Practice activities and tasks for language and skills development.

Question 1

Practice activities and tasks for language skills development.

Answer 1

Activities and tasks designed to give learners opportunities to practice and extend their use of language..

Question 2

Controlled activities.

Answer 2

To practice accuracy and form; making few mistakes. E.g. Copying words, chants, drills (guided repetition) replace key words, transformating sentences.

Question 3

Free activities.

Answer 3

Allow students to use whatever language they wish to complete a task. These activities focus on fluency, communication and recalling vocabulary. E.g. Rank ordering/prioritasing, discussions, problem solving, wirting emails, etc.

Question 4

Freer activities.

Answer 4

The teacher can predict some vocabulary. They provide repited practice of target language, integrating new and their own vocabulary. E.g. role-plays, information gaps, sentence completition, gap-fills, surveys.

Question 5

Jumbled pictures.

Answer 5

Pictures in the wrong order.

Question 6

Jigsaw reading.

Answer 6

Each student have part of a text and need to tell each other what he or she has in order to accomplish the whole text.