Task-based Learning (TBL):
An Approach for the 21st
Century
Hanna Kryszewska
1. A Model TBL Lesson
Make pairs
Student A
Student B
Student A and B
clothes
colours
sounds and smells
physical and emotional
VAKOG
Student A and B
A B C
D E F
G H I
Test
in the upper at the top ...right...left handcorner
in the background
on the in the centre on the the left in the middle right
in the foreground
...lower... at the bottom
in the upper at the top ...right...left handcorner
in the background
on the in the centre on the the left in the middle right
in the foreground
...lower... at the bottom
Draw…
https://www.scribd.com/doc/236958931/1000-Pictures-for-Teachers-
to-Copy
Student A and B
Present Simple
Present Continuous
Present Perfect
Present Perfect Continuous
‘going to’
Future Simple
Future Perfect
Past Simple
Passives
Conditionals 0, 1-3, mixed
Gerund and infinitive
Modal verbs
Comparatives and superlatives of adjectives
Speaking 3Decide how you to use these words or phrases:
middle aged a special occasion delicious
dessert menu pleasant tip
wedding anniversary pay the bill
choose from the menu recommend propose to smb.
to get engaged business partners
body language special dish to enjoy
romantic atmosphere the couple
an evening to remember celebrate chef
Brainstorm
Student AIn the picture there is a married couple. They are nice. They are eating dinner. I can’t see what they are eating. But I think it is good. It is an expensive restaurant. It is nice. The restaurant is probably in a big city. Small towns don’t have restaurants like that. In my town there is only one bar and it is not nice. It is nice to live in a big city because there are such nice restaurants. One day I will live in a big city and I will be rich. I wouldn’t like to be a waiter. It is hard work and you don’t get much money. Sometimes the people in the restaurant give you some extra money. I think it is nice. But when the food is not good people are not happy. Then the waiter has a problem.
Student BIn the picture I can see two people in a restaurant. They are not very young and not very old. They are as old as my parents. She is wearing an elegant dress and he is wearing a suit. They are alone at the table. They are eating something, probably dinner. They are drinking wine. It is an elegant restaurant and there is a nice atmosphere. There are not many people. I can see a waiter. He is coming to serve them.
I think these people are a married couple. They have come to the restaurant to celebrate a his or her birthday. Or perhaps they got married 15 or 20 years ago. Perhaps they have fallen in love recently and he is going to ask her to be his wife. I don’t think this is a business lunch. The place is romantic and they look very happy.
Student A
listen and evaluate
Good/well done To work on
Student B
listen and evaluate
Good/well done To work on
Back to back
listen and evaluate
Good/well
done
To work on
1 Grammar
2 Vocab
3 VAKOG
4 Organisation
5 Fluency
6 Discourse man
7 Intonation/Pron
8 General impact
Feedback and evalutation
In this lesson I worked on....
I am good at...
I need to work on ...
http://shaunwilden.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Put-your-
hands-up-.pdf
2. Reconstruct the lesson
3. TBL planning procedures1. Decide on the final outcome
2. Plan the lesson
3. Teach the lesson:
Pre-task
Task
Practice
Report
Analysis
Feedback and evaluation
4. Outcomes for the future
4. Writing Task
honesty
policy
to desert
supervising
watchful gaze
image
deter
commuter train
subject
mug
amount
indicator
survival
selfishly
payment
male
subtle
subconscious
striking
improve
anti-social
circuit
to pay attention
evolved
We always behave the same regarding honesty.
You save money in an honesty box.
Eyes in an image have the same effect as real, live eyes.
The findings have a potential practical application.
The experiment was carried out on the wider public.
The research subject always saw the same picture.
The money was counted on a regular basis.
Historically it paid off to be honest.
When the photo of eyes was displayed, money paid in
almost doubled.
People react strongly to eyes only.
CCTV cameras will one day be replaced by photos of
eyes.
Evolution plays an important role in the phenomenon.
The eyes have it for making people behave more honestly
Ian Sample, science correspondentWednesday June 28, 2006The Guardian
Excellent piece by Oliver Burkeman on the ongoing
battle for supremacy between psychoanalytic therapies
and CBT. But what baffles and frustrates me, as a
counselling student, is the blinkered factionalism that
insists we have to have to choose which side we’re on.
To me, for example, it seems blindingly obvious that
learning to “challenge your inner critic” (CBT) is a good
idea, but that any thoughtful person will also want to
explore why they have an “inner critic”, and what its
origins are (psychoanalytic).
Lindsay Camp
Bristol
5. Planning a traditional lesson:
an old and forgotten file
Age words getting on still going strong in her early seventies over the hill OAP heading on for retirement mature feels his age growing old gradually as old as the hills one foot in the grave kicked the bucket elderly lady aged a lot ageing playboy in his late sixties senile second childhood middle age
the wrong side of forty approaching middle age infant a new born a toddler thirtyish kid a minor teenager young adult girlish a schoolboy in her prime older than he looks a grown up coming up to school age coming of age childish as old as she feels
DVD
Poem 1Age 3: She looks at herself and sees a Queen.
Age 8: She looks at herself and sees Cinderella.
Age 15: She looks at herself and sees an Ugly Sister (Mom, I can't go to school looking like this!)
Age 20: She looks at herself and sees "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly"- but decides she's going out anyway.
Age 30: She looks at herself and sees "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly"-but decides she doesn't have time to fix it so she's going out anyway.
Age 40: She looks at herself and sees "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly"- but says, "At least, I am 'clean’ and goes out anyway.
Age 50: She looks at herself and sees "I am" and goes wherever she wants to go.
