Activities for Task-Based Learning. Integrating a fluency first approach into the ELT classroom. Book with photocopiable activites

Ideas in Action: Activities for Task-Based Learning provides EFL teachers with a balance of theoretical insights and engaging tasks that can be used immediately. Activities for Task-Based Learning helps teachers ensure that meaningful communication takes priority over focusing on pre-selected language forms.This book is primarily intended for the general English adult and teenage classroom, but the ideas can be adapted for most teaching situations.Activities for Task-Based Learning:is dedicated to tasks created especially with TBL in mindoffers a variety of text reconstruction activitiesoffers strategies for helping capture and exploit emergent languageprovides suggestions for designing consciousness-raising tasksAdditional features and resources include:photocopiable worksheets accompanying most tasksvariation, extension, task repetition suggestionsauthentic recordings available for free on the DELTA Augmented applanguage feedback optionsfollow-up suggestions Anderson, NeilNeil Anderson is Senior Trainer at International House Budapest, where he works as a teacher, CELTA and DELTA trainer. He began teaching in 1997 and has taught and trained in the UK, Switzerland and Hungary.McCutcheon, NeilNeil McCutcheon is Head of Teacher Training for CELTA and DELTA courses at The ELT Hub in Lyon and Strasbourg. He began teaching in 1991 and taught in the UK, Ghana, and Hungary before moving to France.