Last week, I approached a grammatical exercise following Penny’s advice about giving the students all the answers...

Last week, I approached a grammatical exercise following Penny’s advice about giving the students all the answers and then I asked them if there was something unclear. For me, it was a new technique and the students were surprised because in our teaching culture, we are not used to do so

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  1. Penny UrDecember 15, 2017 at 10:42 PM

    The question is:how much you felt they learned from doing it this way, as opposed to doing it the normal way?
    Just to clarify: I'm not in favour of doing it this way every time: it's just a variation which is useful sometimes.
    A compromise you might try: tell them to do all the ones they're sure they can do right, and then show them the answers to check and find out answers to the ones they couldn't do.

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  2. Hannah McCullochDecember 16, 2017 at 3:12 AM

    It's great to hear so many people trying out Penny's tips!

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  3. Marwa TalbiDecember 16, 2017 at 12:53 PM

    the task was about writing the correct forms. It was an opportunity to go through the rules to justify the answer. I think that following this technique helped them to realize which form should be used (adjective, verb, noun...). In the normal way of doing such task, they will be reluctant and not very much interested. they seemed to be engaged.

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