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Grammar: How to Teach Nouns - TEFL Blog
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Grammar: How to Teach Nouns
Everyone and everything that exists in this world have what it is called or known by, and that automatically is the name of that person or that thing. We can then define a noun as a name given to persons, places, animals, objects, substances, qualities, actions, and measures.
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CLASSIFICATION OF NOUNS
1. COMMON NOUN:
2. PROPER NOUN:
NOTE:
3. COLLECTIVE NOUN:
4. CONCRETE NOUN:
5. ABSTRACT NOUN:
6. UNCOUNTABLE NOUN:
7. COUNTABLE NOUN:
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How to Teach English Grammar Communicatively - TEFL Blog
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Teach English Grammar Communicatively
In today's emphasis on quality education and the development of communicative competence in English, "English grammar "seems to be a big taboo when talking about English teaching. Most English teachers feel comfortable teaching a conversation lesson or a lesson that integrates other skills such as listening, reading, or writing. They show creativity in those lessons and include various ideas to help students improve their language skills. how ever this, however, more difficult when teaching a grammar topic.
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Goals
Steps
The last activity in the grammar lesson is a communicative activity, this is really the culmination of the lesson.
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English Grammar Corner - General Grammar Tips
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Word Categories: Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs
Move the words below into the correct boxes for nouns, adjectives, and verbs....
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Songs as a Tool to Teach Grammar - TEFL Blog
Thu, 08 Aug 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Songs as a Tool to Teach Grammar
To begin with, I have been teaching English for more than 30 years. I teach groups of students and individuals of different ages and abilities. That is why I have always had a problem how to raise my students' motivation, how to make my lessons interesting and exciting so that the bell at the end of the class would be for me, not for my students. I have always wanted them to be upset that the lesson is over. As a result of this research, I concluded that along with having different games, quizzes, puzzles, crosswords and project works, learning and singing songs is as challenging and helpful as doing grammar exercises. The results of learning English songs by heart is stunning. Do not think that I do... [Read more]
CLT: The Best Way to Teach Grammar - TEFL Blog
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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CLT: The Best Way to Teach Grammar
"The role of grammar is perhaps one of the most controversial issues in language teaching" (Richards and Renandya, 2002, p.145). From the past to the present, there have been so many changes in methodologists' views on which grammar items should be taught and how to teach them.
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Traditional Approach
CLT
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Grammar Lessons: Does Teaching Standard Grammar Mean Delivering it Like a Native Speaker? - TEFL Blog
Thu, 19 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Grammar Lessons: Does Teaching Standard Grammar Mean Delivering it Like a Native Speaker?
Studying and learning standard English grammar is an experience that most native speakers must also do. Furthermore, even after learning grammar in an English education system, many native speakers still make grammatical errors in their everyday conversations, and especially so when writing formal documents.
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Is clarity is over norms and rules?
Is focusing on mistakes effective?
Variations
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Long Vowel Sounds "-i" Word List
Here's a useful word list with long vowel sounds to use with your ESL students.
Long vowel sound spelling patterns are quite difficult for students to learn. First they must understand that more than one letter can be used to represent one sound and then learn the various ways that the sound can be represented in print.
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The Importance of Grammar and How We Teach it - TEFL Blog
Wed, 08 Jan 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Importance of Grammar and How We Teach it
Teaching grammar is one of the most challenging things for a teacher of English. As a student, it is essential to learn grammar as this gives you accuracy both in writing and speaking. This applies to every language, not only to English.
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Grammar vs. Math
Balanced Approach to Teaching
Verb as a Core of Language Teaching
Approaches to Teaching Grammar
Past Perfect Past Tense Present Future
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Entertaining Approach to Teaching Grammar - TEFL Blog
Tue, 23 Jul 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Entertaining Approach to Teaching Grammar
Grammatical structures are the essential building blocks to any language, English is no exception. Without a frame, a painting will fall off the wall or lose its form. The meaning behind the words is very much the same as a painting in a frame. The ideas which are meant to be conveyed are like the characters of a painting, the grammatical tools are like the colors, the structure and order of the words are like the brushstrokes which add depth and tone to a work of art. English is art. Subjects, objects, and verbs are the colors, shapes, and tones of basic English.
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Why to teach grammar?
Entertaining approach to teaching grammar
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Elicitation and study
Activate
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English Grammar - Future continuous - Structure - Teach English TESOL
This video from one of ITTT's TESOL courses looks at how the future continuous tense is formed and used. Firstly, the structure:
Positive: Subject + will + be + present participle.
