Kilicheva Mehriniso Rajabovna Ataboyev Nozimjon Bobojon o’g’li

Example of a consciousness--raising task 

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1. Listen while you teacher reads out the passage about Monika 
Kovac. You can write down key words.
2. Listen again.
3. Now work in pairs and try to write the passage out.
4. When you have finished write a grammar rule to explain when to 
use the simple past tense (e.g. ‘won’) and when to use the present 
perfect tense. 
Monika Kovak is a tennis player. She is only 14 years old, but she has 
already won many tournaments in her life. She started playing tennis 
with her father when she was three years old. Two years ago she went 
to America to a famous tennis school in California. Monika and her 
father have travelled to many countries. She has played in several big 
tournaments. Last month she went with her father to a tournament in 
Australia. Monika played well, but she didn't didn't win.
There are many ways of revising and consolidating grammar, but 
I've found it's often useful to give students short passages containing 
grammar mistakes which are characteristic of the student's level, 
nationality, and what the teacher may have identified as areas of 
particular strength or weakness.
What kind of grammar? 
I've been teaching in Italy for several years, and Italians 
characteristically use the 
Present Perfect
to describe the past. Thus, 
‘Yesterday, I have bought a new computer,' is a very typical mistake, 
even for Italian-speakers at an upper-intermediate level, because it's a 
direct translation from the Italian to English. I've used the example 
passage included below, (‘Carl Smith'), with many intermediate level 
Italian students. It contains several instances where Present Perfect is 
used erroneously instead of the simple past. The intention is not to 
catch the student out, but to identify and focus attention on areas of 
difficulty which may still be problematic. 
Other characteristic and problematic grammar points at this level 
for Italian speakers include the use of