TAILIEUCHUNG - Teaching grammar creatively part 32

For this reason, many of the activities you will find in the Consolidation stage are not speaking activities but simply understanding tasks. For example, students may be asked to read (or listen to) a series of sentences -some including structure X and some including structure Y - and to match these sentences with the appropriate pictures. These kinds of activities are sometimes called grammar interpretation tasks, because they require the learners to interpret the grammar item rather than simply produce it. Such activities involve what researchers call input processing (as opposed to output processing). . | F I LEVEL Lower intermediate TIME 30 minutes EXTRAS None Section B PRESENTATION OF MODEL TEXT 1. Write whenever on the board. 2. Tell the students that it is the beginning of a sentence you have in mind. Ask them to shout words to you. Help them to guess what follows by using mime and gesture. Whenever a student gives you a correct word note it onto the board as below. Whenever my teacher looks at me through his thick glasses I feel very small. Variation If a student offers a word you aren t looking for write it to one side and try to use it to build up a new vertical text which incorporates it. Sometimes you can end up with several texts as shown below. This array was created in one of our trial classes with thirteen-year-olds at the beginning of their third year. CnAï iER 4 Complex sentences 217 TEXT INTERPRETATION 1. Get your students to read through the model text again. 2. Ask them to say why the writer feels small. Note their suggestions on the board. This is what a class of thirteen-year-olds came up with The writer - never does his homework - is new at school - plays truant - steals - doesn t like the teacher - is always nervous is bad at school - cheats a lot - plays lots of tricks on his teacher 3. Ask them to speculate what they think the reasons for the person s behaviour could be. Note these speculations on the board too. Here are the suggestions from the above class The writer - comes from a broken home - has lots of problems with his parents - is often hit by his parents - s mother is dead. His father has no time. - is stupid - takes drugs - watches too much TV - is a bit crazy TEXT CREATION Ask your students to create their own texts based on the model text. The following texts were written by learners from the trial class Whenever Whenever my dog my football team eats his has lost food with a match his big our trainer teeth feels angry 1 feel and good so because do he doesn t . need any food for the rest of the day. 218 CHAPTER 4 Complex sentences

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