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School offers grammar classes all the year round, especially in summer, which attracts a great many students. "There is no doubt that a knowledge implicit or explicit of grammatical rules is essential for the mastery of a language."(Penny Ur, a teacher trainer, and author of Grammar Practice Activities) "A sound knowledge of grammar is essential if pupils are going to use English creatively."(Tom Hutchinson, a course-book writer). So you can see "grammar teaching" may mean different things to different people. No matter what you think about it, grammar really has a very strong effect on our learning or teaching English, so I have to admit that we should never say that grammar is nothing. It is something, something we should pay attention to. Then what is grammar? What do we know about the learning of grammar? There are a lot of sayings about its definition, such as: Grammar is conventionally seen as the study of the syntax and morphology of sentences; grammar is the study of linguistic chains and slots; grammar is the study both of the way words are chained together in a particular order, and also of what kinds of words can slot into any one link in the chain; grammar is a process for making a speaker's or writer's meaning clear when contextual information is lacking. Generally speaking, we can accept the idea that grammar is a description of the rules that govern how a language's sentences are formed. It relates closely to sounds, words, sentences, texts as well as meaning, function, rules, structures and so on. Ideas about the learning of grammar have been greatly influenced by the input hypothesis and the notion of intake. Learners receive information about language from a variety of sources in their environment in the classroom. Grammar learning includes noticing, reasoning and hypothesizing, reasoning deductively, analyzing contrastively, translating and transferring. Conclusively, we can say that there are mainly two ways of learning grammar— deductive or inductive. Then how to teach grammar? Or in other words, what approaches do we usually use to present grammar? Since the way that we teach is greatly influenced by the way that we learn, we can judge that there are mainly two different approaches that we can present grammar—deductive or inductive. 2. A deductive approach A deductive approach starts with the presentation of a rule and is followed by examples in which the rule is applied. This method is generally related to "translation" Since the grammar items can be easily and simply given, it used to be very popular with both teachers and students. Take this lesson plan, in which "going to do"is taught, as an example: Step 1 Presentation T: Today we will learn a new English structure "be going to+do" It refers to doing something in the near future or what will happen soon. Such as: a) I am going to buy some chocolate tomorrow. 明天我打算去买一些巧克力。 b) He is going to hold his birthday party next Saturday. 他打算下周六举行生日晚会。 c) They are going to travel to Guilin during May Day. 五一期间他们将去桂林旅行。 d) We are going to have a new hospital built here. 我们要在这里建一座新的医院。 e) There is going to be an English film in our school this evening. 今天晚上我们学校要放一场英语电影。 Step 2 Explanation T: Now let me stress clearly about this structure: First, you should remember that it applies to a future plan. Second, the verb "be" should be used in different forms according to its subject, number o