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As with older learner, it is possible that teachers teach formal rules of the language but in context. The best way to do so is the deductive method where the students themselves deduce the grammatical rules. The teacher's role is helping them internalize them and use them correctly. The teacher must give many communicative exercises to bridge the gap between knowing grammar rules and using them.
LISTENING ACTIVITY - Objective: Students should able to use the wh-question words correctly. Pre listening: - Students look at a picture showing a woman giving a present to her friend and answer these questions: Where are they? What's the occasion? (prediction) What is a perfect gift for an old person (relate to background knowledge).Students predict what the listening be about.
Listening: - Students listen to the conversation between Lulu and her friend Bertha. (Maybe before asking students to write the 3 questions, students should listen for the main idea first and derive basic meaning. The teacher should probably check general comprehension of the input first. This can help students to understand the questions better. Focus on meaning before form. This continues the topdown process.) - Students write at least three questions that Lulu asked. - Students identify the question words used.
Post-Listening: - Teacher gives questions with missing question words. Each student has a card on which a specific question word is written .Teacher reads questions with missing question words. Students with the correct question word card hold it up and show it to their friends. - Students sit in pairs and complete a telephone conversation using what, where, and who. - Teacher divides the class into two groups. Students from different groups ask each other personal questions using where when and how.(conversing) In this activity both top down and bottom up techniques were used. Top down techniques were used when the students related the text to their personal experience and raised the correct whword card. The bottom up technique was used when the students had to complete the telephone conversation with who, what and where. Checking understanding was done through conversing when the students asked each other personal questions using who, what, and where. It was also done by choosing when the students had to choose the correct wh-word and raise it up. Reference: Teaching English in Context-Constance Weaver -Heineman. Posted by Ghina Al-Badawi at 8:18 PM