Activities for Task-Based Learning

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 mind
offers a variety of text reconstruction activities
offers strategies for helping capture and exploit emergent language
provides suggestions for designing consciousness-raising tasks


Additional features and resources include:


photocopiable worksheets accompanying most tasks
variation, extension, task repetition suggestions
authentic recordings available for free on the DELTA Augmented app
language feedback options
follow-up suggestions