TASK Teacher explores the topic with the class, highlights useful words and phrases, and helps learners understand task instructions and prepare. Learners may hear a recording of others doing a similar task, or read part of a text as a lead in to a task. Teacher monitors from a distance, encouraging all attempts at communication, not correcting. Mistakes don't matter. Since the report stage is public, students will naturally want to be accurate, so the teacher stands by to give language advice.
Some groups present their reports to the class, or exchange written reports, and compare results.
Teacher acts as a chairperson, and then comments on the content of the reports. Learners may now hear a recording of others doing a similar task and compare how they all did it. Or they may read a text similar in some way to the one they have written themselves, or related in topic to the task they have done. They can enter new words, phrases and patterns in vocabulary books. Sometime after completing this sequence, learners may benefit from doing a similar task with a different partner.