Put the steps the TEXT-BASED GRAMMAR LESSON in the correct order:

1.

2.

Match the steps of the text-based grammar lesson to the aims

1. To focus on the grammar that is to be clarified.

2. To provide opportunities for the students to use the new language in a variety of contexts.

3. To give very controlled oral practice of phonological features of the grammar.

4. To ensure students understand the component parts of the grammar and how it is put
together.

To ensure students understand concepts associated with the grammar (e.g. time reference,
intention etc.) and the way it is used in native speaker language.

Complete the chart:

steps aims
Students read (or listen to) the text that To provide students the opportunity to
contains the target grammar. see the context that the target grammar is
used in.

Students highlight the target grammar in

the text.

Students check the meaning of the target

grammar.
Students check the form of the target
grammar.
The teacher highlights the pronunciation of
the target grammar (if it is typically used
for oral communication).

The teacher provides controlled (drills) and

later freer practice (meaningful
communication) of the target grammar.
 1. Define the target grammar:
2. Underline the examples in the text
3. What is the form, general meaning, communicative use in this text?

Troubled flight
This happened about five years ago. I came back home from Turkey where I was on
holiday with some friends who rented a bungalow in the mountains not for from Ankara, the
capital.
Anyway, we sat on the plane and just took off when there was a loud bang from the right
hand side of the plane and I could see a lot of smoke coming from one of the engines. Of course,
everyone started looking around but the plane carried on flying normally. And then a few
minutes later the pilot came out and said there was a problem with one of the engines and we’d
have to return to the airport.
I felt pretty nervous, I can tell you, but I tried to concentrate on my book and about ten
minutes later we landed without any problems. We had to wait for about an hour, and then we
got back on the plane. Actually it was a different plane, and I was pretty relieved that it was.

Suggest your communicative task for similar meaningful use of the target grammar.