Mechanics

This section helps to reinforce the new vocabulary, ideas, and structures in the text. To present the section, the teacher should explain the rule of punctuation or capitalization to the class, and write the example or the first problem on the board. Then the students can do the remaining problems. One effective method for checking the students’ work is to divide the chalkboard into sections and ask each student to write one answer in a section. Several students can do this at once, to save class time. Then the class as a whole can read and correct the boardwork. This selfix correction builds awareness of the mechanical rules of English and should encourage careful writing