Step two: blackboard example
Now you can write the structure on the board, underlining the key feature or highlighting them with coloured chalk. Most teachers would write all the words in the utterance, in the following way.
Even better, you can show only the bones of the structure, so as not to obscure the form with unnecessary words. We might call this sort of representation a skeleton structure, viewing the words that will be slotted in as the flesh of the utterance. Let us add the third person singular to our blackboard model. It will permit the class to talk about others as well as themselves. This change of person causes a grammatical change, but it does not change the word order (the structure). The addition of other persons to the model should only be done when the new utterances will be useful. The skeleton of the structure above, but with the addition of the other persons of the verb, can be seen in the following example. The use of the skeleton structure has made the cue much easier for the class to generate new phrases.