Meaningful grammar by Penny Ur Claire Barnes

This webinar covers effective teaching methods and provide you with invaluable information about our exams. Meaningful grammar by Penny Ur Grammar is traditionally taught through explanations and exercises: but a lot of the exercises in our textbooks tend to be rather boring and mechanical drills: gapfilling, matching, and so on. There is a place for such exercises; but experience shows that if that is the only thing you do, then students will not gain the automatic and intuitive knowledge of the grammatical forms and meanings that will enable them to use them correctly in their own speech and writing. They also need activities that provide them with opportunities to create messages and express themselves. Such activities are not only more effective from the point of view of language learning, but also more interesting and motivating. In this workshop we shall look at some ideas for meaningful grammar practice, and some ideas how to transform traditional drills into more communicationoriented