Group of secondary-aged learners working together to complete a task. The group has learners of different genders and ethnic backgrounds.

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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I will need help in navigating such amazing things. I am so poor in Technology. Thanks

I can collect plenty of practical task designs from these articles and videos. I can integrate digital tasks and real-life projects into my lessons. I will follow the three stages of TBL to make my speaking classes more communicative and student-centred.

Sir when Start course please tell about course when Start?

Hello - this course has already started. It is a self-access course, so you can complete the modules in your own time. Once you have enrolled, you should see the 'My portfolio' tab at the top of the page when you log in. Click on that, then 'My courses'. This will take you to our courses page where you can start working on the modules. Please let us know if you need help, and enjoy the course!
Cath – TeachingEnglish team

Hi ManaPrinceKoroma

Thanks for your comment.

If you are interested in signing up for this free course, you just need to click on the purple button above (Enrol on this free course). This will take you to our courses platform, where you should be able to click to enrol. 

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I hope that helps and that you enjoy the course!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Loved this course on communicative tasks for teaching English.So practical and inspiring!

Hi Theresah_

We're really glad you enjoyed the course and felt inspired by it :)

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

I want to study this course because I want to become a better English teacher. I teach primary school students, and I am always looking for new teaching methods and ideas to make my lessons more interesting and effective. I hope to improve my teaching skills, learn from experienced educators, and use technology to support my students' learning. I also want to continue my professional development and provide the best learning experience for my students.

Hi TaThanhTam

Thanks for your comment. The course is now open so if you haven't already signed up, you can do so now. Hope you find it useful!

Cath

TeachingEnglish team

Try to practice English well.

There is an issue in the course enrollment. Please, check.

Thanks Houria, we have just switched on our new site, and there are some things we need to configure. I think that you should be able to enrol now.
Thanks
Jack - The TeachingEnglish Team

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Hi everyone.I'm new in this platform and I want to know complete the course Thank you beforehand.

Hi GRaisa@-808
Welcome to TeachingEnglish! If you are interested in taking this course, you can click on the 'Enrol on this free course' button above. This will take you to our courses platform where you can access the modules.
All of our courses are free and self-access, meaning that you can complete them in your own time.
You can find out more about our courses on our FAQs page here: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/training/courses/training-courses-fa…

We hope you enjoy the course :)
Cath - TeachingEnglish team

It is an interesting course.