Prompt cards

Working with prompt cards

These prompt cards can help you to prepare many different activities to practice oral communication. Preparation is very easy as long as the teacher has a very well stocked card index box or a very wide range of different situations at hand.
Les activités s’orientent le plus souvent possible au principe de « l’enseignement actionnel » The activities which are provided here are as closely as possibly aligned with the action-oriented approach. That means that learners of a language are primarily seen as ‘social agents’, i.e. members of society who have tasks to accomplish in a given set of circumstances, in a specific environment and within a particular field of action.1
When using these prompt cards, the following aspects are important:

• A concrete situation.
• A role which is provided or chosen by the learner.

These prompt cards can be used at any language learning level and only simple instructions/rules of the game will be needed. These should be easy to understand as well as simple to create.