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6. Interactive activities
There are a lot of effective interactive techniques and activities 
which can be considered as innovative technologies and their using 
in the teaching process contributes for development of the language 
and reflexive skills.

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 An information gap is based on the need to understand or 
transmit information. It aims to promote speaking activities. An 
information gap is a situation in which a participant or a group 
possesses information which others do not have, while others 
command information that the first party is missing. For example: 
students find out what is in a partner’s picture. An information gap 
can take the format of an opinion gap when the participants differ in 
their opinions. The gap is filled in the course of an active 
communication. Any activity with the information gap can be turned 
into a communicative game if there are rules to name the winner.
An alternative variant of information gap which can be used 
with school children: One student may give a set of directions or 
commands to another student, who will carry them out to meet some 
stated goal. For example, Student A goes to the blackboard and
Student B goes to the back of the room and faces the back wall, with 
a drawing in hand (simple geometric shapes). Student B then gives 
step-by-step directions to Student A so that A can reproduce the 
drawing. This activity can be followed by a debriefing if the 
directions have not produced a configuration fairly close to the 
original. 
Jigsaw reading activity is organized most often with the texts 
that are meant for reading or listening. A text is divided into several 
parts. Every participant has an access to only one part of the oral or 
written text. They ask each other questions and provide information 
to pool the parts of the text together and to know the contents of the 
whole text. Another variant is jigsaw listening when each participant 
or a small group listens to only some information as a part of the 
whole. These pieces can be brought together only in the course of 
active communicative efforts.