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Date Posted: 19:45:33 07/25/03 Fri
Author: alexandra accoroni gonçalves
Subject: task 12

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Faculdade de Letras
Communicative Approach
Professor Vera Menezes
Student Alexandra Accoroni Gonçalves


As Littlewood says at the introduction of 'Functional communication activities' "the principle underlying functional communication activities is that the teacher structures the situation so that learners have to overcome an information gap or solve a problem. Both the stimulus for communication and the yardstick for success are thus contained within the situation itself: learners must work towards a difinite solution or decision".
Something that I myself think is very interesting about his work is that all the activities proposed use figures or pictures. I used "English File" book at cenex for one year and I remember some activities were just exactly how Littlewood describes it in his book.I don't have this book in hands so I decided to use another activity here that I took from the book "TWIST! Student's book 1" by Rob Nolasco - Oxford University Press. I already used this activity in class differently of how it's proposed in the book. I photocopied the pictures on page 18 and gave to 4 students ; then I photocopied the texts in the same page and gave them to another 4 students. The students with the pictures had to describe what they were seeing in the picture without showing it to their colleagues and the ones with the texts had to say what the text was telling in their own words without showing the texts too. So they had to ask questions about the pictures and the texts and tried to find the correspondent picture and text. I think this activity can be considered "Sharing information with restricted cooperation - discovering identical pairs" because the students had to join the correct pair of picture and text.

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