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Date Posted: 15:32:09 07/25/03 Fri
Author: Roberta Mesquita
Subject: Task Twelve

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


The textbook I choose was The Slangman Guide to Street Speak 2. I choose it because I think it is a wonderful book that provides street vocabulary or, in other words slang. I always thought that most of the material used in Language Schools lacks the ability to pass to the students’ native fluency. It is similar to Portuguese, a foreigner is very fluent but when he gets here his classmates greet him: “E ai vei, belezz?” Anyway, that what this book is all about, it teachers the “Wuzup?”

Littlewood says about Social interaction activities: “We also saw in chapter 1 that another important aspect of communicative skill is the ability to take account of the social meaning as well as the functional meaning of different language forms. The competent speaker chooses language which is not only functionally effective, but is also appropriate to the social situation he is in” (pp 20). Keeping this in mind I chose the following activity from the book.

Students are supposed to find the sequence of a conversation between two teenagers planning a weekend event. I picked this activity because it features many skills at once. You have pictures of the kids doing the activities they are talking about and you have strips with the description of these activities in the dialog form. Each student should get one picture and one written strip picked randomly. Then they have to put it in order after hearing the conversation once. The book also suggest a division of the class and a competition between the two groups to see who gets it done faster, and then have the slow group perform the conversation for the class.

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