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HOW TO TEACH GRAMMAR
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Evaluating students’ grammatical knowledge
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/michael-swan/how-teach-grammar-0
Helpful suggestions on how to teach grammar, from Michael Swan, author of the classic Practical English Usage.
Ways of teaching grammatical structures
Teaching grammar: Study materials
Handouts, textbook recommendations, lesson plans, activities, learning strategies for teaching grammar to each level.
Five Fun New Ways to Teach Grammar to ESL Students
Engaging, interactive activities for presenting and practising key grammar structures.
Teaching Grammar in an ESL/EFL Setting
Sound advice from the ever-reliable esl.about.com site.
Dave’s ESL Café Idea cookbook
A great menu of activities for teaching grammar.
Checking understanding of grammatical structures
Is this a concept check question?
Why are concept questions a useful technique?
Ways of checking understanding
The meaning of concept check questions and how to construct them. You will find some examples of useful concept questions here.
Focus on tenses
Top 10 Teaching Tenses Do’s and Dont’s
A teacher gives some excellent advice.
Teaching ESL verb tenses to adults
How to teach the form and function of English tenses? For ideas on teaching a specific tense, click the corresponding link in the tense chart at the bottom of the page.
Tense revision cards
Print these cards out, cut them up and use them as you practise tenses with your students.
Teaching tenses forum
Teachers from around the world share their ideas on how to teach English tenses.
Teaching Tenses to ESL Students
A useful presentation on clarifying tenses in English, including the use of timelines.
Resources
The world wide web is a great place to add depth to your learning, and we believe that the best students will read around the topics to improve their understanding. To help you with this, we have scoured the web to give you a list of the best links out there for each module.
Evaluating students’ grammatical knowledge
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/michael-swan/how-teach-grammar-0
Helpful suggestions on how to teach grammar, from Michael Swan, author of the classic Practical English Usage.
Ways of teaching grammatical structures
Teaching grammar: Study materials
Handouts, textbook recommendations, lesson plans, activities, learning strategies for teaching grammar to each level.
Five Fun New Ways to Teach Grammar to ESL Students
Engaging, interactive activities for presenting and practising key grammar structures.
Teaching Grammar in an ESL/EFL Setting
Sound advice from the ever-reliable esl.about.com site.
Dave’s ESL Café Idea cookbook
A great menu of activities for teaching grammar.
Checking understanding of grammatical structures
Is this a concept check question?
Why are concept questions a useful technique?
Ways of checking understanding
The meaning of concept check questions and how to construct them. You will find some examples of useful concept questions here.
Focus on tenses
Top 10 Teaching Tenses Do’s and Dont’s
A teacher gives some excellent advice.
Teaching ESL verb tenses to adults
How to teach the form and function of English tenses? For ideas on teaching a specific tense, click the corresponding link in the tense chart at the bottom of the page.
Tense revision cards
Print these cards out, cut them up and use them as you practise tenses with your students.
Teaching tenses forum
Teachers from around the world share their ideas on how to teach English tenses.
Teaching Tenses to ESL Students
A useful presentation on clarifying tenses in English, including the use of timelines.