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Teaching grammar - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Repeat the grammar item on its own
      - Variations on the variations
        
        Loudly
        
        As a whole class ('choral')
        
        As a half / quarter of a class
        
        As an individual in front of the whole class
        loudly
        
        Quietly
      - You give part of sentence, students complete it
      - Repeat only the stressed syllables in a sentence then later put back' the missing syllables
      - Repeat a sentence, building it up bit by bit, starting with the first word (s)/ syllable(s)
      - You give opening of sentence, students complete it
      - Repeat the grammar item in a phrase / sentence
  - - - Do it as individuals, then compare and discuss answers with neighbours
      - Work in pairs
      - Work in small groups
      - Work in teams - make a competition out of it
      - Do it together on the board -teacher-led
      - Do it together on the board - student-led
      - Hand out a jumbled list of answers to match to the questions
      - Do it orally in a language laboratory
      - Dictate the sentences, leaving spaces where the missing words are
  - - - Write a short dialogue
    - - 1 Use board pictures to establish the context and the characters verv clearly
      - 2 By using mime, gestures, questions or picture cues, try to elicit from the students each line of the dialogue you have prepared
      - 3 When the students say sentences in response to the eliciting, you need to select a suitable one, correcting it if necessary
      - 4 Restricted output: drills, exercises, dialogues and games
      - 4 You must now establish this line of dialogue
      - 5 Steps 2, 3 and 4 are repeated for each line
      - 6 There are also frequent repetitions of the whole dialogue to date (in pairs, perhaps, or by dividing the room into two halves)
    - - Writing it out
      - Acting it out
      - Continuing it
- - - - Geberate more sentences
- - - - Initially learners are given restricted exposure to a large
        number of instructions (eg Walk to the door, Pick up Jolanda's pen).
    - - Lessons are centred round a task, ie the learners have to do a particular assignment