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Part 2: Drilling Grammar and Useful Phrases

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Substitution drilling

Let’s try it…

Substitution drilling

Would you like to ... tonight?

Let’s....tonight. How about ..... tonight? (-ing verb)

1. see a movie

2. have dinner

3. play squash

4. go clubbing

Substitution Drilling

• Discuss with your partner:

1. How is this drilling different from simply repeating after the teacher?

2. When could you use this type of drilling?

3. How is it useful for Ss?

Substitution drilling-Main benefits

• Builds accuracy, fluency & confidence

• Helps learners get their tongues

around new language

Remember to do language presentation

before drilling so Ss understand what

they’re saying

Activities to reinforce Substitution Drilling:-Mallet’s Mallet

- Coloured Paper game

1) In pairs, create a substitution drill for your area

2) A people find B people

3) Practice your drill with your new partner

Considerations for drilling longer phrases

Q: What extra factors do you have to consider when drilling longer phrases?

2) Intonation

3) Sentence stress

Discuss: How do you drill intonation and sentence stress with your students?

Feedback: Longer phrases

• Backchaining/front chaining

• Intonation-Say words/phrases in gobbledegook ( Doo-di-di)

• Sentence stress-Beat out stress on desk, or in the air, click fingers, Ss stand on stresses etc

What time did you get up yesterday?yesterday/ get up yesterday/did you get up yesterday/

what time did you get up yesterday?

Over to you….Practice drilling these longer phrases with a partner.

Think about backchaining, intonation, sentence stress, etc

• If I had enough money, I’d go on holiday.

• You should’ve gone to the doctor.

• I’m going to the shops.

• I can swim/I can’t swim.

• Would you like to come to the cinema with me tonight?

CE Tasks Useful Language Sections

Discuss with a partner:

1) How do you deal with the Useful

Language Boxes?

2) Could you use any of these new

drilling techniques for the Useful

Language boxes?

CE Tasks Useful Language Sections

Feedback: Our Ideas

1. Complete the sentences in a) so that they’re true for you. Can walk to centre of room for this.

5. Use goddledigook for intonation of phrases

2. Give Ss cards with controversial statementsand they need to walk around showing different

Ss. The Ss then respond using a cue from b)

3. Tic-tac-toe with the statements in a)

4. Backchain the phrases

Useful Language Tic Tac ToePersonally, I (don’t)

think…It seems to me that… I think it’s wrong to…

Everyone should be free to…

I don’t really haveany strong opinions

about this.

I agree in some ways but…

I think it depends on…

I completely agree. I’m afraid I don’t agree at all.

Give pairs some statements, such as:- Mothers are more loving than fathers.- Men are more successful in business than women are.- In 2050, Chinese will be the most important international language.

In pairs, students take turns using these statements to give their opinions.

Any Questions?

For more info on drilling, visit the NING: http://navitasenglish.ning.com/

Or, these slides plus some ATTC handouts at U:drive in Workshops Folder