Lesson 4 Topic: direct method Aims: to gain a practical understanding of the direct method and learn when to use them appropriately Time

Task 2. Answer the following questions

1. 
   What is the difference between direct method and audio-lingual method?
   
2. 
   What kind of characteristic features of the audio-lingual method do you know?
   
3. 
   Can you enumerate the essentials of audio-lingual method?
   
4. 
   Can you tell us the additional information about audio-lingual method?
   
5. 
   The students in the Audio-lingual Method are passive or not
   
6. 
   What do you think new vocabulary and structures are presented through dialogues?
   

Task 3. Mark the following statements as true (T), false (F)

	Techniques
1	dialogue memorization	Dialogue or short conversations between two people are often used to begin a new lesson. Students memorize the dialogue through mimicry and applied role-playing
2	backward build- up drill	the drill is used when a long line of a dialogue is giving students trouble; teacher breaks a line into several parts, students repeat each part starting at the end of the sentence and expanding backwards through the sentence, adding each part in sequence
3	repetition	Students repeat teachers’ model as quickly and accurately as possible
4	chain drill	students ask and answer each other one-by- one in a circular chain around the classroom
5	single-slot substitution drill	the teacher states a line from the dialogue, then uses a word or a phrase as that students, when repeating the line, must substitute into the sentence in the correct place
6	Multiple- slot	same with single slot substitution, the difference is the teacher give the cue in different line
7	transformation drill	the teacher gives students a certain kind of sentence pattern
8	question and answer drill	giving the question and answer drills
9	use of minimal pairs	the teacher works with pairs of words which