This document provides guidance on teaching grammar to students. It recommends using the PPP model (Presentation, Practice, Production) and the ESA model (Engage, Study, Activate) to introduce new grammar concepts. Teachers should use pictures, guessing games, discovery learning techniques, and real world contexts to engage students. When practicing grammar, teachers should have students underline grammar elements in texts, link new concepts to previous lessons, elicit rule formation, and provide controlled and open-ended activities so students can apply their new knowledge.

1. TEACHING GRAMMAR
Prof. Adjunto Regular: Estela N. BRAUN
Practice II, Special Didactics of ELT and Practicum at Primary School Level, 2013.
Foreign Languages Department, Humanities College, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa
(UNLPam)

2. Introducing Grammar: Jeremy Harmer,
Chapter 13 (2001).
• PPP
• ESA
• HOW?
• Use pictures
• Guessing games: DISCOVERY LEARNING.
• Provide a context.
• Focus on pronunciation applied to gramar: can/can’t-
Simple present “s”-”es”-Simple Past endings.

3. DISCOVERING GRAMMAR
• From the context , derive the rules (e.g. comparatives
and superlatives)
• Use lots of visual aids, songs that have the particular
structure embedded in it.
• Dialogues

4. PRACTISING GRAMMAR
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Underline the new grammar elements in a text.(Simon’s surfboard story).PAST PERFECT
(PET level)
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Linked to a previous listening.
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Follow up: elicit the use of the 3rd conditional:
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A. If Simon had had a good night’s sleep………………………………..
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B. If he hadn’t fallen asleep on his surfboard……………………………
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C. If he had told his Friends…………………………………………………..
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D. If his Friends hadn’t called the sea rescue service…………………….
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What is the rule for the third conditional ? How do we form it? When do we use it?GAME.
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http://www.klett-langenscheidt.de/_downloads/lehrwerke/308/ELTP04_57_conditional.pdf

5. PRACTICE
• From CONTROLLED PRACTICE to SITUATIONS WHERE
THEY CAN PUT THE NEW STRUCTURE INTO USE:
• What would you have done if you had been in Simon’s place?
(debate)
• Show students GRAMMAR BOOKS for children and teens.
• When can we use them?
• VIDEO: Scott Thornbury:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp8QSGcS0QI&feature=r
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