Teaching Skills Input Session 6: Presenting New Language
Imagine you are trying to learn a new computer programme. Do you prefer:
- to be told how to do it?
- to be shown how to do it?
- to read how to do it in the manual?
- to try using it and find out for yourself?
- a combination of these?
Presenting Vocabulary
Presentation Options
Presenting New Language: Task 1
Which of these options would you choose to teach these groups of words?
a pet – to look after – to vaccinate
(intermediate)
to dig – to paint – to saw
(pre-intermediate)
grape – cherry – strawberry
(elementary)
slap – smack – punch
(upper-intermediate)
Presenting Grammar
Presentation Options
Approaches to Presenting Grammar
An approach to learning in which learners are given examples of a structure and they then work out the rules underlying them.
An approach to learning where learners are given rules which they then apply in the creation of examples.
