Name: Pipavat Gopi Class: M.A Sem 3 Submitted To :Department Of English

Bhavnagar Uni. Topic Name: What Is The Difference

Between Task And Exercise ?

What is Task ? a piece of work

that must be done, especially one that is difficult or that must be done regularly.

Definition The smallest identifiable and

essential piece of a job that serves as a unit of work, and as a means of differentiating between the various components of a project.

A piece of work to be done or under taken.

A task is any activity that learners engage in to process of learning a language. (Williams and Burden, 1997:168)

An activity which required learners to arrive at an outcome from given information through some process of thought and which allowed teachers to control and regulate that process was regarded as a task.

A task is a communicative act that does not usually have a restrictive focus on a single grammatical structure and has a non-linguistic outcome.

Tasks are free. Students are given free will to use language for communicative purposes.

Focus on multiple skills rather than on one.

Tasks are used in context. Tasks are communicative and

usually authentic. Tasks are meaningful and focus is on

content. Correction of tasks is delayed and is

done through observation and awareness raising

Example of a Task: Pedagogical tasks simulate real-life tasks. Planning a party. Learners will be asked

to do the following: agree on what they need for the

preparation, choose the place where the party will be

held, prepare for the party, –write invitation

letters… write invitation letters…

What is Exercise: A type of physical

activity defined as a planned, structure and repetitive bodily movement done to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness

An exercise usually has a restrictive focus on a single language element, and has a linguistic outcome.

A language exercise is guided and controlled by the teacher.

An exercise usually has a restrictive focus on a single language element, and has a linguistic outcome.

The focus is usually on a single skill.

There is no reference to the context. A language exercise is not

communicative and usually not authentic.

It is not meaningful and the focus is on form rather than on content.

Correction is usually done immediately.

Examples of Exercises:

Example of a Language exercise Fill in the blanks with the simple past form of

these verbs: write, go, have, study, buy. Yesterday, Nancy______to school and

______English. Last week, Leila________ an interesting book

about the history of the United States. We______a delicious breakfast this morning. She _______ an email to her pen pal last night.

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