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Types of grammar practicex from accuracy teiKau£lKy

1)    awareness: stiidents have been introduced to the stmcture and they do a task that focuses their attention on its form or meaning. Stiidents are given extracts from newspapers and tliey are asked to find and underline all the examples of a eertain tense.

2)    controlled drills: learners produce examples of stmctures which are however predetermined by the teacher or textbook e.g. they have to write or say statements about John modelled on the example: John drinks tea bud doesn’t drink coffee.

a)    like: ice cream/cake

b)    speak: English Italian

c)    enjoy; playing football/chess

3)    meaningful drills; consistent with truth (about the children’s likes and dislikes), choice of the vocabulary is limited

4)    guided meaningful practice: leamers form sentences of their own according to a set pattern, but vocabulary is up to tliem e.g. If I had a million dollars, I would...

5)    (structure based) free sentence composition: tliey are provided with a visual or situational cue a picture that they sliould describe using appropriate tense

6)    (structure based) discourse composition: learners hołd discussion or write a passage according to given stmcture (task) e.g. they are directed to include modals

7)    free discourse: no specific directions to use structure