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Date Posted: 11:14:15 08/01/03 Fri
Author: Luciano Santos Valadares
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. The best activity will won a prize.


Mime activity

Level: Beginners
Objective: to practice the use of the present continuous and Is she/ Is he questions.
Time: 25 minutes

This activity is an adaptation from an activity I always do with my pupils. According to Littlewood the activity below has to do with the theory of Pooling information to solve a problem and Social interaction activities.

Divide the class into small teams of two to three players. Set a time limit of 3 to 5 minutes for the team secretaries, helped by the rest of the team, to write down an action in a slip of paper and hand it to you, without any of the others players seeing it. Mime the action for the rest of the group to guess: Are you shaving yourself? Are you brushing your hair? Answer with Yes, I am or No, I’m not. (Your mime does not have to be good – the more amateur the mime, the more the questions will have to be asked). Give verbal hints if necessary. The player who guesses the right answer then gets the chance to mime an action for the others to guess, and so on, until everyone has had a turn.
You could practice Is he/ Is she questions by getting two students to think of an action; one then mimes the action while the other answers the questions. If the players cannot think of an action to mime, you could suggest washing hands, telephoning, driving a car, playing chess, lighting a fire, making an omelet and having a shower. Another variant of the game is to suggest different categories such as eating something, cooking something, doing something in the house, playing a game. Each player then mime, for example eating a different kind of food for the others to guess: eating spaghetti, eating an egg, and eating peas.
If nobody guesses the right answer tell the students the right answer and ask them to suggest a mime to it.

Reference:

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

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