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SUGGESTIONS FOR USING THIS MATERIAL/2
- Go back and look at each underlined word or expression and try to guess its meaning. In some cases, your guess will be very imprecise and vague. You may know that a word means "something good" or "something bad" or "some kind of machine" or "an action". In other cases, especially when the word is used several times in the passage you may be able to arrive at a very precise meaning.
- To see how this process is applied to one of the Readings, see Unit 4, Chapter 4.
- Grammar Points
- The grammar points around which each Chapter was developed can be found in the box at the beginning of the Chapter.
- The importance of researching the grammar point(s) with the reference pages given cannot be stressed enough. Through, investigation of the grammar points in Language and Life in the U.S.A., as well as in other grammar books and textbooks, the teacher can develop a clear understanding of the grammar points are and how they can be inter-related.
- The knowledge achieved by the teacher and students about the grammar points should NOT result in extended discussions about the language. It should result in learning plans that give the students every opportunity to generate and use the language intensively and competently.
- Review Reading
- This may be seen as a REVIEW of the Unit. It contains most of the grammar points included in the Comprehensive Reading and in the Unit.
- This reading should give the students a chance to see that the competency they achieved during their experiences in the Unit has allowed them to read, comprehend, and discuss this reading with ease.
- The teacher could also use this reading to give the students further experience with grammar points that were troublesome for them during study of the Unit.
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