Communicative Fall Season/Halloween Activities

Created for ESL/ELL classrooms grade 9-12, adult education, Intensive English Programs, and community college English programs.

Learn more about Task-Based Language Teaching here.

Method:

Based on Task Based Language Teaching, these activities will liven up your speaking and listening classroom all in celebration of fall!

Rationale:

Task-based Language learning requires students to help each other to achieve a task. There is one solution to these activities and students must work together to complete it. Activities are designed for students to practice recovering from communication breakdowns. These activities help students with real world English because they are communicating for a purpose and achieving an end goal.

Level:

Students from CEFR A2 (high beginner) and above can participate in these activities with varying degrees of teacher support.

Outline of materials:

1. Warm-up Conversation Questions

2. Fall story gap fill

3. Halloween gap fill

4. Real World Court Case: You Be the Judge!

5. Order the story- Halloween Crush

Includes a Teacher Guide for each activity!

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