Hello, dear hassouna

 

The first two terms (a task and an exercise) differ in the choice of language students use to do them. Exercises are usually activities that strongly focus on the form of language, i.e. they relate to some specific and restricted language to be used. Thus, they are controlled practice activities. Contrariwise, if students deal with tasks, they not only use some specific language that is required, but also produce ideas with their own language. Tasks are not restricted practice activities, they imply a wider choice of language means to achieve an aim. They are freer practice activities.

 

For example, if your students are requred to fill in the blanks with some concrete language, it �s an exercise. And if they are wanted to write smth on the basis of recently learnt language, start communication or do smth else with real-world outcome, they do a task as they need some language variety.

 

Broadly speaking, an activity is a term replacing either an exercise or a task, as far as I �m concerned.

 

Cheers,

Nik 

thank you so much.

 

http://www.professorjackrichards.com/difference-task-exercise-activity/

 gives similar definitions to Niksailor �s.

 

For me, an exercise is is a grammar exercise you do for practice, such as fill in the gap or multiple choice. It is exercise for the brain.

A task is a job or assignment . The teacher tasks the students with something she wants them to do. It can be categorizing nouns, matching word to pictures, writing a paragraph.Students must stay on task and not get distracted.

An activity can be playing a game, making a craft, singing an action song. It is doing something active.