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Teaching grammar creatively part 16

There's an English saying that goes "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink". The same could be said about teaching grammar; you can teach the students the rules but you can't make them learn them. There are many reasons for this. The students may simply not understand the rules - this is especially the case for younger learners. | PRESENTATION OF MODEL TEXT 1. Write Gapped text B on the board and elicit the complete words. b Gapped text B 2 It was awful. When she heard that word she fell right back into that old trap of d h off---------g--------- of w to c into a m h of t back what she had s She was her old self again. 2. Read out the full text. 5ES7 Model text B 05 It was awful. When she heard that word she fell right back into that old trap of disliking herself Qy of fee ling guilty of wanting to creep into a mouse hole of taking back what she had said. She was her old self again. TEXT CREATION 1. Say that the topic falling back into an old trap need not be restricted to a feeling of unworthiness. 2. As another example present text C by reading it out loud displaying it for a couple of minutes etc. . Text C It was terrible. When he saw all the food in front of him he fell right back into that old trap of wanting all of it of being afraid of not getting enough I of stuffing himself of eating far more than he needed. He was his old greedy self again. 3. Present skeleton text C. The students use it to write a text. fen Skeleton text C ltwas------------ When_ fell right back into that old trap of of__ of of was old self again. 4. Publication of texts see p.l 1 . CHAPTSP. k Basic phrase paAems . . 105 IT S HIGH TIME. LEVEL Intermediate TIME 45-50 minutes Section A AIM - to introduce the expression it s high about time past tense. DISCOVERY 1. Say the sentence It s time you went to bed in the students own language and ask them to tell you how to say this in English. If the students don t know say the English equivalent two or three times and write it on the board. If the class is multi-lingual present the following situation Draw a stick figure of a young person watching TV above which there is a clock on the wall that reads midnight. Draw a second person - a parent - standing adjacent and pointing at the clock with a speech bubble. Ask students to tell you what is .