Performance Activties

performance and closing

FLUENCY ACTIVITIES AND WRAP-UP

INDEX

1. Performance activities.

2. Setting up performance activities.

3. Performance demo.

4. Structure of fluency activities.

5. Pre-task

6. Task

7. Post-task

Performance activities

Why do we need to include fluency activities in our lessons?

Why do we need to include fluency activities in our lessons?

• Getting a message across fluently is the goal of all communication.
• Students need frequent fluency activities to mirror transactional and social situations.
• Students need opportunities to practice conversational “routines”.
• There should be a minimum of ONE fluency activity per unit.

What variety of fluency activities is possible?

• Role Plays
• Discussions & debates
• Problem solving tasks (listing, categorizing, prioritizing tasks)
• Narrating experiences: summaries, interviews, etc.
• Presentations by students.
• Extended real life simulations: e.g. negotiations, meetings, etc. (*for higher levels)

How can we set up fluency activities so that students are engaged?

How about a quiz?

Performance Demo

STRUCTURE OF FLUENCY ACTIVITIES

Pre-task

• Have your students remind you of the goal.
• Review the vocabulary and expressions covered in class through a mind map.
• Provide students with a simple instruction and/or model the activity if required.
• Set the time for conducting the task.

task

• Students complete the task using the language they know without interruptions from the instructor.
• Instructor takes note of accomplishments PLUS key language points to review and correct.

post-task

• Praise students for the completed task.
• Ask students how they felt.
• Provide students with positive feedback.
• Write the major mistakes made during the task (without stating who made them) and have all students correct them.
• Have students chorally repeat the corrected form of the language.

closing

CLOSING

• Elicit a short summary of key elements of the lesson.
• Confirm achievement of the goal by asking students if they are now able to...
• Assign homework.

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