Scott Thornbury - How to Answer Learners' Grammar Questions

Scott Thornbury presents at IATEFL 2019 in Liverpool on how to answer learners' grammar questions.

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[goenglishjpn]

A lot of good advice here, particularly for newish teachers.

‘Will’ versus ‘going to’ is by far the most asked question I have received in my 20 years teaching. Probably ‘have got’ versus ‘have’ and ‘have to’ versus ‘must’ would come after, in terms of grammar at least.

That said, a lot of students in Japan will focus on minor and obscure grammar usage when asking questions. Deal with the question if you can, but don’t get sucked into lengthy discussions and debates.

[irabranov]

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[irabranov]

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[MoacirTeacher]

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[Cuoid]

“What does ‘would’ mean?”
“Well, it’s the past form of ‘will’ but wait, what context is that?”
“My table is made of wood”
“Ah! Good job I asked.”

[mohamedalaaelsayed]

Well I am thankful and utterly grateful cause you haven't given up teaching at the time, cause it would have been truly a predicament for lots of language teachers ^^

[EnglishwithJoe]

One to one students ask me many questions. large groups almost never, but small groups do. So I believe it is more to do with the dynamics of the class as opposed to only the fact that the teacher is the main focus. Students are shyer to ask in big groups. You don't need lots of data to observe this

[nadaelsheimy]

Thank you so much for this beneficial lecture. Thank you for making it available for us to learn and develop

[Maria]

Thank you so much. Just in case someone can help. What's Scott's book on questions teachers ask each other called?

[HayaMelhem-sbis]

Can you give me the summary of this vedio and thank you

[yiyunzhang]

I really want to see the last slide...