Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

MODULE 1. TEACHING AND INTEGRATING LANGUAGE SKILLS
LESSON 23
Theme: Content-based learning
Lead-in (10 min)

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  Write these terms on the board – exercise, activity, task.
  
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  Ask students the following questions:
  

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  Do you think these terms are similar? Or is there any difference?
  
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  What do they mean?
  
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  Can you give any examples?
  

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  Elicit random answers.
  
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  Establish that different people define these terms differently. But usually educationalists refer to an exercise as a teaching procedure that involves controlled, guided or open ended practice of some aspect of language. A drill, a cloze activity, a reading comprehension passage can all be regarded as exercises.
  

The term activity is more general and refers to any kind of purposeful classroom procedure that involves students doing something that relates to the goals of the course. For example singing a song, playing a game, taking part in a debate, having a group discussion, are all different kinds of teaching activities.
Task is normally defined as when students are engaged in a meaningful activity oriented towards specific goal, outcome.

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  Tell students that in this lesson you will explore the task based learning approach which helps to integrate all language skills.