Ideas in Action: Activities for Task-Based Learning provides EFL teachers with a balance of theoretical insights and engaging tasks that can be used immediately. Activities for Task-Based Learning helps teachers ensure that meaningful communication takes priority over focusing on pre-selected language forms. This book is primarily intended for the general English adult and teenage classroom, but the ideas can be adapted for most teaching situations. Activities for Task-Based Learning: is dedicated to tasks created especially with TBL in mindoffers a variety of text reconstruction activitiesoffers strategies for helping capture and exploit emergent languageprovides suggestions for designing consciousness-raising tasks Additional features and resources include: photocopiable worksheets accompanying most tasksvariation, extension, task repetition suggestionsauthentic recordings available for free on the DELTA Augmented applanguage feedback optionsfollow-up suggestions

Neil Anderson is Senior Trainer at International House Budapest, where he works as a teacher, CELTA and DELTA trainer. He began teaching in 1997 and has taught and trained in the UK, Switzerland and Hungary.