tailieunhanh - Teaching grammar creatively part 10

Earl Stevick's research has encouraged us in our search, Stevick (1 9S9) analyses the widely varying strategies used by seven excellent language learners. One of these, Ed, is a highly successful learner who draws on three resources when speaking or writing | NEGATIVE WANT SOMEBODY TO LEVEL Intermediate Section A TIME 40-60 minutes AIM - to highlight the verb pattern don t want noun phrase to-infinitive. DISCOVERY 1. Prepare thirteen word-cards that when mounted on the board will be visible to all the class. Each card should display one of the following words and these cards should be sequenced as follows I you go to want don t her he wants them doesn t stay they As an alternative to cards plus Blu-tack or similar adhesive you can use post-it notes. 2. Stick the first card I onto the board. Hand the four successive cards .you go to want along with some pieces of adhesive to different students and ask them to stick them on the board so as to make a sentence. Ask the rest of the class if the sentence is correct and if it Is not correct it ie I want you to go. . 3. Hand out the next card don t to another student and ask the student to add it to the sentence. This will involve making room for it by moving the other cards slightly. Do the same with the next card her this time the student will need to remove one card you in order to replace it with the new one. Suggest that they form a column you her of words that belong to the same slot . 4. Continue in this way with the rest of the words. Allow the rest of the class to suggest where words should go but provide guidance if students are in doubt. Eventually the thirteen words should form the following table. You can tidy it up by aligning items and adding lines 1 you he i don t i want i j i go her to they doesn t wants stay them I i 5. Ask students working in pairs to produce as many written sentences as they can from this table. To make it more competitive you can set a time limit and then see which group has produced the most accurate sentences. Or you can set the groups a target of say twelve sentences there are 48 possibilities in ail and the first group to reach the target is the winner. 63 CONSOLIDATION 1. Copy and distribute or project the following signs and ask .