In a typical activity, students read a text together line and are asked to translate it from the target language into their native language. Students may answer comprehension questions based on the passage, often in their first language. The teacher draws attention to a specific grammar rule that is illustrated by the text ( for example, a certain verb from ). Following this, the students are given an exercise in which they are asked to practise the grammatical rule by filling in the blanks with the appropriate verb from in a series of sentences that may mot be related to the text they have read and translated.