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From Textbook Activities to Engaging Tasks: Your Essential Guide to Task-Based Learning (TBL) (FREE resource)

Are You Still Unsure How to Adapt Your Textbook to Task-Based Learning?


You’re not alone! Many ESL teachers who completed their initial TESOL certificate feel confident teaching grammar, vocabulary, and following textbook activities—but when it comes to creating tasks that get students talking, collaborating, and solving problems communicatively, they feel lost.

That’s why we’ve created this free 13-page TBL Transformation Guide — a sneak peek into our 250-hour TESOL Diploma.

What’s Inside?

  • 3 Common Textbook Exercises Transformed into TBL Tasks:
    We’ll show you exactly how to take a grammar exercise, a vocabulary activity, and a reading comprehension page — and turn them into dynamic, purposeful tasks students love.
  • TBL Cheat Sheet: The 3 Phases of a TBL Lesson:
    See a clear example of how the Pre-task, Task Cycle, and Language Focus work together — no guesswork needed.
  • Teacher Reflection Tool: Are You Teaching Activities or Tasks?
    A quick checklist to help you analyze your own teaching — and spot easy ways to shift into TBL mode.

What is Task-Based Learning (TBL)?

TBL is a methodology that puts meaningful, real-life tasks at the center of language learning. Instead of doing isolated grammar activities, students work together to complete a task, such as solving a problem, planning an event, or creating a project. Through these tasks, they naturally use the target language in authentic ways.