assignment for week 8

Shall tasks be “open” or “closed”?
As a teacher, we face the choice of giving tasks to our students, and to be a good teacher, it is important for us to design the tasks properly.
I have lots of experience in giving tasks to my students. But most of the tasks are closed due to the requirement of the syllabus or the approaching tests for my students. While I also tried once or twice giving them open tasks and it was really successful.
I love the kind of trial and surely we always slide between the two extremes of “open” and “closed”; the principle shall be “the tests we design are up to our purposes”.
It is better to combine both creativity and constraints, and it is possible to put it into practice in our own classroom. We can do it if we want to J

Let's improve our English in enjoyment

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II. CBS - a website with information in varieties

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III. iteslj - a website to the whole world of English learning

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This is a website that offers links to various websites. They are all about the four skills of English learning, and it is for second language learners in particular. You will be attracted by it when you begin to try just some interesting links. It is just a collection of all kinds of interesting aspects of the world of English that you can never imagine. You name it, it offers it. It covers various aspects which include culture, quotations, how to survive in alien places, so on and so forth.