TKT Unit 16:TKT Unit 16:Practice Activities and Practice Activities and

Tasks for Language and Tasks for Language and Skills DevelopmentSkills Development

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Porntip BodeepongsePorntip Bodeepongse

What are they?What are they? Activities and tasks designed to give Activities and tasks designed to give

learners opportunities to practise and learners opportunities to practise and extend their use of language, such as extend their use of language, such as new vocabulary, new vocabulary, functional functional exponentsexponents or or grammatical grammatical structuresstructures, or of the sub-skills of , or of the sub-skills of reading, listening, speaking or reading, listening, speaking or writing. There are many different writing. There are many different kinds of activities and tasks with kinds of activities and tasks with different names and different uses.different names and different uses.

Task 1: AnswersTask 1: Answers

Activity 1Activity 1:: is a controlled/ is a controlled/

restricted practice restricted practice activityactivity

focuses on focuses on accurate use of accurate use of languagelanguage

is a gap-filling is a gap-filling exerciseexercise

Activity 2:Activity 2: is less controlled/ is less controlled/

freer practice freer practice activity activity

focuses on focuses on communicating a communicating a messagemessage

is a is a tasktask

Controlled practice Controlled practice activitiesactivities

Drills (guided repetitions)Drills (guided repetitions) Copying words or Copying words or

sentencessentences Jazz chantsJazz chants DictationDictation Reading aloudReading aloud

Freer practice activitiesFreer practice activities DiscussionsDiscussions Problem-solving through Problem-solving through

exchange ideasexchange ideas Sharing or comparing ideas, Sharing or comparing ideas,

information or experiencesinformation or experiences Writing emails, stories, Writing emails, stories,

letters, invitations or letters, invitations or compositionscompositions

Activities can differ in Activities can differ in several waysseveral ways

the skill or sub-skill they focus the skill or sub-skill they focus onon

what type of activities they arewhat type of activities they are what what interaction patternsinteraction patterns they they

useuse

Key conceptsKey concepts

When selecting activities for When selecting activities for practising productive skills, we need practising productive skills, we need to decide to decide whether to do a controlled whether to do a controlled practicepractice (accuracy) (accuracy) or a freer or a freer practice activitypractice activity (communication) (communication)..

When choosing activities for When choosing activities for developing skills, we need to decide developing skills, we need to decide which skill or sub-skill to focus onwhich skill or sub-skill to focus on..

More key conceptsMore key concepts

Lessons should consists of a series Lessons should consists of a series of linked activities:of linked activities:

1.1. PPP: Presentation PPP: Presentation controlled practice controlled practice activities activities freer practice activities freer practice activities

2.2. TBL: Discussion TBL: Discussion tasks tasks presentation presentation focus on form focus on form

3.3. Skill-based lessons: Warmer and lead-Skill-based lessons: Warmer and lead-in in comprehension tasks comprehension tasks post-task post-task activitiesactivities