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

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