We all know primary students learn through playing games. You cannot ask them to do typical boring exercises. Well, you can, but that won’t be effective. Students will be demotivated and will lose interest. In this article, I’ll share some of the ideas of the games you can use to practise grammar and vocabulary. 1....
What is the most challenging thing to teach? I bet 70% of the teachers would say “Grammar!” And 30% would say “Grammar to young learners”. So, which things are important when you teach grammar in primary school? Key principles Context Children cannot understand abstract concepts, schemes and apply grammar rules. You cannot just have them...
“Grammar? Ahh, boring!” Isn’t this the reaction we see each time we start to introduce a new grammar point in class? Do we wonder why people don’t like it or why it is hard to fix fossilised mistakes? Well, it is boring, that’s why 😀 How to make this more fun? How to make sure...
Teaching grammar is probably one of the painful aspects of teaching a foreign language. It can be quite challenging to choose the methodology and the tools to conduct a grammar slot in a way so that it is not boring, not conventional and easy to comprehend. Through time, different approaches were exercised to deliver a...
Do your students easily get bored when it is time to revise grammar or do grammar tests? Are you searching for creative techniques to revise English grammar with your students? If yes, go on reading today’s article. Taking into consideration the crucial importance of revision in the ESL classroom, we have prepared a list of...
Teaching grammar is probably one of the most challenging aspects of teaching a foreign language. We need to make sure the students assimilate what we are trying to deliver and feel comfortable using it on a day-to-day basis. In this article, we will have a look at different procedures and techniques of teaching grammar. PPP...
There are a lot of methods of grammar presentation that a teacher can use depending on the class and the particular lesson plan and goals. In some articles, we have already discussed some of them and in this article, we will bring all the methods together. The main two methods are: Deductive means that a...
There are situations when our students advance their English enough to start watching videos, TV series and film without translations. Once this happens, a lot of questions arise. Why the character used this or that construction? Why don’t they answer fully, as most English learners study in an English lesson? The answer is that a...
