New ways to tackle grammar

As language students, we have been subjected to many different theories and approaches as to how we should teach the English language in our classes, that we sometimes  prefer to revert back to the traditional approaches, that feel safe and applicable in almost every context. Thus, we forget, or ignore activities that can be more engaging for our classes.

What we tried to accomplish with the grammar activity that is presented here, is to give our students the opportunity to, firstly, realize the context, get familiarized with it, and then make them  interact(guided) with two of their classmates.

We believe that grammar is one of the overused themes in schools, since it is the easiest one to teach (not in a matter of contents, but of resources) and we, as  teachers, do not have to really complicate ourselves,  when out there are endless lists of activities and handouts to give to our students, However, we do recognize that implementing, and trying out new ways of grammar teaching, can be beneficial to both, new and old teachers (and of course, for students too). By implementing new activities, we (the new generations of teachers) will be opening a door that its seems to be closed with a tight grip and that have sadly stuck our progress in the foreign language area.

We are willing to try out new methods, and to keep on studying in order to become more proficient on grammatical teaching of the language.

Now, you can revise our materials for a grammar class we have designed. Have fun !
 

Lesson Plan

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