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Date Posted: 07:38:58 08/01/03 Fri
Author: Jose Vilefort
Subject: TASK 13

Task 13

According to Littlewood (1981:39), functional communication activities place learners in a situation where they need to use language for a well defined communicative purpose.
Create a good communication activity and describe it to your classmates. Say which type it is, according to Littlewood.
It MUST be original. Do not copy any activity from textbooks.

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Organizing a classroom party.
The objective of this class is invite the students to plan and make a party to their classmates.

Warm-up.
 The party will be sponsored by themselves, the students, so the teacher needs to define the amount of money each student will need to pay to the organizers. For example, five reais. After that, the teacher can calculate the total amount of money the organizers will have to organize the party. For example: if there are 20 students into the class and they decide to pay 5 reais each, so the total amount of money will be: 20x5=100,00 reais.
 After that the teacher will offer to them a list of prices of beverages, foods, some staff (plastic plate, glass), location’s rent (places where the party can happen), etc. Example of this list:
 Beer – R2,00 each
 Sodas – R$2,00 each
 Picanha – R$ 8,00 per kilo
 Salgadinhos
 The teacher will revise the vocabulary presented into the list, before start the main activity.
 The teacher will divide the class in groups (three or four) of at least three students on each.

The main activity.
 Each group can organize the party as they want, (a barbecue, for example), using beverages, foods, etc, but whatever they use must be on the list provided by the teacher. The students can only add particular things, as music, games, but these additional things must be free of charge.
 Each group will have until 15 minutes to discuss and prepare the party for the whole class.
 After that, each group will explain what party they had planed to the class.
 After all the groups’ presentations, the teacher will ask the students which one they think is the best party. The teacher can ask for individual opinions, so the students can explain their points of view. For instance: “I don’t eat meat, so I don’t agree with a barbecue.”.

After they had choose the best one, teacher can congratulate the group winner with some prize, also the teacher can invite them to really organize a party following or not the organization studied.
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Followinf Littlewood,I think that this activity is a kind of processing information activity, and the main purpose of it is to invite the students to work around the list(information) offered by the teacher, exchanging ideas and points of view in order to organize a funny party, that can become true at the end of class.
That’s all.

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