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Date Posted: 07:41:26 07/27/03 Sun
Author: Maria Juliana de Souza
Subject: Task #13

13th TASK:
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.

A class project: COLORS

Aim:

1. To identify colors in a communicative and nice way.
2. To work in pairs in an efficient way.


Type of activity:

1. Information gap.


How to work:

1. Get together with the group and prepare questions you are going to ask people;
2. First you are going to ask 5 people about the colors of clothes they are wearing;
3. Next, you are going to ask 5 people about the color of eyes and hair of 5 famous persons you know, for sure, the answer;
4. Then, you are going to ask 5 color of things they have seen today to check if they remember;
5. Finally, the group is going to discuss and organize a way to tell the whole group about the results of the task and what they have found about it;
6. You can use the chart above as a model to collect your data. Remember, it is just a model; you can create your own personalized chart.






COLORS
INTERVIEWED PEOPLE CLOTHES THEY ARE WEARING EYES AND HAIR OF 5 FAMOUS PEOPLE 5 THINGS THEY HAVE SEEN TODAY
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Comments on Activity:

According to Littlewood (1981), this activity emphasizes functional aspect of communication.
In this case learners will exchange information, with whatever language they have at their disposal. The main purpose of this activity is that learners should use the language they know in order to get meaning across as effectively as possible.
On the other hand, this activity takes on account social meaning as well as the functional meaning. The competent speaker choose language which is not only functionally effective, but is also appropriate to the social situation is in.
In this situation, students will share and process information, they will need to explore their repertoire in order to express ideas for which they have not been specifically prepared. They will be facing disagreement and negotiation.
In my opinion this activity is very good for basic or low intermediate students, especially teenagers. I would work with this activity in a large group, it is very applicable to regular schools with a plenty of people to be interviewed and a lot of information to be exchanged.
In a large group it would be really fun and maybe it would bring a surprisingly result, full of joy to the teacher, because the students can go beyond expectations!


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

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