Communicative Activities

Communicative activities : Communicative activities

Review Warmers : What is a warmer? What are the characteristics of a warmer? Work with a partner to create a warmer for the following lesson: Going to the Market Review Warmers

The Basic Model : Warmer Setting Context Core Materials Controlled Practice Vocabulary Expansion Communicative Activities The Basic Model

Communicative Activities : occur after modeling of the language are production activities involve at least two people usually involve personal information or ideas should be engaging/of interest to the participants have a context In communicative activities, participants exchange previously unknown information in order to get something done. Communicative Activities

Communicative Warmers : Which of the warmer activities that we talked about yesterday are communicative activities? Find someone who…, three slips of paper (walkabouts) Tossing a ball/plush toy with Q & A Tic Tac Toe Communicative Warmers

Teaching Practice : For the teaching practice in Thailand you’ll be using Tic Tac Toe (Noughts & Crosses) as the communicative activity for your class. How to play: Elicit 9 answers to a specific question. Split the class into two groups (x’s and o’s) Decide which team goes first. Two students from the same team do the Q & A in order to win the spot. Teaching Practice

Information Gaps : Information Gaps

Crosswords : for three students 1 student is down 1 student is across 1 is the puzzle master for two students 1 is down 1 is across http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/ Crosswords

Surveys : Surveys

More Communicative Activities : Role Plays Comparing Pictures – Students have two pictures with slight differences. Market Place Trading – Students attempt to corner the market on something. Problem Solving – there are any number of activities that involve problem solving Planning for the future – Taking a trip Find common likes/dislikes Come to a consensus More Communicative Activities

Determining Objectives : Terminal Objectives – What you want students to do by the end of the lesson. Enabling Objectives – The steps students take in order to achieve the terminal objective. Which of the following is a terminal objective and which is an enabling objective? Communicative Activity Warmer Determining Objectives

Terminal & Enabling Objectives : Write a terminal objective for Tic Tac Toe: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to … Write an enabling objective for a basic model warmer: Students will … Terminal & Enabling Objectives

Assignment : Go online and find a communicative activity for one of the following topics: Food Money Environment Likes/Dislikes Specify the learning objective for each one: Students should be able to: Assignment

Assignment : Specify the following elements: Topic  food, sports, hobbies Context  going to a restaurant, playing sports, watching sports Function Functions can be split up into functions and notions. Functions are features between interlocutors Notions are features that happen between your ears Assignment