More oral practice is much-needed to make use of integrated skills in meaningful contexts. Knowing about grammar and knowing vocabulary does not translate automatically into oral proficiency.
More oral practice involves focusing on some particular topic with the purpose of integrating verbally relevant vocabulary and relevant grammar.
In this TUTORIAL you are guided into practicing the future tense, in the form IR + A + INFINITIVE. You need to be realistic about the scope of the activity. Keep it simple and prepare in advance. For example, by making sure that you know what the verbs involved mean. For that purpose, there are a number of pictures to help you both learn and recall the key words.
In this particular oral practice you are not expected to demonstrate knowledge of the future tense as a whole. You will instead be focusing only on the third person, singular and plural. Likewise, a selection of actions is provided, to make sure that your oral practice is a controlled and positive experience. One more step up your learning ladder. To that you can always add more later.
Oral practice helps you to think about grammar and vocabulary with a purpose, and in different ways than the written or listening practices do. It adds variety and challenge, and gives you opportunities to develop fluency, without sacrificing accuracy. The more oral practice you have, the more prepared you will be for real-life situations.
You can go back to a suggested oral activity and implement variations. For instance, you can consider different ways in which you can try to tackle an oral activity. You can set yourself certain guidelines for your practice. You can record your first three or four interactions and then listen afterwards to notice anything that needs improving. Also, you can say that you aim to complete an activity within a limited amount of time. Any of these strategies will give you learning opportunities upon which to build new ones. This way you are making decisions too and taking your learning into your own hands!
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