Unit 17

PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

 

With activities and a lot of practice students can extend their use of language. In controlled activities students can make few mistakes, but they can practice in accuracy and the form of language. With choral drills, individual drills, substitution drills, transformation drills, teachers can control learners’ knowledge and give guidance  and support  them rather than free activities, these kinds of activities allows students to be more fluent, practice and interact in order to communicate their feelings, knowledge and ideas.

In class it is better to mix the activities, we can vary them using freer activities and controlled activities so in this way you will motivate learners and also you will help them focus on form and the way they use the language. In a lesson you can start with choral drills, or substitution drills to let them realize what is the function of a word in a sentence.  Then you can continue with a freer activity as a role- play students like to be part of a group, add and share their ideas to perform a role-play, for that freer activities will help them to integrate new language with language they already know. 

In this book you will find many activities and materials that you can put in practice in class

• Google Books, (2014). Materials Development in Language Teaching. [online] Available at: http://books.google.com.ec/books?hl=es&lr=&id=TmhyTQji2UEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR1&dq=ACTIVITIES+AND+TASKS+FOR+LANGUAGE+AND+SKILLS+DEVELOPMENT&ots=EIcuR3qDSX&sig=tgJfnkJj9dgedqNvML1ivrXb8G4#v=onepage&q=ACTIVITIES%20AND%20TASKS%20FOR%20LANGUAGE%20AND%20SKILLS%20DEVELOPMENT&f=false [Accessed 6 Dec. 2014].