1. No More Boring Drills for
Young Learners:
Alternative Charades
Anthony Ash, IH Torun

2. What is drilling?
Drilling

3. “At its simplest, drilling means
listening to a model and
repeating what is heard”
Repetition Drilling
Substitution Drilling
Q & A Drilling
Drilling

4. Where does it come from?
Behaviourist View
Correct Habit Formation
History

5. What can it be useful for?
What should we drill?
Use

6. Alternative Charades:
- grammatical chunk e.g. are
you… ing?
- adjacency pairs: Yes, I am / No,
I’m not
In Class

7. Thank you!
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