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This paper has dual aims. One is to examine the appropriateness of teaching procedures for task-based learning focused on language skills and communicative activities in elementary school English lessons. The other is to discuss some strategies for adapting elementary school English textbooks to do task-based teaching (TBT) for fifth and sixth graders. The results are as follows: (1) Presentation-practice-production (PPP) is useful in a focus on forms lesson, where grammar points are taught particularly to lower-level third and fourth graders. Whereas TBT is useful in a skills lesson for higher-level fifth and sixth graders, where focus on form may occur as a result of something they hear or read. (2) Fifth and sixth graders should be taught based on TBT procedures with an initial focus on meaning which enable them to use the language they have already learned or known as maximally as possible while doing tasks. (3) The current textbook lessons based on PPP for fifth and sixth graders should be adapted to suit TBT procedures by reordering textbook activities, turning the activities into tasks or doing the skills lesson first and the form-focused work last. (4) The sample application of TBT procedures to a textbook lesson for sixth graders will help teachers reconsider the weakness and strength of PPP and TBT called ‘PPP upside down' and adapt textbooks for TBT procedures with focus on meaning first and on form last.