Your ss need to practise these words today: shocked, upset, ashamed, anxious, bored, irritated

Design a communicative activity to work on them

Whenever possible: contextualized (authenticity)

Communicative purpose, addressee (register) mode (text-type)

Information gap

Meaningful learning

Collaborative

Interactive – negotiation of meaning

Some example activity types:

Role plays, debates, rankings, problem-solving, information-transfer activities, poster designs

LET YOUR STUDENTS THINK

Contents:

4 skills, from a discourse-oriented approach

Lg contents: functions, realised by grammatical, lexical and phonological elements

Techniques:

Communicative activities

Procedures:

Contents: Presentation (deductive: the teacher gives the rule and then lets do the activities to the
students / inductive: more thinking from the student who has to extract the rule. PROS the more you think
about things and your observation is involved the more permanent your knowledge tends to be, cognitive,
interactive. CONS: You have to make sure that everybody gets the right conclusion in an explicit way and
takes much more time.) > Practice (controlled, you find the grammar but without risks)> Production (gain
fluency, for more communicative purposes. Discussion)

Skills: writing, reading, listening, speaking

Contents: grammatical, lexical, phonological…

The more scaffolded the less creative, that means testing students individually: time-consuming, more
difficult to control, easy to correct but difficult to give a feedback so teachers tend to avoid it.