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need to play a language game. Pattern drill is easiest way to teach the students in the classroom language they need with teacher.
2. The Kinds of Pattern Drill
Pattern drill may be classified in a number of different ways, depending upon what the learner is to change or manipulate. Sometimes two or three drills
are involved in the same pattern change. In addition, according to Haycraft, after presentation and explanation of the new structure, students may use controlled
practice in saying useful and correct sentence patterns in combination with appropriate vocabulary. These patterns are known as kind of drills. They can be
inflexible: students often seem to master a structure in drilling, but are then incapable of using it in other contexts.
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Furthermore, pattern drills have several types in form:
a. Repetition Drill
Repetition drill is usually used at very beginning of the course. The students merely repeat what they have heard the teacher say or the
tape recorder produce. The repetition drill is the basic drill for the presentation of new vocabulary and verb ending. Completed sentences
are used. Example:
Teacher : It is an umbrella Students : It is an umbrella
b. Substitution Drill
The students replace the subject of the model sentence with a pronoun of different person, number, or gender. They are required to
make the necessary change in the verb. Example:
Teacher : I go to Bandung. She? Students: She goes to Bandung.
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Teacher: We? Student: We go to Bandung.
c. Transformation Drill
This drill the model is changed from the singular to the plural, from the plural to the singular, from the affirmative to Passive, from the
declarative to the interrogative, and so on. Example: positive into passive
Teacher: she buys a book. Students: a book is bought by her.
Teacher: She brings a bag. Students: A bag is brought by her.
d. Replacement Drill
This is really the same drill as the substitution drill. Generally it
involves the replacement of a noun by a pronoun
Example: Teacher: Would you pl
ease…… Gesture to the window Students: Would you please open the window.
Teacher: showing picture of a chair. Students: Would you please sit down?
When the replacement drill is used as a progressive substitution drill, it is not too easy for the students, since they must listen to the cues
for the different slots.
e. Respond Drill
This drill the answers are patterned after the questions. They are of various types ranging from the simple Yes or No answer to complete
answer:
Example: Teacher : Does she buya bag? Yes?
Students : Yes, she does. Teacher : No?
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Students : No, she does not.
f. Completion Drill
