Restructuring Activites

Dictate a text for students to write down notes. They compare their writing to the original text

• Dictogloss

• stop-go dictation

• meaning & patterns

• Key word constrction

Create a text with some mistakes for students to analyze and correct.

• Spot the difference

• Spot the mistake

• Dictogloss

• Stop-go dictation

Students identify the differences between two very similar pictures.

• visual thinking

• Key word construction

• Information gap with pictures

• Spot the difference

Note down mistakes during a speaking activity and ask learners to correct them and identify their context.

• immediate feedback

• reflective feedback

• post-speaking feedback

• conversational feedback

Students construct a text from key words.

• Dictogloss

• Text transformation

• meanings & patterns

• Key word construction

Transform a text from one form to another (from a text to a dialogue)

• summarization

• paraphrasing

• Meanings & patterns

• Key word construction

In pairs, one student does to read a text and dictate it to the other partner who writes down notes

• Board race

• stop-go dictation

• information gap

• find someone who

In pairs, students describe their incomplete pictures to each other in order to learn about a topic

• spot the difference

• information gap with pictures

• spot the mistake

• show & tell