Guided Practice

1. Guided Practice

2. Guided Practice Where on the continuum?

3. Guided Practice Mechanical: Drill, understanding is not essential for response, fill in he blank

4. Guided Practice Meaningful: Response is predictable, understanding is essential for response, only 1 right answer

5. Guided Practice communicative: Response is unpredictable, understanding is essential for response, new information may be exchanged, authentic use of language

6. Advanced students who have been reading descriptions of castle life during the Middle Ages create a family crest and write an explanation of each symbol used in the crest. Guided Practice 1

7. In small groups, intermediate language level students individually explain orally the use of a fanciful household gadget which they invented the night before as part of a homework assignment. Guided Practice 2

8. Beginning students erase the chalkboard, close the door or open the window when the teacher requests them to do so. Guided Practice 3

9. As the teacher shows the class a large cardboard clock face and turns the hands to indicate a series of different times, individual beginning students say the appropriate time. Guided Practice 4

10. Pairs of intermediate students explain to each other how they feel about a newly initiated, schoolwide campaign to clean the campus eating area after lunch. Guided Practice 5

11. As beginning students read aloud from a passage in their text, they correct each mispronunciation when the teacher interrupts to model the correct sound. Guided Practice 6

12. Students write a brief letter describing their own class schedule in their school. Guided Practice 7

13. Intermediate students watch a videotape on a sports event, taking notes so that they can tell other students who have not seen the tape what happened. Guided Practice 8

14. Pairs of beginning students act out one and then the other role of a short, two person dialog which the class has previously memorized. Guided Practice 9

15. Advanced students, as part of a unit on university student life, fill out an application to change their major at the university. Guided Practice 10

16. Beginning students fold a sheet of paper according to directions given by a student. Guided Practice 11

17. Beginning students play Bingo to practice verb forms. Guided Practice 12

18. Advanced students role-play a confrontation between an accused shoplifter and a store detective in an alleged department store theft. Guided Practice 13

19. Beginning students write a brief letter introducing themselves to a pen pal. Guided Practice 14

20. As they read a short selection describing events in the life of a famous personality from history, advanced students write a description of the same events as if they were taking place in modern day. Guided Practice 15

21. Beginning students view a series of pictures, each depicting one action in a connected sequence of actions related to an automobile accident. Students listen to a statement about the action and indicate whether the statement is true or false. Guided Practice 16

22. While looking at a visual (for the first time) depicting activities at a bus station, beginning students describe orally what they see, and respond to any questions which a partner may have about the visual. Guided Practice 17

23. Guided Practice Diagram ideas and report out