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Date Posted: 11:14:01 07/25/03 Fri
Author: Maria Lucia Gariano
Subject: Task 12

The exercise I chose is from New Headway English Course by John and Liz Soars (page 53). It is a pre-intermediate book, which I found at Cenex. The activity aims to teach students how to give directions. There is a detailed map(with pictures), and five different exercises related to the map. In one of the exercises there is an actual communicative purpose, it is a functional communication activity, which is based on discovering locations. The exercise is done in pairs where you give your partner directions to get to your house from your school. The main purpose of this exercise is to get students to use the language they already know in order to get their message across. The focus is on fluency rather than on accuracy. The best thing about this type of exercise is that you don’t have to follow a set of examples or conventions on how to give directions. There are many houses in the map, which gives each partner many possibilities of different directions to get to the house from school. I think this type of activity provides 'whole-task practice', improves motivation, allows for natural learning and creates a context which supports learning.

References:

Littlewood, W. Communicative language teaching.Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1981. p. 16 to 42
John & Liz Soars. New Headway English Course. Pre-Intermediate. Sudent’s Book. Oxford.

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