Grouping students for different communicative

GROUPING STUDENTS FOR DIFFERENT COMMUNICATIVE
ACTIVITIES - ADI ISMA – [e-mail]
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C. Communicative activities for Grouping Students
Communication activities allow participants to focus on these skills and
understand their impact on the effectiveness of communication. Effective
communication activities work well for groups of all ages, including students in
the classroom and co-workers in a workplace setting. Adapt these activities to fit
the specific setting, ages and interests of the participants.
In teaching English process by grouping students for different
communicative activities, the teacher must improve the students skills, the main
important skills that must be improved are oral/ spoken and written skill.
1. Communicative activities in oral skill.
Below are some activities that can improve the students’ ability in oral
skill. Such as Story Forming, Identify the Object, and Role Play.
a. Story
Kids love listening to stories, but what about making a story of their
own. This exercise solely depends on the verbal interaction of the kids to form
a story. Narrate a gist of a story to the kids before starting the game. Cut out
some pictures of the same story from a book or you can even sketch it on your
own and laminate them. Scatter all the pieces of pictures in front of a small
group of kids and ask them to arrange it in a sequence of the story that they
have just heard by communicating among each other. Once they have finished
doing this, ask each one to narrate their part of story through the picture.
b. Identify the Object
These skills are more effective when performed in a group, so for this
you need to have a group of at least five to seven players. Blind fold one of
them and make him stand at the corner of the room. Keep an object that
requires an elaborate description to understand and to identify like a lamp, a
computer, a table fan, a toaster, etc. Now ask rest of the students to start
describing the features of the object one by one to the blind folded one. He
may also ask questions for further explanations and identify the object in the
stipulated time.

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