Activities for Task-Based Learning

Ideas in Action: Activities for Task-Based Learning provides EFL teachers with a balance of theoretical insights and engaging tasks that can be used immediately. Activities for Task-Based Learning helps teachers ensure that meaningful communication takes priority over focusing on pre-selected language forms.

This book is primarily intended for the general English adult and teenage classroom, but the ideas can be adapted for most teaching situations.

Activities for Task-Based Learning:

• is dedicated to tasks created especially with TBL in mind
• offers a variety of text reconstruction activities
• offers strategies for helping capture and exploit emergent language
• provides suggestions for designing consciousness-raising tasks

Additional features and resources include:

• photocopiable worksheets accompanying most tasks
• variation, extension, task repetition suggestions
• authentic recordings available for free on the DELTA Augmented app
• language feedback options
• follow-up suggestions