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Date Posted: 12:46:05 07/25/03 Fri
Author: Jose Vilefort
Subject: TASK 11

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

I took an activity from the book INTERCHANGE – English for international communication – INTRO Student’s book. This activity is named Interchange activities and is divided in two parts: a pair work and a class activity. The basic idea is to compare two pictures of a normal bedroom, where there is a bed, a television, some books, some pictures on the wall, some furniture and finally some usually objects (sunglasses, newspaper, hairbrush) that are spread around the bedroom. Beyond this description, there are differences about where are these usually objects. So, this INTERCHANGE ACTIVITY starts with a pair work activity, where the students have to ask and answer questions to identify How are the two pictures different? In order to do it they will use dialogs like:
Where are the sunglasses?
In picture A, the sunglasses are….
In picture B, the sunglasses are….

After this pair work activity there is a class activity, where the students will be invited to talk about the differences with the classmates. The students will determine the kind of expressions they will use, so they can use the same expressions of the previous activity or not. Dialogs and expressions are just suggested by the book without obligations about grammatical rule and things like that.
According to Littlewood’ examples of Functional communication activities, I think that this activity is an example of ‘discovering missing features’ activities, because this activity, as he says, ‘involves asking questions based on his own (complete) picture, in order to find out where B’s picture is different. The present activity can therefore provide a convenient communicative follow-up to such teacher-controlled practice, requiring learners to use the same language, but for a different purpose.”


REFERENCE:
Interchange: English for international communication: intro student's book.
Jack C. Richards. Cambridge University Press. 1994

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