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Date Posted: 15:31:32 07/23/03 Wed
Author: Thiago Rodrigues Costa
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.

The activity chosen to be described and classified in this exercise was taken from Joanne Collie’s “Double Take Listening and Speaking 3”, Oxford, pages 59 and 63. It is mainly based on the description of pictures by students who are supposed to work in pairs.

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: A whole picture shows a scared man who sees a ghost outside his house from his kitchen. However, the picture was torn in two halves. Each half of the picture was put on a different page of the book. The first half only shows the terrified man in his kitchen and the second one only shows the ghost outside the house. The students are not supposed to show their halves of the picture to each other. Each student, in turn, describes his/her half to his/her partner and, after that, they have to decide together on what they think is the whole situation. Each of the halves of the picture is full of details that may help the students in their descriptions and inferences, and the students do not need a complex vocabulary to do the activity, since the objects portrayed in the picture are very common ones.

ACTIVITY CLASSIFICATION: According to the types of communicative activities presented by Littlewood (1981: 32-33), this activity could be classified as a “sharing and processing information activity”, seeing that each of the students have different information that they are supposed to share with their partners and, after that, they have to discuss together on what would be happening in the whole picture / situation. They have to construct, together, the whole event. The learners in this activity are not only supposed to describe what they see, but also infer information from some aspects of their halves of the whole picture, what gives to the activity a more unpredictable use of the language. Partners can agree or disagree with each other’s opinion about the whole event, as well as negotiate between them their final opinion on what the whole picture would be portraying.

Source:
Collie, Joanne. Double Take Listening and Speaking 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Littlewood, W. Communicative language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge Univeristy Press, 1981.

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