UNIT 17 - PRACTICE ACTIVITIES AND TASKS FOR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

            Unit 17 is about Practice activities and tasks for language and skills development. Teachers should be creative in order to make fun activities for students because they need opportunities to practice the language by doing interesting tasks and different activities according the topic they are learning. Therefore, there are many different kind of activities and tasks with different names and different uses that teachers should apply to extent the use of language such as new vocabulary, functional exponents and grammatical structures. Free activities allows learners to use any language they want and the teacher is not able to predict what language the students will use. But the most important here is that using those activities students will focus on fluency and they are going to have the opportunity to interact with others and communicate by using the language they want. Finally, when teaching I would be more interested to provide my students as many activities or tasks I can because it will be helpful for them to practice the target language. I would create a good environment in the classroom by making fun and active activities to develop the learners' skills dynamically.        

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