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Lesson 5
Dealing with grammar
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• discussed how you feel about teaming granular
• talked about ways of learning grammar
• listened to some learners' views
• rewritten a speech
• compared Bangla and English sentence patterns"
A Discuss in pairs what you feel about studying grammar. Do you find it difficult or easy? Is it boring or interesting? Is it necessary for unnecessary for learning English?
Do you learn grammar rules first and then apply them in your speaking and writing? Or, do you discover grammatical rules and sentence patterns while reading and listening?
Now listen to what four foreign learners of English say about grammar. Take notes as you listen. After listening, discuss in pairs the following questions.
1 What do you understand by 'discrete' grammar and 'contextualised' grammar?
2 What is Yasmeen's view of grammar?
3 Among the people giving their views, who do you think is a more meticulous
learner?
4 Compare Maria and Jessica as language learners. Who do you agree with?
B Listen to Jessica's speech again and rewrite it using the reported speech.
C The grammar of a language shows how words fall into certain patterns. For example, the grammar of English follows this basic pattern.
Subject + verb + object/adverbial
The cat sat on the mat.
Anwar enjoys reading.
Is this pattern similar to its Bangla equivalent? If not, how is it different? Find out some other differences between English and Bangla sentence patterns.
Focus :
Skills.
Discussion, listening,
note-taking.
Functions.
Note-taking,
reporting, contrasting.
Grammar/Structure.
Reported speech.
Vocabulary.
discrete, contcxtualised, gel across.
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Lesson 5
Dealing with grammar
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• discussed how you feel about teaming granular
• talked about ways of learning grammar
• listened to some learners' views
• rewritten a speech
• compared Bangla and English sentence patterns"
A Discuss in pairs what you feel about studying grammar. Do you find it difficult or easy? Is it boring or interesting? Is it necessary for unnecessary for learning English?
Do you learn grammar rules first and then apply them in your speaking and writing? Or, do you discover grammatical rules and sentence patterns while reading and listening?
Now listen to what four foreign learners of English say about grammar. Take notes as you listen. After listening, discuss in pairs the following questions.
1 What do you understand by 'discrete' grammar and 'contextualised' grammar?
2 What is Yasmeen's view of grammar?
3 Among the people giving their views, who do you think is a more meticulous
learner?
4 Compare Maria and Jessica as language learners. Who do you agree with?
B Listen to Jessica's speech again and rewrite it using the reported speech.
C The grammar of a language shows how words fall into certain patterns. For example, the grammar of English follows this basic pattern.
Subject + verb + object/adverbial
The cat sat on the mat.
Anwar enjoys reading.
Is this pattern similar to its Bangla equivalent? If not, how is it different? Find out some other differences between English and Bangla sentence patterns.
Focus :
Skills.
Discussion, listening,
note-taking.
Functions.
Note-taking,
reporting, contrasting.
Grammar/Structure.
Reported speech.
Vocabulary.
discrete, contcxtualised, gel across.