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This chapter gave me insight into how teaching ESL students vocabulary and grammar should be approached. The lessons should be geared to their level and should be useful to them in their everyday lives. Learning esoteric words such as \"esoteric\" would not be helpful to most students. Instead, lessons should be approached with regard to their usefulness and appropriate to their level of understanding. I like the idea of looking at holiday pictures and discussing the vocabulary associated with different holidays. Also, this chapter states that the grammatical structure should include it's meaning, use and the difference, if any, between its spoken and written form. In my classes, I try to encourage my students to not use slang or verbal short-cuts. But I want them to be familiar with such words as they will often hear them and I want them to understand the meaning. Also, students should be taught the different functions of language and the different context language is used. In their native language, most students would not talk to their grandmother the way they talk to their friends. That distinction needs to be taught as it is a function of appropriateness and possibly inheritance.
