Learning Aims and Outcomes for teaching Speaking

Topic 1: Learning Aims and Outcomes

Look at the textbook activity. Think about the order of the tasks in the activity. Then read the text.

Activity C

In Activities A and B on the previous screen, students focus on saying words and then using those words to ask and answer questions. Both activities are controlled. Students say specific words or followed a model conversation. The words (food-related words) and the grammar (questions, answers, using too and not either) support the learning outcome (can discuss food they and their classmates like and do not like).

The learning aim of Activity C is to survey members of the class about food likes and dislikes. This activity recycles the vocabulary and the grammar from the previous activities. However, in this activity, students move a step further and come up with their own questions. They also have to present results orally to the class and discuss their classmates as well as themselves (requiring a variety of forms, such as He likes bananas. They do too. She doesn't like . . . Neither does he.)

To summarize, this sequence of three activities began with controlled activities that practice vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammatical forms. These lead into a more open-ended activity. In this activity, students needed to use new and possibly old vocabulary and grammar to complete a task. At the end of the sequence of Activities A, B, and C, students can discuss food they and their classmates like and do not like. All three activities help students reach that learning outcome.