Teaching grammar to A2 Restricted output: drills, exercises, dialogues

Transformation drills

A completely different kind of drill is based on the students making their own sentence based on a model and information given by you. These are transformation drills, i.e. the student transforms a sentence of one kind into another form:

TEACHER: He's opening the cake tin. STUDENTS: He's going to eat the cake.

TEACHER: He's standing beside the swimming pool. STUDENTS: He's going to swim.

TEACHER: Susan's going into the post office. STUDENTS: She's going to buy a stamp.

TEACHER: The students are waiting at the bus stop. (etc.)