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GENERAL INTRODUCTION
0.1 Problem Presentation

Teachers of English in DRC and specially those of Lubumbashi have been

using theories and techniques in order to make the Congolese system of
education suitable but they still wonder which Approaches, activities and
procedures can be applied for the teaching of grammar lessons at secondary
schools. For that very reason, this paper supplies activities and procedures
that can help teachers teach grammar lessons well.
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0.2. Choice and Interest of the Paper

During my pedagogical training which I did at Collège Rocher des

Âges secondary school I noticed that lots of pupils find it difficult to use wh-
words in my English class due to the fact that they did not practice them well
with their teachers. Therefore, I have deemed it good to write my paper on "
Better Activities for Practising Wh- Word to Third Form Learners".
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0.3 Aim of the Paper

This paper aims at providing my fellow teachers of English with

some communicative activities and procedures that can enable them to
teach wh-words perfectly.
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0.4 Methods and Approaches

This paper is based on both direct observation and the communicative

approach in order to determine and fulfil the real needs of learners.
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0.6. Research questions

The research in this work answers the following questions:

- Why is the communicative approach very important in the teaching of
wh-words?
- What are some of the best activities for teaching wh-words?
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0.7. Hypothesis

I assumed that writing in this domain which causes much

difficulties to learners would be beneficial both to my fellow teachers of
English and to learners.
Moreover, my assumption was that such a paper would help
teachers of English with their ability to use activities and procedures
supplied in it while teaching wh-words in the classroom in order to enable
learners learning English as a second language use wh-words well.
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0.8 Subdivision of the Work

This paper is subdivided into three chapters besides the general

introduction and the general conclusion. The first chapter talks about the
Theoretical Overview of Wh-words . The second chapter talks about
Grammar Teaching Method and the third chapter talks about Better
Activities For Practising Wh-words to Third Form Learners.