Glad it was helpful!

The pairs can do the same information gap task. You don't need to prepare a different one for each group.

@@cambridgeenglishtv thank you for the answer. Please keep doing videos like this. I would like you to make videos about speaking activities and how can teachers encourage students to speak in English.

Yes, please do :)

I see your point about the writing task being an exam task. But as I understand it, tasks should have face value for learners and if they give true or false information as a response to a task is not really relevant. So, the speaking (grammar) exercise they give with the bag apparently does not resemble real life and, although some students might still enjoy it, most students would not see much value in it as a real-life task. In contrast, they would see value in the writing task because it could indeed happen that their friends may write to them asking for advice visiting places in town and if they tell the truth or lie - that's up to them. I understand your idea about doing real research to give suggestions. It sounds like it would be a task for higher-level students where they would have to combine reading with writing like say EAP students often need to do. So this supposedly would help avoid "making things up". However, then it also seems like only those tasks that are based on texts (oral or written) would count as "tasks" because it's possible to verify if students give true or false information. Which means listening and reading would have to precede speaking and writing because for any other speaking or writing tasks, where students need to express their opinion or talk about their experiences, they can lie (because it may be easier under circumstances). For example, being an English learner, I could see myself say "Yes, absolutely" to an Ielts examiner's question simply because it's easier to agree and give reasons why than to partially agree (if that's what I really think) and discuss both yes and no. But it's up to me to choose what I say. If I lie, I realise I do it because I am not confident in expressing my opinion. But I still see value in the task because it resembles real life.

Yes, absolutely. As long as the task is appropriate and achievable.

Although this is my first time learning about TBL I will take a stab at answers: 1. When listening to the machine say what the issue is with the ticket the audience will gain information they were missing before (the issue with the ticket) and once they have gained the knowledge they can then find a ticket agent and explain what they need (another task), or simply press another button on the machine to allow them to do a group check in (if such a thing were possible). TBL isn't just about a communication problem- it's an information gap. The person is missing info and needs to ascertain what he is missing. 2. Again, the communication is not just about person to person. Here it is what two graphs are showing and how to understand and analyse them, which is information a person just glancing at them cannot quickly ascertain. 3. Again, it is the same question you've stated twice, but now coming outright with it. I believe the communication in regards to how these speakers are using it is filling an information gap, either by listening to something (from another person, a message, or otherwise), reading something (an email, a graph, etc), or seeing something (they did not mention this, it just seems to follow)

Thanks for liking

You're welcome!

No

i guess there is none