DIFERENTIATE OF PRACTICE, ACTIVITIES, AND TASK

A. Foreword

Practice, activities and task are not strange for us, especially for students. May be, every day every student always fined this word in their school. All of them are different, but they have same function, that is as evaluator for every student. From practice, activities, and task a teacher can know the skill of their students and how long the students can understand and master the material that give by the teacher.

Some of students don not like, if their teacher give they a practice, an activities or a task, because they think it is very difficult to do or to finish it. It is not true at all. As long as writer know all of them is good, because from finish they all, we can know our skill.

So, in this paper writer try to explain differentiate and definition of drill/ practice, activities, and task.

B. Differentiate of Drill or Practice, Activity and Task

1. Practice or drill

Practice or drill is something that always given by a leader to their follower or given by a teacher to their students. So that, their follower or students can be wise in the future. Usually, practice consist of; exercise, task, assignment and etc.

For example:

The teachers give a practice, which is given some task or assignment to their students.

1. a person who prepares food

(a) cook

(b) overall

(c) advert

(d) care

2. house; dwelling; structure; premises

(a) building

(b) coverage

(c) monitor

(d) terminal

2. Activity

There are some definitions of activities;

- An activity can be something you are just doing, and it may or may not have any purpose. Someone may or may not have told you to do it

- An educational process or procedure intended to stimulate learning through actual experience

- Any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"

- The capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; "catalytic activity" (chemistry)

- A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"

For example:

The teachers ask the students to make an activity, such as in ESL

Kind activities in ESL

Strange Expressions

1. What does the expression "If I do not get a job soon, I will be up a creek" mean?

a. I like to swim instead of work.

b. Tomorrow, I will go to the creek to see if there is work there.

c. I will be in trouble.

d. I will be angry.

e. I can not swim, and I can not get a job.

2. What does the expression "out to lunch" mean when the person described is not literally having lunch?

a. The person is eating.

b. The person likes lunch and eats all day long.

c. The person is uneducated.

d. The person is not concentrating or focusing and seems weird.

e. The person has a great sense of humor.

3. If someone said, "You are the bomb!" she or he probably would be telling you:

a. You have a bad temper.

b. You are a war weapon.

c. You are exceptional and/or wonderful.

d. You are happy.

e. You are dangerous.

3. Task

There are some definitions of task;

- A work item that has to be completed according to specific criteria, usually with a deadline.

- A subunit of a job or the group of activities that accomplishes the work objective or job.

- Tasks are elements that an author uses to direct a player through a cartridge.

- A piece of work assigned or done as part of one's duties.

- Any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"

- A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee; "estimates of the city's loss on that job ranged as high as a million dollars"; "the job of repairing the engine took several hours"; "the endless task of classifying the samples"; "the farmer's morning chores".

For example:

Examples of Task Type and Matching

1. If I see him, I will give him your letter.

2. She is working in Sao Paolo.

3. Live been to China.

4. If I were you, I’d talk to him about it.

5. She was running along the High Street when I saw her.

A present perfect simple

B second conditional

C past continuous

D present continuous

E past perfect simple

F first conditional

Example 2, Option Matching

A. Visual Learner

B. Kinesthetic Learner

C. Auditor Learner

1 ... likes listening to stories in English.

2 ... enjoys miming activities for a partner to guess.

3 ... responds well to spoken instructions from the teacher.

4 ... needs to see words written down.

C. Conclusion

After read these explanation, we know that drill or practice, activities, and task are good, especially for students.

Because, if the students always do practice, activities, and task they can increase, add their skill, and also can be wise in the future. So, never be a lazier. Let’s do it.

D. Bibliography

M. Dauer, Rebecca. Accurate English a complete course in Pronunciation. New Jersey: prentice- hall, inc., 1993.

Wardiman, Artono. The Global Language for SLTP Students. Bandung: Grafindo Media Pratama, 2003.

Saukah, Ali. English for Senior High School. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. 1993.