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​ Hi teachers!

Do you ever look back at something you have done? Are you motivated by your own progress? In teaching English, we have to build a sense of their own success in our students and motivate them to develop their knowledge and skills. We have prepared some tasks that will tell your learners, 'You can be as smart as you want to be.'

Speaker, listener, note-taker

This task involves a clear distribution of roles: the one who speaks, the one who listens, and the one who writes.

Divide the class into groups of 3 students. Each group should have a speaker, a listener and a note-taker. In total, there will be three rounds lasting 2 minutes, in which students must express their opinion on a particular issue.

Give students a few minutes to plan their response. In each round, the roles change. Themes change in each round as well.

Topics that always work well include a story about yourself, holidays, hometown, hobbies, pets, last weekend, work and favorite food, etc.

Tell listeners that they should listen carefully and at the end ask one question to the one who was speaking. Explain to each note-taker that he or she should give feedback on one aspect (grammatical accuracy, range of vocabulary, different collocations, pronunciation or fluency, etc.) after the speaker has finished and answered the questions from the listener. After completing three rounds, students discuss their reaction to the feedback.

Use the following tips to diversify this task:

let the speaker choose the aspect in which he wants to get feedback;
let the listener also say how much he agrees or disagrees with the feedback given by the note-taker;
the speaker evaluates his own answer, and the note-taker says whether he agrees or not;
a note-taker can only give positive feedback.

Find more tasks in our new blog post.