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Methods II – LCB TTC Task-based Lesson Plan.Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009
Task-based Lesson Plan
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Process Writing
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StepThe Task:
Students are put in pairs or small groups of three and are given a sheet tocreate a quiz to test their partners’ (another pair) general knowledge. Theyhave to create 12 questions and provide the correct and true answers. Thefirst 9 questions are prompted and the other 3 are going to be completelycreated by them.
Aims:
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By the end of the lesson students will have created a quiz to test theirpartners’ general knowledge.
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By the end of the lesson students will have worked on their generalknowledge of the world using the target language as a means toexchange information as well as do something that they actually dooutside the classroom (answering quizzes is a very well-knownpastime).
Outcome:
The expected outcome is a 12-question quiz to test their partners’ generalknowledge. Students must also know its answers.
Evaluation Criteria:
Peer Evaluation:
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The quiz must have 12 true-to-life questions with their correspondinganswers, which should be based on reality. This will be checked afterthe lesson, for homework, by the students themselves. Each pair of students will take home another quiz to check it (no one will correcthis own but some other pair’s quiz).
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When students ask and answer the quizzes. If they understand eachother’s questions and can answer them, it means that they areaccurately enough written for the listener to understand them. Inaddition, students will take the quizzes home so as to check bothcontent and form. One pair reads the quiz they created to other pair
 
 This a Task-Based Lesson Plan. The aim of the lesson is forstudents to carry out a task to learn English. Learners doingtasks (i.e. focusing on meanings) will be making free use of whatever English they can recall to express the things thatthey really want to say or write in the process of achieving thetask. There will be a moment, however, in which students willfocus on language so as to enhance their performance in doingthe task.NB: What is a task? A task is an activity in which the targetlanguage is used by the learner for a communicative purpose(goal) in order to achieve an outcome.
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Methods II – LCB TTC Task-based Lesson Plan.Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009
for them to answer it. Then, they swap roles. It’s a listening activity:the pair answering the quiz is listening to it (it’s read by the pair thatcreated it).
Introducing the Task to the Students:
The teacher tells the students that they are going to create a quiz to testtheir general knowledge. The quiz will be created in pairs and they will use itto test another pair’s general knowledge. It will be real fun because they willbe able to show the rest how much they know about the world. It may be a lotof fun as well because, in general, within a classroom students may knowdifferent (and sometimes peculiar) facts and it is really interesting to sharethem.
Pre-Task (Getting Ready):
The students answer the Music Quiz on page 20 (New English File Pre-Intermediate, Student’s Book. See Appendix). To do it, they will carry outExercise 1 (the three parts and in pairs. The teacher monitors them).Once they do the three activities, they check answers with the whole class.The teacher selects four questions and writes them on the board. Two of thequestions with auxiliaries (e.g.: questions 1 and 8) and the other two withoutthem (e.g.: 7 and 9). The teacher asks the students to focus on the two setsand to try to explain the difference between them. The teacher guides themasking them to focus on the functions that the wh-words have in each of thesets.
Task Cycle:
Students are given the photocopy to carry out the task. They are first asked tocomplete the questions (in pairs or groups of three). The teacher tells thestudents that they must know the answers because they will need to be ableto decide whether or not the pair they test (the testing will be done orally:the pair answering the quiz will only be listening to it while the one thatcreated it will be read it for them to listen) has passed the quiz or not. Therewill be dictionaries and encyclopaedias available and if that is not possible,the students will ask the teacher for help with any vocabulary doubt. Havingaccess to the Internet would be ideal but it is not essential, of course.
Post-task:
Students concentrate on form. The teacher tells them that the quizzes aregoing to be published online (the class blog) for other people to answer them.To get the quizzes ready, the teacher asks the students to exchange quizzesso as to correct and edit any language problems. (This will be done in class tocheck both content and form and the teacher will monitor them so as to makesure that any problems and mistakes are corrected).
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Methods II – LCB TTC Task-based Lesson Plan.Process Writing. Third DraftAlejandra de Antoni – 2009
APPENDIX
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The Task
(adapted from Communicative Activity 2-C; New English FilePre-intermediate Teacher’s Book; OXFORD University Press)
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