Reconstructing In reconstructing learners listen to a text several times and the teacher works with them to gradually build it up on the board, usually starting with the target grammatical features and then the rest of the text. The learners’ attention are focused on the use of the target features by having to remember them every time they are asked to recite the text and drawn to the use of then use target features through both the building-up and removal stages.

The general procedure is as follows: 1.Find or create a short text containing the target features. 2.Have the students listen to the text several times and slowly build it up on the board, noticing the target features and exploring how they are used. 3.Have the students orally practise the text. 4.As a way of getting students to notice again the target features, gradually remove parts of the text with the target features being the first parts OR the last part to be removed. 5.At each stage of removal have one or more students recite the text, filling in from memory what has been erased (pictures or diagrams may be used as prompts) in order to practise using the target features. 6.Finally, remove the entire text and have students recite it entirely from memory.

RECONSTRUCTING : SAMPLE TEACHING IDEA ONE Grammar focus : Process types and tenses Simple present continuous, for examples: -Dad’s cooking a curry in the kitchen. -The curry is simmering. However, in clauses representing other process types in present time, simple present tense is normally used, for examples : -I smell curry. -The curry looks wonderful. -I love this curry.

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My Favourite Place

Questions 1. find the clauses in present continuous (progressive) tense ! 2. which of the following best describes their general meaning? - being (what people and things are like) - doing (what people and things are do) - sensing (what sense with our eyes, noses, ears, etc) - feeling (how we feel about things) 3. what tense is used in all the other clauses? 4. what is the general meaning of the clauses in which ‘can’ is used?

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My Favourite Food

Questions 1. find the clauses in present continuous (progressive) tense ! 2. which of the following best describes their general meaning? - being (what people and things are like) - doing (what people and things are do) - sensing (what sense with our eyes, noses, ears, etc) - feeling (how we feel about things) 3. what tense is used in all the other clauses? 4. what is the general meaning of the clauses in which ‘can’ is used?

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Exercise II A : I miss talking with my best friend. I remember going with her everywhere. B : Why did you stop talking ? A : We had been wasting time together, before she got a new job and moved to a new city. B : I remember hearing that, have you talked to her recently? A : Yes, but I regret not calling her more often. B : I imagine being far apart is difficult A : I feel comfortable talking with her. I hope to meet her as soon as possible. C : Hey, A do you remember me? I miss you a lot. A : Oh my God, how are you? I miss you too. C : I’m fine, how about you? I want to go to the cinema. Do you want to go there with me? A : I’m good, certainly I’d like to go there. I want to meet you since a long time. I want to share my burden to you. C : I forgot to tell you that I have a new number cell phone A : Ok, no problem. Let’s go to the cinema. C : Yes, hurry up because the movie start at P.M