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

True sentences

The most useful drill may be one where the student is giving real information in their answers -in other words, there is communication as well as language practice:

TEACHER: STUDENTS: TEACHER: STUDENTS: TEACHER: STUDENTS:

What are you going to do after school? I'm going to play football.

And tonight?

I'm going to watch TV.

Are you going to watch the film?

No, I'm not. I'm going to watch the concert.

Task 162: Designing a drill

Devise a drill to work on practising Wh- questions about the past (e.g. Where did he go? What did they do? When did Mary arrive? etc.).

Figure 12.1 summarises a range of drill types. Pick the options you like.