Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Grammar

Here are some grammar objectives for Stage 1 for listening:

• To understand simple sentences of the following types:

  • Positive statements
  • Negative statements
  • Commands
  • Questions

• To understand words, phrases, and sentences which include:

  • Descriptions
  • Identifications
  • Actions with direct objects
  • Actions without direct objects
  • Locations
  • Beneficiaries
  • Possessives
  • Manner

Here are some grammar strategies for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Identify basic clause types and include them in your language learning activities.

• Planning

  Set up your comprehension techniques to include various kinds of sentence types.

• Inferencing

  Once you have set up the activities to include a variety of sentence types, concentrate on the meaning of the sentences more than on the forms.

Here are some grammar techniques for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

• The Look and Listen techniques
• The Physical Response techniques

Here is a grammar activity for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

Listen to natural speech for grammatical features you have learned in structured time.

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Grammar
• In overview module: Stage 1: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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