TEACHING GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: Lesson Outline

TEACHING GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

STAGES FOR A GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY LESSON

1. LEAD IN: is the introductory phase which you do at the beginning of a

lesson / part of a lesson to introduce the topic and to raise students
awareness of it.

How do you do it?

- by showing a picture connected with the topic that you want to introduce and
asking questions.
e.g.: (you want to teach food vocabulary)
show picture of a restaurant
ask What is this?, Do you often go to the restaurant?, What food do you like?
write the topic on the board: food
ask more questions about food

- by telling a personal story

e.g: (same food vocab)
tell story: I went to a Lebanese restaurant the other day and had some really strange
food. I think it was vegetables with snake meat or something.
ask questions to lead students into the topic: What kind of food do you like?
write food on board

- by giving sts a quotation related to the topic

e.g.: (you want to teach vocabulary related to globalization)
put quotation on board: Globalisation is the saddest event in the economical world. It
leads to the unification
ask sts to talk to their partner and see if they agree or not and why
have students change the quotation in such a way as to make it closer to their own
opinion

- with real objects (called realia)

e.g.: (you want to teach food vocabulary)
bring real food and display it around the classroom, let sts look at it, smell it, why not
taste it? (they will start a conversation)

- with funny stories, poems, riddles, etc

2. TESTING: you ask students questions to see how much they know about the
topic.
e.g.: What is this? And this? What do you use to.?
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3. PRESENTATION: at this stage of the lesson you present the GRAMMAR /

vocabulary formally. You give the meaning, form, pronunciation, use of each
item of grammar/vocabulary.

4. CLARIFICATION: after you have taught the items, you have to check that
the students have got them correctly. For this, you use questions that test
their understanding (these are called Concept Checking Questions CCQs).

5. PRACTICE: at this stage you help the sts to practice the items in various
contexts.
e.g.: exercises (fill in the gaps, multiple choice, writing sentences, using the words in
contexts, etc)

6. PRODUCTION: this is the stage of the lesson when the sts use the
grammar/vocabulary in activities where they have freedom (you no longer
correct) to use the words independently.
e.g.: communicative games