Stage 1 guidelines for speaking: Grammar

Here is a grammar objective for Stage 1 for speaking:

• To form sentences of the following types:

  • Positive statements
  • Negative statements
  • Commands
  • Questions

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

Analysis Identify the characteristics of positive and negative statements, commands, and questions. Practice Use repetition and mimicry to help you. Selective attention Isolate a particular structure by using drills. Memorization Memorize some sentences to use at the beginning, even if you cannot create them yourself.

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

• The Single Sentence Pattern Practice technique
• The Structure Contrast Drill technique
• The System Drill technique
• The Survival Phrases technique

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

Use memorized survival phrases and power tools or recombine parts of sentences you have practiced in drills when speaking. Do not worry too much if you make a mistake at this point.

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for speaking: Grammar
• In overview module: Stage 1: Speaking 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.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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