Read the following article and compare the definitions of TAKS from Nunan, Richards and Rogers, Murphy, Willis, Long, Skehan, Ellis, Breen and which methodology was applied by the author of this study.

Long 1985	What people do in everyday life at work, at play, and in between?
Breen 1987	A range of work plans for exercises and activities in language instructions
Littlejohn 1998	Any proposal within the materials for actions undertaken by the learners to bring up the foreign language learning.
Skehan 1996	Meaning, task completion, the real-world and outcome are focused.
Willis 1996	A classroom undertaking for a communicative purpose to achieve un outcome.
Ellis 2003	A work plan that requires learners to process languages pragmatically to achieve un outcome
Nunan 2005	A piece of classroom work to convey meaning rather than to manipulate form.

All of the author show that a task is an activity to be developed by people in everyday life. On the other hand when talking about the task in a classroom we cannot forget that it is also an activity and as all the activities it should reach a goal and have an outcome which is the fruit or the richest part of a task well-done and directed.

2. How this study could be applied to your Project?

The way we can apply this research article is talking into account that a task is not a mechanism to keep the students occupied, but a way to take our students to walk into a new path of acquiring knowledge and in the English learning/ teaching process, task is one of the bases to know until what term our students are able to produce in a second language (in this case, English).

Bearing in mind the example proposed by the researcher, we are going to develop a reading task where the students are going to read a short tale.

Pre-reading: the students will be exposed to the title of the reading and they will be asked to talk about their inferences of it.

While reading: the students will read the first two paragraphs, then the teacher will make some questions about them, and their inferences about them.

Post reading: the students will talk about the whole tale and will debate about the moral of it.