I will be learning to teach English.
Negative: Subject + will + not + be + present participle.
I will not be coming to the party.
Question: Will + subject + be + present participle?
Will you be staying for the weekend?
Now the usages:
Actions in progress at a future time.
She'll be playing live at Wembley on the 16th.
Predict the present.
He'll be getting on the plane about now.
Polite enquiries (without influence):
Will you be coming to the party?
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English Grammar - Future continuous - Usage - Teach English TEFL
In this TEFL video the trainer covers some of the usages of the future continuous tense. These include:
Actions in progress at a future time:
I'll be teaching English this time next week.
Predicting the present:
She'll be getting on the plane about now.
Polite enquiries (without influence):
Will you be coming to the party?
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What is Grammar and How to Teach it to ESL Students? - TEFL Blog
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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What is Grammar and How to Teach it to ESL Students?
Grammar plays a very important role in learning and teaching a foreign language. What is grammar? Crystal describes grammar as "the business of taking a language to pieces, to see how it works" (as cited in Bentsen, 2017).
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Definition of Grammar
Explicit Grammar Teaching
Williams believes that meaning-focused instruction
Communicative Approach
Nunan defines communicative language teaching as
Larsen-Freeman's recommended that grammar teaching
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5 Secrets How to Teach English Grammar to ESL Students Easily - TEFL Blog
Mon, 01 Mar 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Secrets How to Teach English Grammar to ESL Students Easily
Some learners are very interested in finding out or learning grammar rules and doing lots of grammar exercises. Others hate grammar and think it is the most boring part of learning a new language. Whatever opinion you have, however, you cannot escape from grammar.
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1. Listening lays the foundation for learning any language, and it is the basis of all lessons
2. Watch and learn
3. Read many English books as possible
4. Know the parts of speech
5. Look for partners
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How to Help Chinese Native Speakers to Follow English Grammar Rules in Speaking - TEFL Blog
Wed, 09 Oct 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Help Chinese Native Speakers to Follow English Grammar Rules in Speaking
Grammar is the rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in a natural language. Simply put, grammar is the general rule of a language. Language is logical; grammar tells us in which order we say words. It's about how words become phrases; how words and phrases become sentences and how sentences become language.
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The Essence of Grammar
Different languages have different grammar rules
How to teach grammar (EFL: how to teach Chinese students English)
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10 Tips for Teaching Grammar to EFL Students Abroad - TEFL Blog
Sun, 07 Oct 2018 Linda Dunsmore
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10 Tips for Teaching Grammar to EFL Students Abroad
Teaching English grammar is an important part of any EFL classroom. Depending on the level of your students and the degree of difficulty of the topics, the teacher may encounter several problems in the classroom. However, the following 10 tips should help you to prepare effective grammar lessons for your EFL students abroad.
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1. Show your students why grammar matters
2. Give quizzes that grade themselves
3. Use games to teach grammar
4. Put students in the role of the teacher
5. Take requests
6. Have students set up learning goals
7. Encourage and reward error-finding
8. Write original sentences
9. Use videos wisely
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English Grammar - Future Simple - Teaching Ideas - Teach English certification
The future simple tense can be used for threats, promises and predictions. In this video we look at a teaching idea for the predictions usage. In pairs students are given a card with some prompts and responses. One student reads the prompt and the other responds with the given comment and their own sentence in the future simple tense. For example:
Student 1: I've lost my shoe.
Student 2: Don't worry. It'll turn up somewhere.
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English Grammar - Future Perfect - Usage - Teach English Abroad
In this video the teacher trainer looks at how the future perfect is formed. This is as follows:
Positive: Subject + will + have + past participle
I will have qualified to teach English abroad by the end of the month.
Negative: Subject + will + not + have + past participle
I will not (won't) have started teaching before you arrive.
Question: Will + subject + have + past participle?
Will you have found somewhere to live by then?
