Teaching Grammar

Teaching Grammar -------Different ways with a huge range of activities and possibilities

Introducing grammar: There are several ways or activities when it comes to introduce a new grammar aspect

Examples:

*The postman

*Girls’ night out

*Disappointment

*Light in space

Discovering Grammar: Students are encouraged to work out for themselves how language forms are constructed and used.

Examples:

*Comparative adjectives

*Rules and Freedom

Practicing Grammar: These are some activities aimed for putting into practice what they already learned

Examples:

*Where am I?

*Simon’s adventure

*Matching sentence halves

*Find someone who

*Perfect one liners

Grammar Games: There are many games from tv and games we play at home that can be adapted for classroom.

Examples:

*Ask the right person

*Putting sentences back together again

Using Grammar Books: teachers and students may consult grammar book for different reasons

Examples:

*For a better understanding

*For explanations and exercises in self-study grammars

*To check grammar concepts

Grouping students

 

Whole class teaching=students in rows and the teacher in front!

 Advantage                                      Disadvantage

*Easier of students to                       * It favors the group rather than the individual

share an emotion.                              *Not the best to encourage communicative language teaching

*Suitable for the teacher when

acting as the controller

Setting whole group classes

*Orderly rows

*Circle and horseshoe

*Separate tables

Students of their own=Individualized learning----------- vital step in the development of learner autonomy.

Advantages                                                                        Disadvantages

*It allows teacher to respond to individuals                     * It does not help a class develop a sense of

Student differences                                                                      belonging.

* It can develop students’ autonomy                                *It takes much more time than interacting

*Less stressful for students                                                     with the whole class

Pair work= Practice of the language TOGETHER

Advantages                                                                     Disadvantages

*increases the amount of speaking                              *It is very noisy

*Quick and easy to organize                          *Students may veer away from the point of the exercise

Group work=Suitable for tasks in which pair work is not sufficient or appropriate

Advantages                                                           Disadvantages

*Greater chance of different opinions                  *likely to be noisy

*Promotes learners’ autonomy                             * Some may become passive whereas others may

                                                                                       Dominate.

Deciding  when to put students in groups or pairs depends on:

*The Task

*Variety of sequence

*The mood