Author(s)

Yayu Cai ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Zhangzhou, Fujian, 363105, China

Corresponding Author

Yayu Cai

ABSTRACT

Learning English grammar has always been a difficult point for Chinese students. In this paper, the texts in daily life are used as the carrier, and two pieces of news and a song lyrics are selected to teach intermediate learners in China to better understand imperative mood and third conditional. Through the study of these three texts, students can get a better grasp of these two grammar points. Detailed teaching steps are presented in this paper.

KEYWORDS

Grammar teaching, English teaching, texts, task design

CITE THIS PAPER

Yayu Cai. Using Texts to Teach Grammar. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2021) Vol. 4: 18-29. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2021.040604.

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