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Teaching Grammar at the Basic Schools
Masaryk University in Brno
Pedagogical Fakulty

Department of English

Teaching Grammar at The Basic Schools according to The Framework Educational Programme

Bachelor Thesis

Brno 2006

Supervisor: Author:
PhDr. Helena Havlíčková Jarmila Šabatová

I. THEORETICAL PART

1. Introduction

2. The Framework Educational Programme

2.1 The Framework Educational Programme in the Czech Republic
2.2 Language communication
2.3 Key competences
2.4 Expected results in the language communication

3. Grammar and the language curriculum

3.1 Curriculum and communication
3.2 The centrality of language
3.3 The grammar- centred curriculum

4. Identifying grammar

4.1 What is grammar
4.2 Grammar in language teaching

5. Presenting and testing grammar

5.1 Presenting grammatical items
5.2 Discovery techniques
5.2 Practice techniques
5.3 Testing grammar
5.4 My own conclusion of presenting grammar

II. PRACTICAL PART

6. The Framework Educational Programme and the School Educational Programme

6.1 Making the School Educational Programme
6.2 The School Educational Programme for 6th class

7. Grammatical units taken from the School Educational Programme

7.1 The list of grammatical units
7.2 Lesson plans for the main units

8. Teaching process

8.1 Hypotheses about each lesson plan
8.2 Evaluation and experience from the lesson

9. Checking and testing knowledge

9.1 Test for students
9.2 Anticipation of possible problems
9.3 Evaluation of the tests

10. Conclusion

10.1 Advantages and disadvantages of using the School Educational Programme

1. Introduction

I have been teaching English at the basic school for ten years. My
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