剑桥英语教学能力认证考试教程.pdf

Unit16 Practice activities and tasks for language and skills development What are practice activities and tasks for language and skills development These are activities and tasks designed to give learners opportunities to practice and extend their use of language, such as new vocabulary, functional exponents or grammatical structures, or of the subskills of reading, listening, speaking or writing. There are manydifferent kinds of activities and tasks with different namesand different uses. Key concepts Here are two writing activities. Can you find three teaching differences between them Activity 1 Complete these sentences about yourself with can or can ’t. 1. I ……… swim. 2. I ……… speak Mandarin. 3. I ……… play the guitar. 4. I ……… use a computer. 5. I ……… run very fast. Activity 2 Write an invitation inviting your friends to your birthday party. Invite them. Tell them: the date the time the address of the party. We can see that both these activities give learners an opportunity to use language, but in different ways. Activity 1 Activity 2 is a controlled/restricted practice activity because learners can only use certain items of language focuses on accurate use of language is a gap-fill exercise. is a less controlled/freer practice activity because the language the learners will use is not carefully limited or controlled focuses on communicating a message is a task. The same kinds of differences can also be seen in other activities for speaking, writing and learning new language. Drills (guided repetitions), copying words or sentences,