Presenting and

Practicing Grammar
Tieng Anh 1 Family and Friends National Edition

Mark Richard
Asia Educational Services Manager
Oxford University Press
April 3, 2021
Presenting and Practicing Grammar
Agenda

• Introduction: Grammar
• Presenting Grammar
• Practicing Grammar

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 Introduction
Which aspects of learning grammar do these
pictures represent?

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Introduction
Which aspects of learning grammar do these
pictures represent?

Notice

Use Structure

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The Noticing Hypothesis

The process of learning implicit knowledge

SLA Research and Language Teaching (p.119)
by Rod Ellis, Oxford University Press 1997

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Noticing

The process of paying

attention to the linguistic
form of the input learners
receive and the output
they produce.

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Structuring

The process of
experimenting and
building sentences which
use the target form.

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Using

Students internalize the

form and can produce it
fluently and automatically
to achieve their
communicative goals.
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Typical grammar lesson plan

1. Warm up / Review

2. Present grammar point

3. Practice exercises

4. Production exercises

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1 The children study
the grammar
structure for the unit.

2 The children learn

a song which
includes the target
grammar and
vocabulary.

3 The children
practice saying the
grammar structure. Unit 6, p. 43
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Presenting and Practicing Grammar
Agenda

• Introduction: Grammar
• Presenting Grammar
• Practicing Grammar

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Four principles for
presenting new forms

1. Create a context for the

new language.
2. Relate new language to
previous language.
3. Focus on the form.
4. Check comprehension.

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1. Create a context

Create a context for the new language. In other

words you need to show learners how the language
is used, and what it means. When used in context,
new language becomes much clearer.

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1. Create a context

Chatbox question:
How would you
create a context for
this grammar point?

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1. Create a context
Modes for showing grammar in context

Actions Songs
Stories

Visuals
Timelines Situations

Realia /
Puppets things
Video
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2. Relate new language to
previous language
Relate new material to language students already
know. This shortcut makes learning new material
less stressful. Bridging the gap between what is
known and what is unknown helps students accept
and retain new material more effectively.

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2. Relate new language to
previous language

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3. Focus on the form

Focus on the form of the new language in order to

help the learners remember and understand it. The
form of the new material should be presented
visually rather than verbally e.g.
• labeled sentences
• tables
• borrowed structures

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 Inductive Approach
I have a book.
I have two apples.
I have five sandwiches.
I have one dog and nine cats.
I have three eggs for breakfast.
I have one minute left, but many more slides.

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 a banana.
have

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I have
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4. Check comprehension

Check comprehension. It is important to check that

the learners have understood how to form and use
the new language. Give the students the chance to
use what they have learned.

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Presenting and Practicing Grammar
Agenda

• Introduction: Grammar
• Presenting Grammar
• Practicing Grammar

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Let’s sing!
Basic instructions from the Teacher’s Guide

• Look at the pictures and elicit

the food words as you point.
• Play the song for the children
to point to the six new words
as they hear them in the song.
• Say the words of the song,
without the recording. Ask
children to repeat after you
one line at a time.
• Play the track and have
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Speaking fluency and pronunciation
activities
• Silent mouthing >
Quiet > Loud
• Rhythmic chanting:
identify stressed
syllables
• Backwards build-up
chants (connected
speech production)
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Grammar and usage activities

• Substitute words
• Change the
perspective e.g. ‘My
/ I’ > ‘Your / You’
• Write a new verse!

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‘Point and say’ & ‘Let’s talk!’

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‘Point and say’ & ‘Let’s talk!’
More ideas for controlled > freer practice

• Reordering sentences
• Substitution drills
• Sentence squares

• Finish sentences
• Sentence charades
• Make sentences from pictures

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Sentence Squares

a
don’t money
bicycle

He have I

a piano doesn’t a book

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Grammar practice and production
continues through the unit

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Images all from: Tieng Anh 1 Family and Friends National Edition Student Book, Unit 6, Oxford University Press
Presenting and Practicing Grammar
Agenda

• Introduction: Grammar
• Presenting Grammar
• Practicing Grammar

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Grammar reference materials

General grammar activities for

younger learners – easy to adapt.

The world’s most famous grammar

reference tool for English teachers.

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Presenting and
Practicing Grammar
Tieng Anh 1 Family and Friends National Edition

Thank you. Goodbye!

Mark Richard
Asia Educational Services Manager
Oxford University Press
April 3, 2021