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iii) Cue drill:
A sentence is changed into many forms depending on the cues/clues presented.
Teacher Students
His father is a farmer. — (negative) — His father is not a farmer.
His father is a farmer. — (question) — Is his father a farmer?
iv) Substitution drill:
The sentence or structure to be drilled is written on the board or on a flash card.
The students repeat the sentence after the teacher. The students are then required
to make new sentences by using the cues or clues given by the teacher, e.g.
Teacher Students
They are drawing football. They are playing football.
clues/cues — basketball They are playing basketball.
— tennis. They are playing tennis.
v) Expansion drill
Students can expand the sentence by adding a word or a phrase at the right
position.
Teacher Students
Lakhan goes. Lakhan goes
to market Lakhan goes to market
to buy some books. Lakhan goes to market to buy some books.
c. Teaching reading skills
Reading is one of the important language skills. It is receptive skill through which
we receive a lot of information. Moreover, it is not a natural skill because it is not
acquired naturally like listening and speaking. Learning reading requires rigorous
practice. In the initial stage, students should be taught how to read aloud because
they have to associate the letters with the sounds. Later they should be taught to read
silently because silent reading fosters speed.
Techniques of teaching reading skills
For beginners, the following three steps are applied for teaching reading skill.
a) Recognizing different shapes and letters
Some basic shapes make up English letters. These shapes need to be introduced these
at the very beginning.
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