HOW TO TEACH

LANGUAGE

What does language study consist

of ?
1.
2.
3.
4.

Expose the new language to the

students.
Help students to understand
meaning.
Help students to understand
language form.
Help students to practice language.

Speaking

Expose the new language to the

students

Do you often invite someone/anyone?

When do you usually invite
someone/anyone?
How do you invite someone/anyone?
Does he/she accept your invitation?
Have you ever refused ones
invitation?

How should we expose students to

language?

The teacher wants her elementary

students to be able to invite each
other and respond to invitations. She
plays a tape on which the following
dialogue is heard.
Sarah
Joe
Sarah
Joe

Joe, Hello.
Oh hello, Sarah
Umm. How are you?
Fine. Why?

Sarah Er no reason. (pause

nervously) are you doing
anything this morning?
Joe
No. Why?
Sarah
Joe

Would you like to come to the

cinema?
Yes, that would be great. Ell, it
depends. Whats on

Sarah

The new Tarantino film.

Joe

I suppose its all violent.

Sara Yeah. Probably. But it is

h
meant to be very good.
Joe
I dont usually like violent
films.
Sarah Oh. OK. Well, we could go to
the pizza place or
something.
Joe
Im only joking! Id love to
come.

Help students to understand meaning

Answer the following questions.
1. Do you think they are friends?
2. Does Sarah invite Joe to the cinema?
3. What language (expressions) does she
use?
4. Does Joe accept?
5. What language (expressions) does he
use?
6. What are they going to do next?
7. Do you want to know more expressions
(language) to invite someone?

How to help students understand language form?

How to Invite
someone
Would
+ Verb
you like to phrase
etc.

How to accept
That
would be

come to
That
the party? would be
Would
come to
you like to the
theatre?

have
lunch?

How to
refuse

+
Adjective
nice

No, thanks

That
would be

good

I am afraid I
cant. I
have to
study.

That
would be

fine

Help students practice language

Get choral and individual repetition of the

key phrases Would you like to come to
the cinema? and That would be great.
Get one student to ask questions and
another student to answer (reverse)
Ask student to make different invitation.
The teacher can prompt them by saying :
concert, football match, circus show ,
exhibition, trade fair, magic show,
birthday party etc. for them.

Teaching Structure /
grammar

Past Tense: Telling Past Activity

Study the Following Sentences

a. I played football yesterday.

b. Ana watched TV last night
c. They went shopping last Monday
d. Budi wrote a letter two hours ago.
e. I did not (didnt) play football yesterday.
f. Ani did not (didnt) watch TV last night.
g. A: Did Budi write a letter two hours ago?
B: Yes, he did/ No, he didnt.

h. A: Did they go shopping last

Monday?
B: Yes, they did. / No, they didnt.
i. A: When did you watch TV?
B: Last night. ( I watch TV last night)
j. A : What time did Budi write a letter?
B: At 07:00 p.m. (He wrote a letter at
07:00p.m)
Do the following activities.
1. Write the subject of the sentence a, b, c and d.
a. Subject of sentence a :_____________________
b. subject of sentence b : _____________________
c. Subject of sentence c : _____________________
d. Subject of sentence d: _____________________

2. Write the verb of the sentence a, b,

c and d.
a. verb of sentence a
:________________
b. verb of sentence b :
________________
c. verb of sentence c :
________________
d. verb of sentence d:
________________
3. Look at the verbs of sentences a and b.
At the end of the verb, we add __________
ending. This kind of verb is called regular

5. In past tense, we have two kinds of

verb. They are _________________________
and ____________________________________.
We call them verb I or verb II
6. Write the more examples of the regular
verbs
Present (verb I)
Past (Verb II)
Meaning
1. ________
_________
_______
2. ________
_________
_______
3. ________
_________
_______
4. ________
_________
_______
5. ________
_________
_______

7. Write the more examples of the irregular

verbs !
Present (verb I)
Past (Verb II)
Meaning
1. ___________
__________
__________
2. ___________
__________
__________
3. ___________
__________
__________
4. ___________
__________
__________
5. ___________
__________
__________

8. Write Adverbs of time of the sentence a, b, c, d,

e, f, g, and h!
a. ______________
e. _____________
b. ______________
f. _____________
c. ______________
g. _____________
d. ______________
h. _____________

9. Sentence a, b, c, and d are

negative sentence or positive
sentences. (darken the wrong one)
10. To form positive sentences, we use verb I
or verb II after the subject. (darken the
wrong one)
11.Sentence e and f are negative sentence
or positive sentence. (darken the wrong
one)
12. To form negative sentence, we put the
word ________________ or didnt after
_____________

13. Negative sentence uses verb I or

verb II (darken the wrong one)
14. Sentence g and h are negative or
interrogative. (darken the wrong one)
15. To form interrogative sentence, we put
_____before _______________
16. Interrogative sentence uses verb I or
verb II (darken the wrong one)
17. Can you differentiate sentences g, h and
I, j?
Sentence g and h _____________________
Sentence I and j ______________________

Simple past tense is used to tell

present activities or past activities
(darken the wrong one)
Write the pattern of the past tense for :
a.Positive sentence :
______________________________________
b.Negative sentence
______________________________________
c.Interrogative
______________________________________