1 / 23

Teaching Grammar

Teaching Grammar. What is grammar?. Grammar – the rules by which words change their form and are combined into sentences: English grammar/ Check your spelling and grammar LONGMAN Active Study Dictionary Grammar in general Grammar is the way words are put together to make correct sentences.

rdean
Download Presentation

Teaching Grammar

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Teaching Grammar

  2. What is grammar? Grammar – the rules by which words change their form and are combined into sentences: English grammar/ Check your spelling and grammar LONGMAN Active Study Dictionary Grammar in general Grammar is the way words are put together to make correct sentences

  3. Grammatical Structures A specific instance of grammar is usually called a “structure”: • The past tense/- ed helped/ • Noun plurals / a book-books, man-men / • The comparison of adjectives/ long-longer-the longest / • The progressive/ she is going /

  4. Why it is difficult to use formTO BE • I • You • We • They • He • She • It WasWereBeen

  5. Examples I am a student I was a student You are students You were students We are students We were students They are students They were students He is a student He was a student She is a student She was a student It is a cat It was a cat

  6. Grammatical terms The sentence is a set of words More and more people are moving from villages to towns and cities

  7. The clause is a kind of mini-sentence • she left because it was late and she was tired. ( or only she was tired)

  8. The phrase is shorter unit within the clause • a long table • was going

  9. the word is the minimum normally separate form that has a particular meaning learner

  10. The morpheme is a bit of a word which can be perceived as distinct component • pass -ed (two morphemes) • book (a single morpheme)

  11. Presentand explaining grammar • classroom or pear-teaching

  12. Stage 1 : Presentation • present and explain a grammatical structure to a class /5 minutes/

  13. Stage 2 (optimal) • use some ways

  14. Stage 3:(Feedback) • ask a colleague or student to tell afterwards how clear they thought your presentation was.

  15. Stage4 • write a set of guidelines for presentation and explaining grammar.

  16. Stage 5 • compare what you have written

  17. Stage 6 • Do stage 1 again, using another structure

  18. Guidelineson presenting and explaining a new grammatical structure. • Oral and written forms • Form and meaning • Examples • Visual materials • Mare structures from the use of technology • Situation and judgement • The right balance between accuracy and simplicity • Using inductive method/deductive method

  19. Grammatical mistakes

  20. Terminology • Mistakes-occasional inconsistent slips, something sounds or looks wrong or simply ‘jar’ - produce a slight of discomfort in the reader or heaver. • Errors - consistent and based on a mis-learned generalization.

  21. Learnederrors • Stage 1: Gathering samples • Stage 2: Classifying • Stage 3: Ordering • Stage 4: Reordering

  22. General Materials From • How to use English /Jevemy Harmer

More Related