PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES

Inductive Method

Presentation techniques are the ways used by the teacher to focus learners’
attention on the meaning, use and sometimes form of new language, when
introducing it to them for the first time.

INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES
Deductive Method
Introductory activities are activities used by a teacher to introduce a lesson
or teaching topic.
 Presentation,Practice and Production (PPP)

• Has a language aim. Focus on Form

• Contextualizes
• Elicit
• Modelling / Choral Drill
• Present New Language
• Controlled or Restricted Practice
• Grammar Explanation
• Concept Questions
• Semi-Controlled Practice
• Freer Practice
TASK-BASED LEARNING (TBL)

• The aim is to complete a task.

• Contextualising.
• Miming
• Realia
• Texts
• Visuals / Flashcards
• Analysing the language.
• Consolidation.
• Focus on Meaning
 GUIDED DISCOVERY

• Underlining examples of target language.

• Discussion / Language induction while the task.
• Focus on Form

TEST – TEACH - TEST

• Task to evaluate the students’ performance.
• Using a Reading or Listening text.

Etc.
 Introductory Activities

• Warmers / Warm-ups.
• Lead-in.
• Ice-breaker.
 Warmers
Warmers are often used to raise
students’ energy levels or to make
them feel comfortable before the
main learning of the lesson starts.
They are not always connected to
the topic of the lesson; for example,
they could be a quiz, game or pair
work activity.
 Lead-ins
Lead-ins introduce the content of the lesson.
Their aim is to focus and motivate students and
make a link between the topic of the lesson and
the students’ own lives (personalisation).

These activities will probably involve pre-teaching

(teaching language before students meet it in a text)
key vocabulary for the texts and comprehension tasks
that follow or remembering previous topics.
 Ice-breakers

In some classes students don’t know one another at

the beginning of term, or new students often join the
class. In this situation teachers sometimes do another
kind of introductory activity called an ice-breaker. The
aim of ice-breakers is for students to get to know one
another so that they all feel comfortable with each
other in the class.