Unit 17 Practice activities and tasks for language and skills
development
These refer to the kind of tasks that are chosen to give pupils opportunity to use and
practice the language. There are two categories of activities: Controlled and
free which are aimed to help students to develop their receptive and productive
skills. Controlled activities are focus on accuracy, repetition and language
form, these involve choral, individual, substitution and transformation drills,
which are restricted. On the other hand, in free activities students can use
the language they want to do tasks; it is focus on fluency and requires some
control. This type of activities do not allow the teacher know the language
students will use in discussions, writing tasks, interaction activities, etc.
Sometimes it is difficult to say if an activity is controlled or free, since it
can be the two of them according to how the teacher used it in the classroom.
In the classroom I will try to
apply free and controlled activities according to the students’ needs and the language
forms taking into account that the category of the activities can vary
depending how I apply them in the class.
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Excellent Job Nataly
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I found very interesting the way that you write your reflexion because it make me realize in a better way the content that can be applied inside of the classroom
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