In this activity cycle we began by establishing the features that make tasks successful in the classroom. We then focused more specifically on the types of task that are most effective in promoting spoken interaction between students, and invited you to design speaking tasks for your own students. In the final section, we introduced the idea of using recordings of fluent speakers doing the tasks as a novel form of listening text that can provide highly meaningful exposure to authentic, spontaneous speech, and invited you to design a listening task of this type.