English Language Education

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Chapter – III

Communicative Activities
&
Tasks
 Communicative Activities…

Communicative Activities include any

activities that encourage and require a
learner to speak with and listen to other
learners, as well as with people in the
program and community. Communicative
activities have real purpose to find
information, break down barriers, talk about
self and learn about culture.
 Tasks…
• A task is a classroom activity or exercise that
has an objective attainable only by interaction
among participants.
• It is a mechanism for structuring and
sequencing interaction
• It is a focus on meaning exchange
• A language learning process that requires
learners to comprehend, manipulate and/or
produce the target language as they perform
some set of work plans.
Characteristics of Tasks…

I.A task has meaning & purpose

II.A task has clear language learning
goals.
III.A task involves learners’ activity
IV.A task is productive.
V.A task has coherence with a
beginning,
a middle and an end.
 For desiging and framing Tasks and
Activities…

Main objectives from the point of view of the

language
 Should have the capacity to know about the
level of the learner
 Mixed ability of the group for which the
task/activity is being made.
Provision for distribution of the work sheets or

activity
Instructions and language for
instructions
 Classroom-management during the
task/activity
 Amount of support to be required
during supervision
Different types of Communicative Tasks in
Primary Language Classroom

1. Matching
2. Sorting/Categorising
3. Ranking
4. Sequencing
1. Matching

 Words with Pictures

 English words with Bengali words
 Sounds with words
 Sentence with pictures
2.Sorting/Categorising

Ask pupil to sort words

 into categories
 into lexical words
 into grammatical type
 to sort letters into
categories(vowel/consonant)
3. Ranking

Ask pupil to rank from

 Most favourite to least favourite

 Biggest to smallest
 Tallest to shortest
 Most comfortable to least comfortable
4 .Sequencing

 Letters alphabetically
 Words alphabetically
 Letters into words
 Words into sentences
 Sentences into paragraphs