively as possible in a classroom environment.


Bibliographical References

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

McHUGH, Madaline. File intermediate. Richmond Publishing. 1995.

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