module 5 planning of the english language teaching-learning process

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LOJA
Área de la Educación el Arte y la Comunicación
English Language Career
Expressing personal preferences
The examples above provide a certain amount of practice in the manipulation of the
language and they do demand some attention to the meaning. However, such practice
is, by its nature, remote from the way language is used for real purposes. After ah the
teacher knows very well that horses can jump but not fly! So why should the student
say this? Simple practice of language points can often be achieved with a closer
approximation to the use of language in order to communicate an idea. In the example
below, the student is practicing the use of 'would' but, at the same time, expressing his
or her own preferences which the teacher could not have predicted. In this sense the
student is telling the teacher something he or she did not know. A simple practice
exercise is thus being used for real communicative purposes.
Two basic sentence should be written on the board I would prefer the orange.
I don't like either of them
TEACHER: (showing two pictures of fruit) which would you prefer, or perhaps you don't
like either of them?
STUDENT: I would prefer the people
TEACHER: Fine
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