Drills should be done at speed if students are to gain the maximum benefit. It also introduces an element of challenge into the activity. Choral drilling maximises the amount of language practice and gives confidence to the learners. Individual drills should follow the choral phase when you are teaching two students or more. It enables you to check the accuracy of an individual.
Silent reading exercises Allowing students to read silently and at their own speed is important.
This reinforces what they have heard and practised. Question and answer exercises Question and answer exercises are designed to give further practice to the students and enable you to check their comprehension. Long text or dialogues that you give your student to read should be broken up into smaller pieces so as not to impose too great a memory load on the students. Before asking question about what they have just read, you should cover the text. This ensures that they are not just reading the answers from the book.