Task-Based Learning: Planning a Party - International TEFL Academy

🎉 Task-based learning activity: planning a party.

📝 Four stages: pre-task, task preparation, during task, and posttask.

💡 Pre-task stage: mentally and linguistically prepare students.

🎉 A good party involves brainstorming, using pictures, and discussion questions.

📷 Pictures are a useful tool to engage students in activities and discussions.

📚 Reading or listening to a model text that mimics the task language helps prepare students for the upcoming task.

📝 Students are given a step-by-step handout or checklist to follow for a task-based learning activity.

👥 Students work in groups of three to independently build their task and collaborate.

📋 The teacher observes and takes note of weak and strong language features during the activity.

🗒️ During task-based learning, students act out their tasks and demonstrate their creativity and language abilities.

📝 The teacher remains low-key and takes notes on the language being used, addressing both strong and weak language features.

🎯 After completing the task, the teacher reflects on the language learned and encourages exploring other interpretations of task-based learning.

🎯 Task-based learning is an effective approach in teaching English as a foreign language.

📚 It is essential to tailor language tasks to the interests and needs of the students.

💡 Task-based learning promotes meaningful communication and language acquisition.