Practising structures

Porntip Bodeepongse

Workbook Activity 1
Look at different ways of practising the structure, and decide which ones are most useful.

Repetition drills
Easiest way would be to do a repetition drill: Ts gives examples and gets the class to repeat them; Useful as a first step only, just to make students familiar with the structure; Limited form of practicestudents have to do almost nothing
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Substitution drills
Ts gives prompts and gets students to give the examples. This would keep the class more active and give students practice in forming the structure themselves. Prompts can be a whole sentence, a phrase, a word or a picture.
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