Task Based Learning Activities for ESL | Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning
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- Are you looking for some information about task-based teaching and learning, including activities, games, lesson plans and more? Watch my video for some of the top ideas for ESL task based activities! Task-based teaching and learning is a communicative approach that is an effective teaching method. Watch along and find out why you should consider using some task-based language learning activities in your classes today.
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Hey everybody, this is Jackie Bolen from eslspeaking.org. Today I'm going to talk about my top 5 ESL task-based activities.
The first one is planning a vacation. So I love to tell my students that my parents are coming to visit their home country. So I did this mostly at universities in Korea so I'd say that my parents from Canada were coming to visit Korea and my students had to plan a vacation for them. I'd give a description of my parents. They like walking but are in their 70's so they can't walk too far, they really enjoy art kind of stuff and being outside. Then I'd put students into groups and have them plan a vacation, a one-week vacation for my parents.
The next one is, What are you cooking? Students have to plan a 3-course meal, based on ingredients that other groups select for them. So I get each group to select something like 3 vegetables, 2 fruits, a type of grain, a dairy product, etc. And then when they're done that 3-course meal, they have to make a short presentation to the class. And then the other groups vote on which meal they'd most like to eat.
The next one is presentations, group presentations. I've done this in various ways. Some of my favourite ones are about current events and kind of hot topics like environmental issues or global warming, stuff like that. Students have to make a short, very short PowerPoint presentation or a poster and then do a presentation about that. So each person in the group has to talk for 1-2 minutes. You can adjust this depending on the level of your students, of course. And then, in the end, I get other groups to give feedback on that and then there's a question and answer time. I usually encourage participation by giving out bonus points to groups who ask good questions to the other groups, pay attention and ask good questions.
The fourth task-based activity to consider are information gap activities ( • Jigsaw Activities and ... ). There are a ton of them. Basically, they are when one student has half the information and the other student has the other half. Students have to communicate with each other to get the full set of information. A classic one would be two maps, a city map. One student knows where the bank is, the other one knows where the library is and they have to ask each other questions to fill in the complete picture of the map. Be sure to check my website below and I have, I think I have 25 information gap activities listed so be sure to have a look.
The final task-based activity I like to do is planning a class party. I put students into groups, give them a budget and then they plan whatever end-of-the-year class party they would like. In the end, the other students in the class vote on the party they think sounds most interesting and fun and then if at all possible, I actually like to do that activity or that party with my students. Sometimes it's more feasible than others so just depending on your context, it can be kind of a nice, motivating activity because students have certain ideas about what they want for a class party so if they can plan it, they usually really enjoy that.
Those are my task-based activities to try out.
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Thank you sooooooo much for this amazing video. You saved my life :) Lots of love from Egypt.
Glad it helped! Are you studying about how to teach English?
Love the idea of project focus!
It's a nice way to mix things up from the usual PPP style of ESL/EFL lessons.
I love task based learning! I haven't tried it yet since I mostly do conversation. When giving your students these tasks, do you usually provide them with a list of vocabulary or expressions to help them with their presentation?
Also, what ESL level is this geared toward?
You could certainly do that. However, one of the main benefits of TBL is that students are free to use whatever language they'd like in order to complete the task.
TBL works better for slightly higher-level students. The directions for the tasks can be too cumbersome for absolute beginners.
@@JackieBolen amazing thank you so much! So it's mostly like free talk with exercises, activities, etc then? Do you provide students with corrections for their mistakes in conversation?
Thanks so much for replying!
@@xpunkchic It's not free-talking. There's a task that students have to complete which gives the lesson a bit more structure. You can certainly correct errors if you'd like to.
Very great and interesting activities
Thanks so much! I'm happy that you found them useful.
I bought your book ❤
Amazing! Thanks so much for checking it out. Please leave a review if you like it :)
Hello Jackie I´m doing TBL with my students at a Portuguese primary school, to engage oral interaction. I´ve already bought your book and I can´t find ideas for this age..Can you help me?
TBL with very young learners is a bit tricky because it does require some degree of independence on the part of the learner. However, some simple tasks like ordering, sorting, listing works well for that age. Think smaller scale tasks instead of ones that take the entire class.
very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!