How to teach grammar

2.1 Teaching form

• 20 questions (questions)
• family portraits (possessives)
• describing a person or a place by using relative clauses
• information gap activity (practice different forms/patterns)
• sentence-unscrambling task (a problem-solving activity)

2.2 Teaching Meaning Making association between form and meaning

• realia and pictures (comparative forms)
• actions
• TPR (imperative form)
• matching: phrase-meaning association (phrasal verbs)
• story telling with action (phrasal verbs)

2.3 Teaching Use

• Role plays in different social contexts
• Example 1: giving advice
• Giving advice to friends
• Giving advice to young kids
• Advice columnist (speaking and writing)
• Example 2: past tense vs. present perfect
• Job interview
• Linguistic discourse context
• Teaching passive voices: focus on issues rather than agents
• a text completion task