In a deductive approach, students are given explanations or grammar rules, for example, and then, based on these explanations or rules, they make phrases and sentences using the new language. The teacher starts by showing them pictures of people doing certain actions (painting a house, fixing the roof, cutting the grass, etc). He or she then models a sentence about one of the pictures ('He's painting the house') before using a series of devices to draw the students' attention to the grammar of the present continuous ('Listen ... he's ... he's ... he is ... he is [using a gesture, perhaps fingers or hands coming together to show 'he' and 'is' joined together, .to make the contracted form] ….he's .... he's ….painting ….listen….paint ... .ing ….paint ... Ing…..he's painting the house').