Task Based Teaching
by Kursat
I’m a trainee teacher and I have already attended many observation classes but I couldn’t find any new ways of teaching grammar with task based method. So I need your help. Especially on passive voice. Hi Kurat, I have to be honest, this is the first time I have officially heard of task based teaching method. It is rather interesting though because it is the official name for what I have been doing for years. Rather than focusing on the grammar points and the structures, you focus on tasks or activities that people will experience in the real world. Once you choose the tasks that you need to teach, and then you can see what grammar or structures you need to teach. So for example, with the passive voice here is what you need to do. First you need to choose the tasks that need to be learnt. Don't put the cart before the horse. That means...don't do step 2 before doing step 1. Do things in the correct order, and in task based teaching step one is to choose the tasks. So, what do your students need to learn? How to describe a book. If you are trying to describe a book you might say that Diana Tower wrote the book in 2009. How would you say it in the passive? The book was written in 2009 by Diana Tower. I think one way to you could teach this would be to create situations and write little scripts or paragraphs that use active structures...then your students would need to work in pairs to change the text into the passive voice. Then they would read the texts aloud in class and the other students could correct them etc. For more information on Task Based Teaching you can read this great article by David Nunan called Aspects of Task-Based Syllabus Design
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