1 Choose an interesting topic for your learners

TV show: “The Best Invention”

Win the money to produce

the product you have designed.

2 Decide what you want them to produce – what is the product/ outcome

Poster presentation of your designed product for the jury of “The Best Invention”

Think of a new product with which you will be able to win. It can be a funny or veryuseful product. The jury (your classmates) are going to decide.

1 Group: The jury is going to create a questionnaire for the evaluation of the posters.

3 Find or make the materials you need to demonstrate the task to learners

I will design a poster with:

http://prezi.com/

showing my invention!

My invention “My Smart Diary”:

• voice-recording device• mind-recording device• battery-operated headset with a USB plug-in• available in different colours• comes with CD-ROM which can transfer your recordings to a Word file

4 Select your tasked-based learning activityusing that handout of 7 types activities

Design the poster of a new product

5 Select the content language you will need for your example task

• invention• device• mind• voice• aim/goal• contest• to create

• to bring about• result• brand-new product• costs• to design• to sell• competitors

6 Write the scaffolding language that learnerswill need to help them do the talk

Working in groups:

6 Write the scaffolding language that learnerswill need to help them do the talkPresenting your product on a poster:

Welcome ladies and gentlemen...

We would like to present...

Our new product is extraordinary because...

The product we designed will be the next bestselling...

It consists of...

It works as follows...

6 Write the scaffolding language that learnerswill need to help them do the talkPresenting your product on a poster:

Our invention is far ahead anything similar on the market...

We do strongly recommend our invention because/ as...

Thank you very much for your attention.

The target audience will be...

It will satisfy/ meet the needs of...

6 Write the scaffolding language that learnerswill need to help them do the talkCreating a questionnaire:

You could also link this task to the 3 P’s:

- Price - Product- Promotion