Friday, October 27, 2006
The simplest and most controlled of these types of activity is a repetition drill - the teacher simply says a sentence containing the target structure (or even just the lexical item being taught) and the students repeat it. This can be done :
The staging Silent - Choral - Individual repetition is in increasing order of challenge for the student and should generally be done in that order. If students are having problems, however, it may sometimes be useful to backtrack to an earlier stage.
Here are some dos and don"ts for using repetition drills effectively :
Flashed Phrases
To improve "Reading Aloud Skill", Flashed phrases Technique is highly practical. The teacher underlies various phrases such as ( verb phrase, noun phrase, preposition phrase……..) in reading texts and then the teacher instructs the students to see and read words comprising each phrase together. This helps the students to increase their "vision scope" and put aside "eye-fixation" technique in which students see and read words individually. What follows is a sample text in which various phrases have been underlined.
This is a picture of a park. You see some people in it. David and his father are sitting on a bench. David"s father is reading a newspaper, but David is eating an ice-cream.