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Grammar. Techniques for teaching. What is Grammar?. Grammar rules for passing exams. The main reason for learning grammar rules is to pass exams . . Knowing the rules has little or no effect on language proficiency. Natural language learning does not involve learning rules. . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Grammar
Techniques for teaching
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What is Grammar?
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Grammar rules for passing examsThe main reason for learning grammar rules is to pass exams.
Knowing the rules has little or no effect on language proficiency.
Natural language learning does not involve learning rules.
However students need to learn rules simply to pass exams.
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So …. What’s the Point?
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1. Defeat Boredom
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Save the teacher’s sanity too
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2. Encourage Natural Learning
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3. Practise rules (for the exam)
But in an interesting way!
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1. Stories
““Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.”
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Strategies for Using Stories
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Choose or make up a storyAladdin and the Wonderful Lamp Ali Baba and the Forty ThievesBeauty and the Beast Chicken LittleCinderella Dick Whittington and His CatHansel and Gretel Jack and the BeanstalkJack the Giant Killer Puss in BootsRapunzel Red Riding HoodRumpelstiltzkin Sindbad the SailorSleeping Beauty Snow White and the Seven DwarfsSnow White and Rose Red The Brave Little TailorThe Emperor's New Clothes The Frog PrinceThe Gingerbread Man The Golden GooseThe Little Match-Girl The Little MermaidThe Magic Carpet The Musicians of BremenThe Nightingle The Pied Piper of Hamelin--PeppersThe Princess and the Pea The Shoemaker and the ElvesThe Six Swans The Snow QueenThe Sorcerer's Apprentice The Steadfast Tin SoldierThe Three Bears The Three Little PigsThe Tinderbox The Town Mouse and the Country MouseThe Ugly Duckling Three Billy Goats GruffThumbelina Tom ThumbTwelve Dancing Princesses
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Make a Little Book
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2. Songs and Chants
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Choose a SongFrere Jacques / Are you sleeping 5 little ducksAuld lang syne 10 in the bedFarmer in the dell Alison’s CamelHappy birthday Bear went over the mountainClementine B.I.N.G.OHere we go round the mulberry bush Grand old Duke of YorkHokey Pokey I met a bearI’m a little teapot Long legged sailorIf you’re happy and you know it On top of spaghettiLondon Bridge is falling down Sailor went to seaMary had a little lamb Hole in my bucketOld MacDonald had a farm To market to marketRow, row, row your boat Skip to my LouThis old man Wheels on the busWhere is Thumbkin Brown girl in the rain
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A Song as a Text
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Find a song with particular words
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Look at the song carefully
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Chants
Carolyn Graham
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Vocabulary Practice1. Choose your theme:
school animals
food
music
transportoccupations
sport
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Vocabulary - animalsChoose 5 – 10 words
elephantmonkey zebra
kangaroo
bear
rhino
lion
crocodile
snake
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Count the Syllables in EachChoose 5 – 10 words
elephantmonkey zebra
kangaroo
bear
rhino
lion
crocodile
snake
32 2
2
2
33
11
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Choose a 2, 3, 1
zebra crocodile snake
Zebra, crocodile, snake * Zebra, crocodile, snake * Zebra, crocodile, zebra, crocodile, Zebra, crocodile, snake *
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Choose a 2, 3, 1
zebra crocodile snake
Zebra, crocodile, snake * Zebra, crocodile, snake * Zebra, crocodile, zebra, crocodile, Zebra, crocodile, snake *
Pause – extra beat
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Grammar Chants
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3. Games
http://ktf2012.weebly.com/language-games.html
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Types of Language Games Board Games
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Types of Language Games Card Games
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Types of Language Games Dice Games
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Types of Language Games Word Making Games
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Types of Language Games Circle Games
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Types of Language Games Role-Play Games
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Types of Language Games Discussion Games
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Types of Language Games Quiz and Game Show
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Types of Language Games Drawing Games
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Types of Language Games Games of Chance
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Reported Speech Soccer
Let’s Play!
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4. Nursery Rhymes and Poems
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5. Plays and Dialogues
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A scene from a movie
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What is the dialogue?
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Create a Dialogue
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6. Puppets
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Project
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