The Teaching of Structural Words and Sentence Patterns 2. [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION This book sets out more teaching items of the kind described in the Introduction to Stage One. It provides suggestions for presenting these various items, and for oral drills. It is not possible to state precisely the classes or standards for which these teaching items will be appropriate, nor the time needed for mastering them. These are questions to which an answer is possible only when the numbers of hours per week available for English, the country in which English is being learnt, and other points are known. With six or seven hours a week available, with good teaching, and with classes of reasonable size (up to thirty, perhaps), the items in this book might be presented by the teacher and learnt by the pupil in one year. The order in which the teaching items are arranged is unlikely to be identical with the order of these items in the textbooks that are used in schools. It is likely, however, that most of these teaching items will occur in the first and second 'Readers', or very early in the third 'Reader'. It is possible that a few items in somé second 'Readers' are not dealt with in this book. Such items will be dealt with in Stage Three. A cumulative Index for Stage One and Stage Two is printed at the end of this book. Teachers using this book (both teachers in training and teachers in service) should have Stage One and refer to it from time to time. It ofíen happens that the presentation of a new teaching item makes possible the recall and practice of an item presented earlier. Such opportunities are valuable, and in Stage Two there are frequent references to Stage One. The cumulative