2. When I make controlled practice activities I try to personalize them in order to make them more motivating for the learners. This always gives me good results. Finally, in order to make them more communicative I make the students work in pairs or in small groups.
4. I think that one of the most important benefits of providing learners with receptive grammar practice activities is that they learn language structures by ear. This means that even if they have not studied thoroughly these structures in grammatical terms, they can make a good use of them in a mechanical way.