43387 (The English grammar), страница 5

bHe used to go fishing every week.

cShe must have gone out.

2Swap questions around and get each set modified or developed by others in your group.

3Discuss.

Procedure B

1. Write concept questions for a particular structure.

2. Ask colleagues to try to guess what is being checked.

Procedure C

1. Get each person in your group to prepare concept questions for different items.

2. Shuffle the items and questions.

3. Get the whole group to match them.

Task 3

Aim

To consider the most suitable approach to use when presenting and practising a structure.

Procedure

1. Think about a class you are familiar with – perhaps your TP group or a class you are observing.

2. Which approach would you use – inductive or deductive – to present or revise the following structures? How would you illustrate and check the students’ understanding of the meaning of the structures?

aThe present perfect to talk about experience of events before ‘now’: for example, I’ve seen ‘Cats’ six times.

bWays of expressing likes and dislikes: for example, I really like…, I hate …, I absolutely adore …, I can’t stand …, etc.

cA comparison of the uses of so and such: for example, He’s such a good dancer. He’s so good. We had such good weather. The weather was so good. That’s such good news.

3Compare your ideas with a colleague.

Comment

1. You may, of course, consider that these structures are not suitable for your class or that you would choose different examples to illustrate the language.

2. You may be able to try out your ideas in a lesson with the class.

* When you write the language up on the board depends to some extent on the students – some feel more secure if they can see the target language written up as soon as it is focused on. You can put the target or model sentence on the board (in Step 2 above) and then add to it after oral practice (in Step 6). Or you can write up the sentence but rub it off before oral practice. In this way the students are listening to, rather than reading, the sentence and their own pronunciation is likely to be better as a result.