Post Webinar Tasks 1. Create a riddle and share it with the group in comments. (Don’t forget to tag me in the comment). 2. Make a timeline for certain tenses use or to illustrate a story (by using the tenses). (You can find some suggested tools in the presentation). 3. Find a MadLib on Google, use it in class, take a picture of one of the filled in MadLibs and post it in the comments. 4. Create a set of cards for a certain grammar topic and share it with the rest in comments or in a separate post. Note! Don’t forget to tag me and Irina in the posts and comments with the accomplished tasks. Post Webinar Tasks 1. Create a riddle and share it with the group in comments. (Don’t forget to tag me in the comment). 2. Make a timeline for certain tenses use or to illustrate a story (by using the tenses). (You can find some suggested tools in the presentation). 3. Find a MadLib on Google, use it in class, take a picture of one of the filled in MadLibs and post it in the comments. 4. Create a set of cards for a certain grammar topic and share it with the rest in comments or in a separate post. Note! Don’t forget to tag me and Irina in the posts and comments with the accomplished tasks. Alternative ways of teaching grammar

1. Grammar can be fun!
Alternative ways of teaching grammar
BY LILIANA NEDERITA

2. Do you like to teach grammar?

3. Do your students like the grammar
topics?

4. How do you make teaching grammar
fun?

5. March, 4th is World Grammar Day!

6. Mention the word
"grammar" and students
will cringe. In fact, most
teachers will cringe, too.
Claudia Pesce

7. Is Grammar Really Important for a
Second Language Learner?

9.  “Grammar is the
backbone of a language
 Grammar provides you
with the structure you
need in order to
organize and put your
messages and ideas
across.”

11. Teaching grammar

12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_eBrIDUuc

13.  “Our primary goal as second language teachers must be to create users of
the language, not linguists!”

14. How to teach grammar?

15. Traditional Way

16. Multiple Intelligence Theory
Howard Gardner

17. Alternative Ways

18. Make it an authentic task
 Introduce the form
 Find all the Passive Voice structures in the given newspaper article.
 “Breaking News!” Create and shoot your own news! (use PV)

19. Using Humour
 Grammar fails

22. Games
verb – adverb charades
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/04/lp334-02.shtml

23. Pair Editing
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/TM/WS_lp334-04b-download.pdf

24. Get your sentences in order
 For younger children
‘the A swims on
duck pond.’
 Write on individual slips of paper,
get Ss to put the words in the
correct order
 Variation
 Use movement – put words
around the room, make it a race.

25. ‘hot potato’, musical chairs
 Making up sentences
 Saying statements with a certain
grammar structure:
 I have got a ...
 Stick under the chair a personal
pronoun, whoever gets the hot
potato when the music stops has
to take the pronoun and give a
possessive (for e.g.)

26. Grammar Riddles
John has been speaking on the phone for 2 hours.
Alice has spoken on the phone.
Ann is always speaking on the phone.
Drew usually speaks on the phone.
Who is not necessarily on the phone now?
Whose action annoys the writer?
Who is actually on the phone now?

27. Grammar Riddles
1. John is going to see a doctor about his
liver problems.
2. Alice is seeing a doctor about her
pregnancy.
3. Ann said “I will see a doctor as soon as
the problem occurs again”.
4. Drew is always seeing doctors.
Who actually made an appointment with
the doctor?

28.  When John came home at 8 pm the apartment had already
been ransacked by the burglars.
 Alice was on her way when the apartment was being
ransacked by the burglars.
 Ann would have been home if she hadn’t been held in traffic.
 Drew will have got home by 8 pm.
Who had the highest chance of finding the burglars in the
apartment.

29.  John has been working on painting the house for 3 years.
 Alice had painted the house before Christmas holidays.
 Ann has painted the house.
 Drew is painting the house blue; he has already bought the
paint.
Who didn’t even start painting the house?

