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Date Posted: 15:45:42 07/25/03 Fri
Author: leandra de freitas
Subject: task 12

According to Littlewood´s a true communicative activity takes students understand the goal of the exercise among the lines. The activity shows them how learners can search in their background knowledge information to solve problems during the process of the activity.

The activity that I selected is from New Interchange (Intro) 1 / English for International Communication by Jack C. Richards with Jonathan Hull and Susan Proctor – Unit 09 - page 56 and 57 - Activity 1, 2, 3.
This is an interesting activity, because if you read it and show to your students, it becomes slowly and boring a lot. However, one day, during a class that I teach, I decide to do it orally and the results change. The activity is to basic students and it is about food. Grammar focus: present simple. The steps are below:
1. On the first page there is a big picture with a lot of kinds of fruits, vegetables, starches and dairy.
2. On the second one there are some exercises as below:
a) Write in two columns countable and uncountable food names.
b) Questions about favorite food
c) A great text about the hamburger origin history
If teachers use almost all of these exercises orally, they will be introducing the possibility of thinking and resolving the speak problem talking about feelings and actions that are from their schedule. And in this case, the talking necessity is bigger than the “blanks” that almost student has. Later, teachers can organized a small party (it can be even inside the class). Learners will have to prepare a recipe, which they’ll choose. The suggestions can be a fruit salad, or if you have friendly students, why don’t you go to a restaurant or a pub. I believe that situations like that can be done even with basic level. I have done it and I have had interesting results. It is so much important teachers introduce learners inside real situations.

LITTLEWOOD, William. Communicative Language Teaching. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1995

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