Drill

What is “drill”?

practice involving repetition of an

activity in order to improve a skill.
 Types of drill
• Repetition
• Substitution
• Transformation drill
• Completion drill

TEACHER MODELLING -> CHORAL DRILLING -> INDIVIDUAL DRILLING

 Repetition

I enjoy playing football.

I enjoy playing football.

Tips: use body language, change volumes or tones

 Single-slot substitution

I enjoy playing football.

I enjoy playing football.

Cook

I enjoy cooking.

Be patient with sts’ misunderstanding

multiple-slot substitution

The cat is under the table.

The cat is under the table.

Dog … chair

The dog is under the chair.

 In substitution, Ts can use …
• Verbal cues
• Visual cues
 Verbal cue
• T: I like to play football.
• Sts: I like to play football.
• T: tennis
• Sts: I like to play tennis.
 Visual cue
• T: I like to play football.
• Sts: I like to play football.
• [T shows a picture of tennis]
• Sts: I like to play tennis.
Let’s practice substitution with visual cues
I like to play tennis.
 Transformation Drill

My mother is a doctor. NEGATIVE

.

My mother is not a doctor.

She gets up early. QUESTION

Does she get up early?

.
 Completion Drill

If I were you, I would …

.

If I were you, I would listen to her advice.

Would you like to …

Would you like to go drinking with me?

 Why drills?
• Form good language “habits”
• Work on the accuracy
• Aid memory
 Cons of drilling?
• May not be interesting
• May not be appropriate for older learners or high level classes.
• Work in pairs
• Each pair will choose a grammar point
• Get sts to practice drilling
 Practice activities
• Sticky balls
• Bingo
• Stories with mistakes
• Spot the differences
• Grab the bottle
• Shadow theater
• What’s missing?
• hot seat/pyramid/taboo
• Sharing
 How to give a clear instruction
Giáo viên chia lớp thành 2 đội. Mỗi đội xếp thành 1 hàng. Giáo viên sẽ
đọc to một câu chuyện, nhưng sẽ cố tình mắc một vài lỗi ngữ pháp. Khi
nào phát hiện được lỗi ngữ pháp thì 2 bạn đứng phía trước của 2 hàng sẽ
nhanh tay bấm chuông để sửa lỗi. Đội nào bấm chuông nhanh hơn và
sửa đúng thì sẽ dành được 1 điểm.
How would you give the above instruction?
 Give a clear instruction
• Break it into smaller parts
• Introduce each small part at a time
• Give examples and demonstrate it
Stories with mistakes
Sticky ball
Sticky ball
Sticky ball

Present continuous tense

 Sticky ball

Don’t just play game! Causative form

Variation
 Spot differences between 2 pictures

Practice the structures “there is”, “there are”, and prepositions

Change your chairs if ……….
 It’s a bit too noisy

 Play with your students

 Change your pads if …….

Grab the bottle

Ask students to say the words

and/or act them out
Hot seat
Pyramid
 Taboo

Sts are not allowed

to use taboo words
to describe the
target word.
Flash card: what’s missing?
Game: what job is missing?
Flash card: what’s missing?
Increase the difficulty
level: increase the
number of cards hidden
for one time.
 Words
Cat
Book
Tree
Radio
The Internet
Elephant
Simple sentences
I go to work at 7.
I go to bed at 11.
I love drinking beer.
I don’t like hamburgers.
 Shadow play
Shadow theater
 Are those
activities
controlled?
 Sharing

Share with your partner what you did yesterday.

 Write your own story

Write your own story, creating other memory problems for the woman.
 Find out your partner’s new job

• Each of you has had a new job.

• Work in pairs

• Make a list of at least 10 question with “Do you…?” to find out your partner’s new job.
 Draw your own monster

Draw your own monster and share with the class

 Are those
activities
controlled?
• DRILLS

• MORE CONTROLLED PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

• LESS CONTROLLED PRACTICE ACTIVITIES