Communicative Language Teaching Assignment

Exercise 1: Watch the video of task based language teaching / Read the
textbook and try to put the following activities in the right order of a typical
Task-Based Language Teaching lesson:

A. Pair work: Student A you want to buy shoes. Describe your favorite shoes.

Student B: you are shoe-shop assistant. Convince A to buy shoes

B. Listen to a conversation about two people the importance of wearing

comfortable shoes, then practice the dialogue with a few modifications

C. Work in groups and Design a poster in which you present qualities of a new
pair of shoes that you want to sell.

D. What did you learn today? Today I learned…… but I didn’t understand ….

E. Watch an advertisement about shoes and identify key words and main idea

F. Listen to various people talking about the qualities of their favorite shoes and
match people with pictures of shoes

G. Study the use of descriptive adjectives and intonation

Exercise 2: Watch the video of task based language teaching/ Read the
textbook and answer the following questions in a concise paragraph

1. Which activities from Exercise 1 above could be classified as traditional

exercises?

2. Which activity from Exercise 1 above represents the task?

3. Does the task from Exercise 1 above have a linguistic or a non-linguistic

outcome? Please justify you answer!

4. What is the role of the teacher in each one of these activities from
Exercise 1 above?

5. What would you change in this lesson? Why?

6. Do you think that the last part of the lesson is necessary? Why?