30. Task
 Solve the given riddles
 Contribute - Make your own
 Share - Present it to the audience

31. Using timelines

32. Timeline online tools
 TIMELINE
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-
resources/student-interactives/timeline-30007.html
 timeglider
https://timeglider.com/

33. Task:
 Make a timeline
 Speak about inventions using Past
Perfect (6th Form), Past Perfect
Continuous (7th form)

34. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/71/da/9d/71da9d6240e2855bde2c26808b2614d0.jpg
discovery technique

35. Example
New Headway 4th Edition (Elementary)

36. Task:
 Work in groups
 Fill in the list

37. Mad Libs – teaching
parts of speech
https://s-media-cache-
ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f7/7b/49/f77b492883b5eba4ad64b
3ed02a51964.jpg

38. Board Games – So… what’s
the question? (5th form)
 Personal Questions
 Public Place Questions

39. Playing Cards

41. Task:
 Work in groups of 4-5
 Play cards
 Practice the “Do you… ?” question form and
the short answers

42. Tense tents
 To help your child understand verb
tenses, draw some ‘tense tents’ on
pieces of paper. Write down some verbs
in their various tenses – present (e.g.
play), past (played), future (will play),
future continuous (will be playing) and
so on – and get your child to move the
verbs into the correct tent.

43. Bob Obee
The Grammar Activity Book
 P. 22

44. Spontaneous/on spot games – no
preparation needed
 Practicing short answers
 Are you? Yes, I am No, I am not
 Do you? Yes, I do No, I don’t
 What is it? Is it a…? Yes it is. No it isn’t

45. Using Songs
 Structures (especially modals and conditionals) and tenses are often
repeated in the song. Blank these out as reinforcement of the grammar.

47. Videos

49. Advertisements, news, announcement
etc.
 Passive Voice

52. Conversation Games
 Corrupt a wish
 Student 1: I wish I were taller.
 Student 2: If you were taller, then you would hit your head on many
things. (Second Conditional)

53. Task:
 Everyone makes a wish
 Take each wish that has been stated and
corrupt it

54. Chain Games
 Conditional sentences
The teacher begins with a sentence, for example “If I meet Jack
I will invite him to the conference.”
The next student must use the end of the previous sentence to
begin their own sentence.
Eg S1“If I invite him to the conference, he will be pleased.”
S2 “If he is pleased he might invite me to his party”
S3 “If he invites me to his party I will meet his sister”
 Past Continuous
S1 At 5 o’clock last night I was taking a shower.
S2 While he was taking a shower, I was playing cards.

55. Celebrity biographies
 To see the difference between past simple, past perfect, present perfect
use

56. Do and don‘ts in teaching grammar

57. 1. real language and real situations in
context

58. 2. Initial focus on gist, not form

59. 3. Focus on more specific meaning

60. 4. focus
on very
specific
meaning

61. 5. Analysis and systematization - learn
how to use it

62. 6. exercises to practice the new
structure

63. 7. homework - to revise

64. 8. opportunities to practice - in REAL
or REALISTIC communicative situations

65. 9. Recycle and mention the topic again
as many times as necessary

66. Don’t
 Spend your entire
class period lecturing
your students.

67. Don’t
 Be afraid to drift from your lesson plans

68. Don’t
 Fail to offer variety

69. Don’t
 Get stuck in a routine

70. Online tools for fun grammar
 NoRedLink https://www.noredink.com/teach/tour
 http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames.html

71. References
 Julio Foppoli “Is Grammar Really Important for a Second Language Learner?” retrieved from
http://www.eslbase.com/teaching/grammar-important-second-language-learner
 “Importance of Teaching English Grammar”, retrieved from
http://www.wordsworthelt.com/blog/importance-of-teaching-english-grammar/
 The Grammar Gorillas
 https://www.funbrain.com/grammar/index.html
 Grammar Bytes
 http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
 Classroom Songs 16 Creative Ways
 http://busyteacher.org/2728-classroom-songs-16-creative-ways.html
 by Andrei ZakhareuskiHow to Make Your Grammar Lessons a Little More Interesting
 http://busyteacher.org/7765-how-to-make-grammar-lessons-more-interesting.html
 https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/conditional-chain-game