Mini-lesson (10-15 min) 15.01.2013

Paulina Majka year 2 group B

The Audio-Lingual Method

Introduction:

• Audio-Lingual Method is an oral-based approach.

• It drills students in the use of grammatical sentence patterns.

• Habit-formation

A dialog from the text:

• Sally : Good morning, Bill.

• Bill: Good morning, Sally.

• Sally: How are you?

• Bill: Fine, Thanks, And you?

• Sally: Fine. What are you doing?

• Bill: I’m going to the post office.

• Sally: I am too. Shall we go together?

• Sure. Let’s go.

Activities:

1. introduces a new dialog

2. uses a backward build-up drill

3. uses a repetition drill (group)

4. initiates a chain drill (individual)

5. leads a single-slot substitution drill (replaces a word or phrase = cue) (shows pictures)