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Task 7. Try your hand at teachinga) Choose a grammar point (e.g., one of the tenses, the plural of nouns, the degrees of comparison of adjectives, word order in questions, etc.) and think of how you would present it a) to primary school students; b) to teenage and adult learners at elementary level; c) to high school students. Would you introduce your material inductively or deductively? What techniques would you use? How much would you go into technical detail for each group of learners? Give your presentation to the class. B) Using tables and diagrams A good way to present information about grammar is using tables and diagrams. There are many ready-made tables for sale, but you can make them on your own. Think of some ways to present grammar information in a concise visual way. Create a table or a diagram and present the grammar point in question to the rest of the class.
Task 8. Read the information given below and practice your skills: Grammar drill Grammar drill is a teaching/learning activity, which emphasizes rote learning, memorization and automation of language. There are the following types of drills: • formal drills such as substitution, completion and transformation, • functional drills such as receiving training in expressing a certain grammar meaning (e.g. futurity, priority of actions, types of modality etc) • meaningful drills such as using grammar in a broader situational context. Practising grammar starts with the formal drill, i.e. practicing grammar structures with the focus on language accuracy. The next step is functional drill, i.e. teaching how to express grammar meaning in separate sentences (e.g., saying what a driver should not do when coming across road-signs). The ability to express grammar meaning is necessary for the learners to pass over to the meaningful drill, i.e. communicating a message in a situational setting with a certain grammar focus (e.g. commenting on what people are doing in the photos from the family album and focusing on Present Progressive). "Two steps forward - one step back" is a strategy in practicing grammar. It means that the "meaningful drill" usually comes after the “formal drill” and the "functional drill". Instead of proceeding further to fluent communication tasks, the teacher returns to the "formal drill" again to reinforce the knowledge through language analysis. Formal drills
a) Match the type and the activity: 1. Substitution 2. Transformation 3. Completion
Date: 2016-04-22; view: 1181
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