Chapter 10. Extended Activities

Extended activities reinforce the key features of communicative language teaching outlined in Chapter 1, What does Moodle offer language teachers?. In particular, they:

• Allow us to set up integrated skills work

• Create more opportunities for iterative work, which, with appropriate feedback from teachers, can further develop language skills

• Create more opportunities for peer-to-peer interaction

• Allow us to incorporate a variety of feedback types

• Can lead to a greater sense of achievement in students

Many of the activities in earlier chapters illustrate integrated activities in that they combine two or more skills. Here are just a few examples:

Chapter	Activity	Skills
3	Activity 3: Using comments in Glossary module for students to comment on their keywords	Reading and writing
4	Activity 4: Learning by repeating poems	Listening and speaking
5	Activity 2: Using the Lesson module to get students to notice grammar points	Listening and analyzing grammar
6	Activity...