Activity G

Grammar practice

Grammar needs to be practised and it can be done within a variety of activities, not just by filling in exercise sheets. This activity looks at other activities to practise grammar.

Use of video

Materials and equipment

Video: Creating Learning Partners – Grammar Practice
TV and VCR

Preparation

Cue video clip Grammar Practice.

STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS

  1. Before watching the video, Grammar Practice, ask tutors to look for examples of how grammar work is embedded in the session. Show the video.
  2. Get their feedback on how grammar work is embedded and add your own observations.
  3. Remind tutors, before finishing with this section, that grammar needs to be practised in a variety of ways, such as in conversations, in writing assignments, in readings and even with games. For example, board games like those that ask learners to talk about something in the past provide good practice in the past tense.
  4. Also suggest that samples of grammar tests and activities be kept in the learner’s portfolio.


Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Richard C. Trench