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Task-completion activities: puzzles, games, map-reading, and other kinds of classroom tasks in which the focus is on using one's language resources to complete a task.

Information-gathering activities: student-conducted surveys, interviews, and scarches in which students are required to use their linguistic resources to collect information.

Opinion-sharing activities: activities in which students compare values, opinions, or beliefs, such as a ranking task in which students list six qualities in order of importance that they might consider in choosing a date or spouse.

Information-transfer activities: These require learners to take information

that is presented in one form, and represent it in a different form. For example, they may read instructions on how to get from A to B, and then draw a map showing the scquence, or they may read information about a subject and then represent it as a graph.

Reasoning-gap activities: These involve deriving some new information from given information through the process of inference, practical reasoning, etc.

For example, working out a teacher's timetable on the basis of given class

timetables.

Role plays: activities in which students are assigned roles and improvise a scene or exchange based on given information or clues.

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