39 Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning Activities: A Very Practical Guide to Using TBL in the

✍ Scribed by Jackie Bolen

Publisher: Jackie Bolen
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 79
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Have better task-based ESL/EFL classes with children, teenagers or adults. It's time to find some fresh, new ideas for TBL lessons!

Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more task-based activities for your English classes. If you're tired of wasting your precious time wading through the junk on the Internet, then Jackie is here to help.
During her decades of experience teaching English around the world, author Jackie Bolen has developed countless games and activities for her students that fall into the communicative language teaching approach. She's sharing her low-prep/no-prep ideas for task-based learning with ESL teachers throughout the world. These are the activities that she uses in her own classes!

In 39 Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning Activities: A Very Practical Guide to Using TBL in the ESL/EFL Classroom, you'll get a ton of creative and interesting ideas for speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and more to use in your own classroom.

The highly detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. The clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students.

Pick up a copy of the book if you want to...

Have better English lessons
Incorporate more task-based activities into your classes
Save a ton of time when planning lessons
Help students improve their English skills in a big way
See lots of happy, smiling faces in your classes
Add some variety into English classes
Increase communication and teamwork amongst students
If you're extremely busy or you're simply out of new ideas, this book makes it easy to try out new and exciting TBL activities your students will love!

✦ Subjects

Education / Language Experience Approach; Education / Reference; Foreign Language Study / English As A Second Language

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