Speaking is fundamentlly an interactive process and it is defined by interactivity and

happeds under real time constraints. The learners should speak for a purpose and the
activity should provide conditions that require the learners to use their communicative
competence. Having considered the tasks 1 and 2 from the coursebook I would definetely
not characterise these activities as authentic and purposeful ones. Although the second task
generates some discussion about superstitions and asks students to speak for themselves, in
my opinion students are restricted and they are not engages in realistic communication.
Also, the existance of the listenig task, makes learners to mechanically repeat the suggested
vocabulary and the stress paterns on specific words. Students mechanically adopt the
pronunciation patterns of the listening audio and they are not trained in speakig but they
repeat some ideas and patterns. The task is not related to student’s actual communication
needs and exhibit the feature of control, especially on the pronunciation patterns.