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Oral Drills
Term | Definition |
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Choral drills | The whole class repeats chorally after you. |
Individual drills | Individual students repeat when you indicate them and/or say their name. |
Silent drills | Before you model the target phrase, say Listen to me but don't say anything aloud. You have to repeat what I say silently to yourself five times but I'm only going to say it once. |
Silent drills | Give an example of mentally repeating the word 5 times. Cue the students with Are you ready? When they are silent, say it once. They repeat it to themselves silently. Then elicit the word back from them to see who can say it best or move until repetition |
Back chaining | T: in London. SS: in London. T: in a large Factory in London. SS: in a large Factory in London. T: he works in a large Factory in London. SS: he works in a large Factory in London. |
Presenting language orally | heads up don't ask students to speak too soon be as visual as possible elicit all you can from students |
Dialogue building | Tom: what do/ last night? where/go? who/with? which film/see? Nicole: out? cinema? boyfriend? |
Mingling | For any question/answer exchange, students can practice first in groups with the students near them, and then stand up, move around and ask the whole class. |
Splash | This involves word prompts on the board to drill sentences. Ask the class to tell you things they can or can’t do and put them on the board. But don't write them as a list. Instead, splash them on the board so there's no logical order to read them in. |
Spidergrams | These can be prompts on the board or on paper. Students are given a series of word or picture prompts around a theme, to provide a skeleton for a question/answer exchange. |
Noughts and crosses | A game played on a piece of paper in which two players write either O or X in a pattern of nine squares. It is won by the first player who places three Os or three Xs in a straight line. |