Items and opinions Unit 4

Rodriguez Pintle Eric

Activities for each Skill

From my perspective and experience in language learning, a student has to create with what is learned in order to make the knowledge part of him/her. For this reason I chose these activities:

Reading:

·         True or false

·         Guess the title of a text based on the context

With these activities the student will develop his/her reading skills, such as scanning, skimming, etc.

Writing:

·         Alternative endings to stories

·         Free writing

·         Role-plays with dialogues created by the students

In order to be creative a student must create, that is why I chose those activities in which the learner must invent and come up with some original ideas to complete the tasks.

Listening:

·         Authentic spoken conversations (Can be found in some text-books)

·         Comprehension (You can use movies, some songs, etc.)

Authentic language has to be used when learning a language, and these activities are useful to get used to the real language.

Speaking:

·         Class discussions

·         Role-plays

Fluency is an important aspect, so I decided to improve it with tasks where the originality and creativity of the students are applied.

Do not forget that when students are creating the teacher must pay more attention, because there can be more errors than when learners are just doing objective activities