39 What are information gap activities?
(A) The students are given specific instructions that are modeled for them. They then perform an activity according to those
specific steps, using tools to practice the skills that they will need to demonstrate in the extension portion of the lesson.
(B) Students understand to communicate, providing opportunities in exercise to acquire new info (ex: from other disciplines.),
eliminating fictitious characters, and personalizing exercise to students' lives.
(C) They are task-based activities where one student has information that another student does NOT have but needs. Students
must interact with others by using the target language as means to complete the task.
(D) A kind of activity, which involves teacher explanations of rules followed by related manipulative exercises intended to
practice the new structures.
An information gap activity is an activity where learners are missing the information they need to complete a task and need to talk to each other to find it.