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Nov 10, 2006 · Ellen Jane Willis was born in Manhattan on Dec. 14, 1941; her father was a lieutenant in the New York Police Department. Reared in the Bronx and Queens, she earned a bachelor’s degree in...
Oct 1, 2008 · How One Lawyer Went From Being a Shark at the Blackjack Table to a Shark In the Courtroom - Harvard Law School | Harvard Law School. Alumni Focus. Two of a kind: Jane Willis ’94 (left) with her on-screen alter ego, Kate Bosworth.
- Identifying Task-Like Activities
- Three Types of Task
- Stimulating More Interaction
- Three More Task Types
- Summary
- References
- Further Reading
In my first article, Criteria for identifying tasks for TBL, we looked at six questions that gave us criteria to help us identify tasks and 'upgrade' potential task-like activities into tasks. So now we can identify activities in a textbook unit that could become tasks and form the basis of a task cycle with; 1. Pre-task activities, 2. Task - Plann...
Activities like the following generally have the potential to become effective tasks: Listing and/or brainstorming You can list people, places, things, actions, reasons, everyday problems, things to do in various circumstances, etc. Examples 1. (1) In pairs, agree on a list of four or five people who were famous in the 20th century and give at leas...
All the examples I have given above are based on activities from real textbooks, but in each case I have added a further step or two to stimulate additional meaning-focused language use. 1. In 1 and 3 learners are asked to give reasons for or justify their decision. 1. In 2, 5 and 6 they do the tasks individually then explain to their partner how t...
Comparing: finding similarities and differences Comparison tasks can be based on two quite similar texts or pictures (a classic example is 'Spot the Differences') or places or events, etc., that learners have experience of. Learners can also compare their own work with that of another learner or another pair or group. Examples: 1. Compare your list...
So far we have identified and commented on six types of task that sometimes appear in textbooks or that can be adapted from task-like activities. We have seen that a set of tasks can be built up around one topic. We have looked at ways of stimulating richer learner interaction and giving more opportunities for genuine meaning-focused language use a...
The tasks in this article are based on activities from: 1. Face2face Pre-intermediateby Chris Redstone & Gillie Cunningham (Cambridge University Press 2005) 2. Total English Starterby Jonathan Bygrave (Pearson Longman 2007)
For more on task types, see Chapters 4 and 5 of Doing Task-based Teachingby Dave Willis & Jane Willis (Oxford University Press 2006) Next article > From priming tasks and target tasks to language focus and grammar
[countable, uncountable] an explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase, especially in a dictionary The dictionary provides clear, simple definitions. definition of something the dictionary definition of this term
Jane Willis (1996) divide TBA into three sections, which are the pre-task, the task cycle, and the language focus. Pre-task: In this stage, teachers introduce the topic to students and try to stimulate students’ interest.
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1 day ago · 5. the true or basic quality of something. to uncover the what and why of their relationship. adjective. 6. which or which kind of. used interrogatively or relatively in asking for or specifying the nature, identity, etc. of a person or thing.
definition: [noun] a statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol. a statement expressing the essential nature of something. a product of defining.
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