FACILITATING
SPEAKING TASKS
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COMMON TACTICS
Provide more language input
Elicit more clues
Personalize the contents
Reduce the workload
Adapt instructions
Combine tasks
Rearrange tasks
PROVIDE MORE LANGUAGE INPUT
Revise old vocabulary and structures
Unit 4 – Education – Task 3: revise structures to talk about similarities and differences
Provide words and expressions
Unit 7 – Economic reforms – Task 2: what verbs to be used with each content
ELICIT MORE CLUES
Make students talk about specific things
Unit 6: Future job – Task 2: What do you like/ don’t like about each job
Salary: how much is high enough?
Location: home town or a far-away city?
Unit 8: Life in the future – Task 2: Predictions about the future
Developments of science and technology: people landing on Mars; talking robots, intelligent house, etc.
PERSONALIZE THE CONTENTS
Bring out students’ previous knowledge
Make teaching contents age-specific
Utilize students’ imagination
Unit 16 – Asean – Task 2: What else do you know about these countries?
Unit 7 – Economic Reforms – Task 2: What changes do you want to see in school?
Unit 8: Life in the Future – Task 2: Allow students to make wild predictions
REDUCE THE WORKLOAD
Unit 7 – Economic Reforms – Task 2 Each group is in charge of one field only
Group 1: Ministry of Education
Group 2: Ministry of Health
Group 3: Ministry of Agriculture
ADAPT INSTRUCTIONS
Adapt instructions = Make it easier to understand
Unit 15 – Woman in Society – Task 2: Read and respond = What do you think of…?
Adapt instructions = Adjust requirements
Unit 1 – Home Life – Task 1
REARRANGE TASKS
Move from easier task to more challenging task
Unit 2 – Cultural Diversity – Do Task 2 & 3 before Task 1
COMBINE TASKS
Unit 11 – Books – Task 1 + 3, Task 2 + 4