FACILITATING SPEAKING TASKS

FACILITATING
SPEAKING TASKS
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COMMON TACTICS
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Provide more language input
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Elicit more clues
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Personalize the contents
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Reduce the workload
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Adapt instructions
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Combine tasks
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Rearrange tasks

PROVIDE MORE LANGUAGE INPUT
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Revise old vocabulary and structures
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Unit 4 – Education – Task 3: revise structures
to talk about similarities and differences
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Provide words and expressions
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Unit 7 – Economic reforms – Task 2: what

verbs to be used with each content

ELICIT MORE CLUES
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Make students talk about specific things
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Unit 6: Future job – Task 2: What do you like/
don’t like about each job
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Salary: how much is high enough?
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Location: home town or a far-away city?
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Unit 8: Life in the future – Task 2: Predictions
about the future
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Developments of science and technology: people
landing on Mars; talking robots, intelligent house, etc.

PERSONALIZE THE CONTENTS
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Bring out students’ previous knowledge
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Make teaching contents age-specific
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Utilize students’ imagination
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Unit 16 – Asean – Task 2: What else do you know about these
countries?
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Unit 7 – Economic Reforms – Task 2: What changes do you
want to see in school?
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Unit 8: Life in the Future – Task 2: Allow students to make wild
predictions

REDUCE THE WORKLOAD
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Unit 7 – Economic Reforms – Task 2 Each
group is in charge of one field only
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Group 1: Ministry of Education
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Group 2: Ministry of Health
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Group 3: Ministry of Agriculture

ADAPT INSTRUCTIONS
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Adapt instructions = Make it easier to
understand
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Unit 15 – Woman in Society – Task 2: Read
and respond = What do you think of…?
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Adapt instructions = Adjust requirements
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Unit 1 – Home Life – Task 1

REARRANGE TASKS

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Move from easier task to more challenging
task
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Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity – Do Task 2 & 3
before Task 1

COMBINE TASKS
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Unit 11 – Books – Task 1 + 3, Task 2 + 4