Communicative Practice Activities for ELT (Webinar #1)

ELT Classroom Connections is a new webinar series brought to you by World Learning's TESOL and Teacher Training department. The goal of this webinar series is to share knowledge that can help teachers around the world elevate their ELT (English Language Teaching) practice for more effective language education.

In this webinar "Communicative Practice Activities for ELT”, our speaker Lois Scott-Conley will help you discover the power of real-life application in language teaching. You will leave with a toolkit of activities that you can adapt again and again to boost student motivation, foster confidence, and align with task-based learning.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00 Title opener
0:07 Introduction and housekeeping
3:39 Introducing Lois Scott-Conley
4:20 Webinar Objective and Agenda
4:51 Which activity is more communicative and why?
7:19 Defining Communicative Activities
9:31 Ways Communicative Activities Support Learning
14:09 Gap Activities
15:29 Types of Information Gap Activities
16:54 Describe and Draw
19:00 Describe and Identify: Maps
20:38 Describe and Identify: Multiple Similar Images
24:54 Information Sharing: Using Tables with Tick Boxes
28:51 Information Sharing: Timelines
30:15 Surveys: Group Mingle
32:20 Surveys: Find Someone Who (Group Mingle)
35:24 Find the Differences and Find Your Matches
37:34 Jigsaw Activity
40:52 Breakout Group: Task 1
43:11 Types of Opinion and Reason Gap Activities
45:59 Opinion Discussion: Using Images
52:08 Opinion Discussion: Questions on Cards with a Separate Gameboard
55:35 Opinion Discussion: Questions on a Gameboard & Follow-up Questions
58:00 Opinion Surveys
58:59 Reason Gap Activity: Complete a Task
1:01:20 Reason Gap Activity: Communicative Tasks
1:03:41 Breakout Group: Task 2
1:06:59 Q&A Session
1:28:45 Wrap-up