Listing All information contained on these pages is meant to be used as a reference only. This file was created or last modified on Wednesday, December 02, 1998. The presenter demonstrates contextualized grammar lessons on article usage, verb tense, and subordinate clauses designed around video clips of pool games and card games.
Lessons maximize often-missed visual and kinetic learning styles of advanced students.
The presentation includes demonstrations, video clips, a group activity, and discussion. The presenter explains an approach that uses students' own essays to guide them from simple grammatical editing tasks to more sophisticated ones, helping them develop their own effective correction system. The presenter demonstrates, with audience participation, a variety of entertaining grammar games and enjoyable, productive writing activities that offer important grammar drill or writing practice and spice up the grammar and writing classroom. The presenter also guides participants in developing variations of these activities. Panelists, including both strong supporters and opponents of TBLT, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the approach, and attempt to formulate a sensible solution.