Additional note:

This is the way in which many learners will process sentences in English. A common complaint is that English is very complicated, and it is. Although tutors are not required to have an extensive knowledge of grammar, an appreciation of how complicated it is for learners (and how many things a learner needs to think about while speaking or writing) is important.

Drills (which are discussed in the grammar section of the manual) are a good way to give learners practice using a particular form, and will be discussed in Session 6.

Charting Words

• Introduce the rationale for teaching word forms and take a look at the example in the tutor training manual.

10 minutes

B: Word Parts

• Introduce the rationale.
• Show overhead, Word Parts.
• Define what each word is and give examples.
• Give the trainees the word agree and have them write as many variations of the word as they can.
  
  Examples include: agree, disagree, agreement, disagreement, agreeable, and disagreeable
  
  
• Ask trainees to describe which parts are the root, the prefix and the suffix of the written word. Which words are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs?
• Refer to the tutor training manual for additional information regarding word endings that denote nouns (such as -ment) and adjectives (-able).
• Introduce compound words.
• Ask trainees: How would you explain the following words to your learner? (Have trainees work in pairs.)