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The Best Way to Teach Grammar and Vocabulary in an ESL Class - TEFL Blog
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Best Way to Teach Grammar and Vocabulary in an ESL Class
Students from many different backgrounds with various skillsets, native languages, cultures, and experiences daily enter my Level 3 Low-Intermediatlow-intermediate Some students come having been exposed to English from a young age watching American television or listening to popular songs. Some of these students feel comfortable speaking in simple, broken sentences but communicating, nonetheless. Others step into the ESL classroom timid and insecure. They've just recently learned the Roman alphabet and have difficulty understanding simple directions or piecing words together. Regardless of where students come from and their prior experience with the English language, there... [Read more]
Reasons Why You Can’t Avoid Teaching Grammar - TEFL Blog
Mon, 24 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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Reasons Why You Can’t Avoid Teaching Grammar
In a world where communication is the most important thing and language - your own or a second (even third or fourth) - grammar seems to be overlooked by people as unimportant. But is that really so? And is this true for all areas of communication? And do we only tend to say this because grammar is challenging for both teachers and learners?
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Grammar-Translation Method
In Modern World
Definitions
So do we leave grammar out of our curricula?
Grammar in Communication
Different Approach
Real State of Grammar in Class
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English Grammar -- Present Perfect Continuous -- Structure 2- Teach English Abroad
This is the second ITTT video that looks at the structure of the Present Perfect Continuous tense. This time we focus on the question form.
Question form: auxiliary verb 'have/has' + subject + been + present participle
Have I/you/we/they been teaching for five years?
Has he/she/it been teaching for five years?
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English Grammar - Future Perfect Continuous - Teaching Ideas - Teach English Overseas
The future perfect continuous is not used a lot in everyday English usage. However, it does come up in when your EFL students get more advanced and if you plan to teach English overseas it is important to have an understanding of the less frequently used tenses. As the future perfect continuous is not often used it can be a struggle to think up teaching ideas for it. The trainer in this video shows us one idea that can be used for the tense. For this activity the students conduct a survey to find out how long someone will have been doing something by a certain point in the future. For example:
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Glossary of ESL Cooking Terms
This page has a glossary of ESL cooking terms several tasks for you to do to help you remember these vocabulary words. Being able to cook is a useful skill, and it is also good to be able to talk about food and cooking. It is also a great topic to talk about with EFL students around the world because everyone likes to eat. The vocabulary on this page will let you explain about cooking and the kitchen.
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English Grammar - Future Perfect - Teaching Ideas - Teach English as a Foreign Language
This video from one of ITTT's teach English as a foreign language courses covers three teaching ideas for the future perfect tense. The future perfect is used to talk about things that will have been completed by a certain date in the future.
The first idea involves asking students the following question "What will you have done by ...?" with an appropriate time in the future. For example: "What will you have done by the time you are 25?" "I will have become an English teacher".
The second idea involves giving students monthly calendars to complete and asking them to say what they will have done by the end of the month.
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English Grammar - Future Perfect Continuous - Usage - Teach English as a Second Language
This video explains the usage of the future perfect continuous tense. This tense is used to talk about how long an action/event will have been going on by a certain time in the future. Although the future perfect continuous is rarely used in everyday English, if you are looking to teach English as a second language, you will need to be knowledgeable on even rare grammar points such as this. So if you are considering entering the world of English teaching the best way to equip yourself with the necessary skills is to take a comprehensive TEFL course and ITTT's online TEFL courses give you a good foundation in the areas of English grammar that you are most likely to encounter when you first set... [Read more]
5 Best Approaches to Teaching Grammar to Young ESL Learners - TEFL Blog
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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5 Best Approaches to Teaching Grammar to Young ESL Learners
English is not the native language of those who begin to learn English. For children in Vietnam as a country using English as a second language, learning English grammar is difficult for children to learn. So how to teach children grammar effectively and children remember and use it most naturally.
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1. Learn grammar through games:
2. Practice:
3. Learning English in a mixed and systematic way:
4. Set up groups, create environments for children to read and write.
5. Simplify, review and edit:
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Why Teaching Grammar is The Biggest Fear of TEFL Teachers
Grammar is always present in our lives since elementary school when we learn the Grammar of our native language. This been said, it is a hundred percent positive that we will find Grammar again every time we start to learn a different language. As teachers, most of us love to teach vocabulary, reading comprehension, and writing, but we do not feel so excited about it when it comes to Grammar. In my case, and I'm not the only one, I genuinely enjoy teaching this part of the language. For me, teaching grammar is challenging, passionate, and rewarding.
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Vancouver, Canada - ESL job
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We are looking for enthusiastic and experienced ESL conversation teachers. You must be able to teach grammar, listening, idioms, pronunciation, vocabulary and conversation.
We teach adult university students and professionals from all around the world. Students discuss global issues, economy, media, gender and sex, family politics and social problems.
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