How important it is to elicit prior knowledge when teaching a lesson?
Prior knowledge that everyone has before learning a new thing.
3 answers from our tutors
You want your student to be interactive during lessons, but it is always best to test prior knowledge, otherwise you could endure a lesson where the student does not really engage or participate, or they have prior knowledge and are willing to engage and learn something new.
Crucial for effective learning teaching.
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The importance of activating prior learning in every lesson can be compared to a warm up before exercising. It it engages, reactivates and stimulates active learning alongside boosting confidence.
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What kind of method do you use to explain clearly each conditional for students? Do you provide some examples from real life and how you do it? Thank you!
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Tsebo Lucia Lehloa
The best approach is to expose students to the what conditionals are through explanation. Explain all the types of conditionals providing examples for each. Then the details of the structure of each type of conditionals would better come last, then strengthen understanding by having the student produce written and spoken language. Lastly, expose them to more reading and real life listening examples regarding this, sometimesas homework. To gauge their understanding of the structure, give fill in exercises.
- Could you explain me, please, when I need to use 0,1,2,3 and mixed conditionals? Thank you!
Can you provide examples?
Best answer
Mixed conditional combined second and third conditionals to talk about the past situations has a present consequence or a present situations that is a result of a past action Structure: If + past perfect + would +verb If I had studied medicine, I would be a doctor now.
