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Activities that are truly communicative, according to Morrow (in Johnson andMorrow 1981) have three features: information gap, choice and feedback. Aninformation gap exists when one person or a party, the writer or the speaker, theone who gives a written or an oral piece of information in an exchange, knowssomething that the other person or party, who receives it, does not. In acommunicative situation the speaker has a choice of what /s/he will say and how/s/he will say it. If the sentences and structures are prescribed by the teacher, wecannot speak about the free choice of language. The receiver of the message, whois the listener or the reader, is supposed to react, to give feedback to the piece ofinformation got from the speaker or the writer. That is the reason, why a lecture ora presentation is not a communicative activity. J.Harmer (2003) describescommunicative and non-communicative activities as follows:
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