Educacion

TASK BASED ENGLISH HANDBOOK
FOR ELEMENTARY & INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS
A Research Companion: Enhancing English Learners‟

Interactive Skills in English Conversations Through Tasks Based on Authentic Audiovisual Materials. Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2011

THOMAS NDONYO OSORO

OSORO Thomas Ndonyo. Enhancing English Learners’ Interactive Skills in English Conversations Through TasksBased on Authentic Audiovisual Materials. Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2011

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OSORO Thomas Ndonyo. Enhancing English Learners’ Interactive Skills in English Conversations Through Tasks Based on Authentic Audiovisual Materials. Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2011

CHAPTER 1 GREETINGS
GENERAL OBJECTIVE  To talk greetings and significance different cultures about their fromSPECIFIC OBJECTIVES  To learn how to present oneself and the others  To use the verbs to be, to do, to have, the possessive adjectives and pronouns in a communicative context

Preparation
In this topic, we are going to learn how to greet and introduce ourselves, say where we come from and some more details about ourselves. Let us then begin with a play called “name game”. Instructions: You willuse only your first names while playing the game. The class sits or stands in a circle.

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Use something small, like a tennis ball or a paper ball. Say your name and throw the ball to a student. Or threadto make a cobweb. This student quickly says his or her name and throws the ball to another student. Continue until all students have participated. We play the game again, but this time round with students saying the name of the person they are throwing the ball to.

After the play
There are as many different types of greetings as there are cultures in the world and the meanings of suchgreetings remarkably vary from one culture to another. Hence, you are asked to share on the importance of greetings as an expression of human relationships with someone next to you. Study and decide where the following greeting styles are used. Write the meaning of each greeting sign. Illustration Name and its meaning A handshake Country

A bow / kneeling or genuflecting before somebody A kiss on thecheek/ lips

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A hug

A pat on the back

Reflection Before we ask who somebody is we normally say a greeting and then proceed to asking personal information. Why do you think different culturesfollow this greeting formality? ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………….…

Presentation
It is important to greet somebody in our daily shows encounters our as this to expression begin a

willingness

conversation. It ison this reason that a mere greeting may express our positive attitude and disposition to frankly share with the others in different social gatherings.

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A. READING

Before Reading: Task (matchingideas) Match the following greetings with their corresponding responses Greeting A B C D E Hi Hello How are you? How do you do? What‟s up? 1 2 3 4 5 Fine Nice to meet you, too Fine, thanks Pleasure to meet you, too I‟m Peter (My name is peter? F G H I J How is it going? Nice to meet you Pleasure to meet you Glad to meet you So you are 6 7 8 9 from 10 Pretty good, thanks Thank you. You too. Hello...