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TeachingEnglish: Communicative tasks

How will the course help you?

By the end of Communicative tasks, you’ll be able to:

define genre
create communicative speaking and listening activities
design meaningful, real-world tasks.

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What are the self-study modules in Communicative tasks?

Module 1 – Engaging with genre: The aim of this module is to give you an understanding of what genre is and how a knowledge of genre can be useful. You will define what genre is, identify the purposes and stages of different genres as well as plan the stages of a writing lesson using a model text.
Module 2 – Engaging with speaking and listening genres: This module will help you create genuinely communicative activities that target specific speaking and listening genres. You’ll define genre in the context of speaking and listening, identify communicative activities for speaking and listening, and select and design appropriate assessment tasks that focus on communicative competence and appropriacy, not only language form. 
Module 3 – Putting task-based learning (TBL) into practice: This module will help you design meaningful, real-world tasks that promote communication, support learner autonomy and lead to purposeful language use.

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How to get certificate???

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Thank you for this opportunity... Amazing course

Thank you so much for this opportunity

Special thanks for providing these kind of classes

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I wanna ask you a question. At the end of the course we will get the certificate. So what is the process for certificate?

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Thank you for this opportinity to learn, to be inspired and to inspire my students.

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The course is open but I can't gain access to the course.

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