Grammar Practice

(Exercises)
Consolidating and automatizing grammatical knowledge

Penny Ur. 2012. A course of English language teaching

• Scafolding :
Help students to make the leap from form-focused grammar exercises to fluent
production by providing tasks that encourage them to combine the two.
 Types of Grammar Practice
1. Awareness
2. Controlled drills
3. Meaningful Practice
Controlled Response
Guided meaningful practice
4. Communicative Practice
Structured-based free
sentence composition
Structured- based discourse
composition
Free discourse composition
Draw students’ attention to the form and/or meaning of a grammar point
used in context.
Students produce examples of a structure predetermined by the teacher or
material. It can be done without understanding of the input.
Sentences completion, rewrite or translation. Ss. need to understand to
answer.
Students follow a pattern for sentence production. They can choose the
vocabulary to be used.
Prompts are provided to direct students to use the structure in new
sentences.
Students produce spoken or written discourse using at least some examples of
the key structure.
No specific direction is given to use the structure. However, the task situation
will promote the appearance of the key structure
.
Awareness
Controlled drills
Controlled Responses
Controlled Responses.
Guided meaningful practice

Conditional clauses. Look at the following cue:

if I had a million dollars.
Suggest, what you would do.
Structured-based free sentence composition

Present simple. Look at the

pictures and write four sentences
saying what Peter does every day.
Structured based discourse composition.
Free discourse composition
Free discourse composition
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