Age 60: She looks at herself and reminds herself of all the people who can't even see themselves in the mirror anymore. Goes out and conquers the world.
Age 70: She looks at herself & sees wisdom, laughter and ability, goes out and enjoys life.
Age 80: Doesn't bother to look. Just puts on a purple hat and goes out to have fun with the world.
Poem 2
When I am an old woman I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer glovesAnd satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tiredAnd gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bellsAnd run my stick along the public railingsAnd make up for the sobriety of my youth.I shall go out in my slippers in the rainAnd pick the flowers in other people's gardens . . .
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?So people who know me are not too shocked and surprisedWhen suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
SongSince I still appreciate you,Let's find love while we may.Because I know I'll hate youWhen you are old and grey.So say you love me here and now,I'll make the most of that.Say you love and trust me,For I know you'll disgust meWhen you're old and getting fat.
from When you are old and grey by Tom Lehrer
Reading
Mr and Mrs Bluehair
from
Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman
By Sue Townsend
Japan pensioners volunteer to
tackle nuclear crisis
Yasuteru Yamada said people from all walks of life were welcome to join the group of more than 200 Japanese pensioners who are volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station. The Skilled Veterans Corps, as they call themselves, is made up of retired engineers and other professionals, all over the age of 60. They say they should be facing the dangers of radiation, not the young.
http://etykapraktyczna.pl/wpis/2012/07/04/xiao-szacunek-do-
rodzicow
• Regularly take your parents to the doctor
for check-ups.
• Make sure they have petty cash for small
expenses.
• Help your parents fulfill their childhood
dreams.
• Visit people with them.
• Often take their photos.
Final tasks???
Discuss
or
Write an essay on the following subject
Would you like to live to be 100 years old?
6.MLA course
6. Presentations
Content
Old things …. new uses
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/afghan-boy-messi-bag-shirt-excited-meeting-160201072656464.html
http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/news/local-news/new-coffee-pod-opens-old-9783297
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3511371/Designer-course-millionaire-creating-showstopping-dress-SKITTLES.html
http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/tips/a25330/new-uses-safety-pins/
http://www.containerhomeplans.org/2015/04/what-i-wish-id-known-before-building-my-shipping-container-home/
Find an angle
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Presentation skills with TED talks
https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_larsson_what_doctors_can
_learn_from_each_other/up-next
Evaluation of presentation skills
7. Writing
8. Other examples…
exam preparation
Writing 1
Task
Filling in a form
You are at a language camp in the UK.
You have been asked to fill in a form. It isanonymous.
There is no limit of words just completethe task.
Writing 1
Exam guideFilling a form
In the exam you sometimes fill in a form. With filling a form …
* sometimes you write some words or phrases, sometimes short sentences.
* there is no word limit, so don’t write much.* do the whole task.* small mistakes which don’t affect
communication are not a problem.
Writing 1
11 Work in pairs. How can you use these:
my favourite actor sixteen male Polish I love fantastic atmosphere
going to discos playing football from many countries reading books German
female I like studying sport sense of humour nice people good organisation
Writing
Now put these words and expressions into groups. There is more than one answer.
1 age, sex, nationality
2 interests
3 other students
4 the camp
12 Complete the task in Writing 1.
Try to use some words and expressions from Writing 2.
1. Age__________ Sex __________ Nationality__________
2. Your interests
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
3 Other students ________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
4. The camp ___________________________________________
______________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
Writing 2
You are writing an e-mail to a friendafter your holidays.
Answer the following questions about the task.
What tenses will you use?
Will you give any details? What?
Will you give any facts? What?
Will you write in factual tone?
Will you write in an excited tone?
Will you write in a calm tone?
Do you have to write the e-mail like a letter?
Writing 3You have read an article in an international magazine about the interests of young people in Italy. You don’t agree with the author. Write a short letter in which you:
- say why you are writing,
- introduce yourself,
- say what you disagree with in the article,
- describe your own experiences.
Writing 4.2
13 Work in pairs. Make notes on the exam task. Think about these things …
- how to start the letter,
- how to organise the letter,
- how to be polite,
- what expressions you can use,
- how to end the letter.
Writing 4.3SirI read the article in your newspaper about young people in Italy and their taste in music. I think the author of the article doesn’t know what he is talking about. He has no idea about us. We have a lot of great bands in Italy. Many of them are not famous in other countries but their music is really good. We also listen to music from all over the world, especially from England and America. We have good music shops with the latest CDs and music charts on the radio. Many famous singers come and perform in Italy. I have my own band and one day we will be famous. Our latest song is called „Sweet wine”. I can send you a demo tape. Perhaps you can get us in touch with a recording studio in England?YoursDomenico Samarati
8. Receptive skills as feeders
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Functions
- Ideas
- Variety of input
- Models
- Researching incl. blended learning
Reading 1 T/F
Exam guideAnswering True / False questions
In the exam there are tasks with True / False questions. With True / False questions …
* find key words in the questions.
* find key words in the text.
* find the important parts of the text.
* if the words in the text and in the questions are similar, be careful .
* if you are not sure, guess.
Listening 1 T/F
Answering True / False questions
In the exam there are tasks with True/ False questions. With true and false questions…
* read the sentences/ statements carefully.
* listen to the text carefully.
* listen carefully for differences. A difference does not mean this is not the right answer.
* if you are not sure, guess
9. Conclusion
Task-based Learning (TBL):
An Approach for the 21st Century
Holistic
No ’bitsy’ division
Linkage/flow
Target /outcome oriented
Promotes learner autonomy
Promotes learning awareness
Engages the learner
Thank you