Accuracy Drills

For teaching accuracy, teachers can use drill-based activities, such as asking the students a question in which
they will need to confirm their understanding of the grammar concept in a more developed response. For
example:

Teacher: What did the person do before he/she washed the floor?

Student 1: The person washed the windows before he/she washed the floor.

Teacher: Good. Now, what did the person do after he/she washed the floor?

Student 2: The person washed the car after he/she washed the floor.

Have the class repeat these sentences, isolating the word in past tense ‘washed’, while explaining the use of
‘before’ and ‘after’ to combine the two actions. For students having difficulties, teachers correct them and may
choose to explain the grammar rule to them again. In the end, students should be asked to form their own
sentences about things they did the day before or week before, conjugating the verb into the past tense in each
sentence.

Changes in verb tenses can also be drilled by giving the students a sentence and then asking them to transform
the sentence based on the given time. For example:

Teacher: She is going shopping. (yesterday)

Student: She went shopping yesterday.

Teacher: I called you. (tomorrow)

Student: I will call you tomorrow.

etc
Singular subjects to plural subjects can be drilled by simply giving students sentences and asking them to
transform them appropriately from singular to plural and vice versa. For example:

Teacher: The man was working hard. (plural)

Student: The men were working hard.

Teacher: The goose is flying in the sky. (singular)

Student: The geese are flying in the sky.

etc