"Communicative approach”,

Based on methodology “communicative approach”, the best ways to make students produce using the vocabulary previously presented is develop linguistic competence. The communicative skill that human have to express their thoughts, feelings and experiences: drawings, gestures, sounds, colors, smells… that it is  realized on the relation between mind and body, that are established by culture, society, taste and personality. In this linguistic process we have the senses: sight, hearing, touch, flair, taste, knowledge of the language occur to the speech established by information in a context where we come to the textual aspects to establish that they are rules that are internalized in a natural way in the social aspect in which the individual belongs. In this way the people is stimulate to use his/her natural abilities: listening, reading, speaking and writing, for engaging discourse, going learning.

That’s why it is common students interacting one another to happen the language skill to be able to use that language appropriate to the particular social context. They do this in various configurations: pairs, triads, small groups and whole group.

The teacher is a facilitator of his student’s learning. Students are, above all, communicators. They are seen as more responsible managers of their own learning.

To these things happen, the teacher can to use activities such as:

1-      language games;

2-      scrambled sentences (jumbled sentences);

3-      - requiring they listen radio, TV, write e-mail, letter and so on in English;

4-      Reading  newspaper article; homework;

5-       picture strip story;

6-      role-play;

7-       and other: songs; flashcards; cartoons..

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Showing some examples:

A-    Strip story

B-     

1-Story in words

The dog chased the cat down the street. The cat ran into a house, but a lady with a broom chased the cat out of her house.

2- Story in pictures

Cat house girl boron

C-    Role – plays

1- Use your imagination and the pictures to answer the questions.

C-Scrambled sentences or jumbled sentences

 a    apple  the  mother  baby  red  he  gave

(Put the words in the correct order to make sentences)

D-    Giving details about the pictures .What do you see, hear and smell?(Look the picture)

F – Write lines about the pictures.

“Role-play – practice communicating in different social context and different social roles.”
By Teacher Netinha