1.4 Eliciting
This is another handy tool for a teacher’s toolkit. When you are presenting language
you should try to get the explanations from your students (elicit) rather than giving all
the explanations yourself. Practise asking questions that will draw responses out of
students rather than always giving the explanations yourself. An advantage of using
this method is that you find out how much students know before you start teaching. If
you are aware of students’ knowledge, you’ll know how much time needs to be spent
on the language point.
You can show students a picture of a sitting room and ask them what the various
objects are to elicit vocabulary around the topic of furniture.
You can give two or three adjectives and their comparative and superlative forms and
ask students to provide the comparative and superlative forms of other adjectives:
Cold
colder
coldest
Beautiful
more beautiful
most beautiful
Students provide the comparative and superlative of: comfortable, small, etc.
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