Drill

A number of sentences which contain new structures that the students repeat in order to memorize them. They can be individual drills (students repeat the sentences one at a time), choral drills (the whole class repeats the sentences together), substitution drill (some key words of the sentences are changed by the teacher) and question and answer (Q&A) drills (the teacher ask the same question to different students and they answer differently but using the same structure).

Drills can be very useful to help learners memorize the structures, but the teacher has to be very careful in order to avoid turning the classes into boring endless repetition cycles.

Macmillan English Dictionary for ELT Terms - http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/glossaries/definitions/d-f.htm

Tips and ideas for using drilling in the classroom - http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?docid=146558

RUSSELL, A. Drilling - Judicious Use of Brute Force in the ESL Classroom. UsingEnglish.com. Disponível em: http://www.usingenglish.com/weblog/archives/000414.html. Acesso em: 24 jun. 2010

MUMFORD, S. Drilling can be fun. The internet TESL Journal, v. 8, n. 7, jul. 2002. Disponível em: http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Mumford-Drilling.html. Acesso em: 24 jun. 2010.