Structure Techniques

Grammatical Explanations
 Keep your explanation brief and simple.
 Use charts or other visuals whenever possible to
graphically depict grammatical relationships.
 Illustrate with clear, unambiguous examples.
 Do not get yourself tied up in knots over so-called
‘exceptions’ to rules.
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 Engage

 Study

 Activate
Engage
 Students and teacher look at a picture or a video of
a robot.

 They say what the robots are doing.

 They say why they like or don’t like robots.

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Activities where students are asked to focus in on
language and how it is constructed.

A variety of different styles:

 Explanation: the teacher explains grammar

 Discovery: students can be encouraged to understand

new language forms either by discovering them for
themselves in a text, or by looking at grammatical
evidence in order to work out a rule
 Activate

 Exercises and activities which are designed to get

students using the language as freely and
communicatively as they can.

 Activate exercises offers students a chance to try

out real language use with little or no restriction.
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Grammar = Fun