UNIT 1 GRAMMAR

UNIT 1 GRAMMAR

    In unit 1 I learned about grammar it is a very important topic for teachers and students during the learning process in a second language. Grammar is the useful tool to combine, organize and join words, sentences and paragraphs to understand the meaning of different ideas provided by pupils. Also, a teacher should keep in his or her mind a clear definition  of each term (e.g. prepositions, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prefixes, suffixes) and provide pupils understandable examples to learn easily. Nonetheless, to teach grammar is not easy, so teachers should find some strategies and many ways to teach, where everybody catch the knowledge as we know in a classroom we can find multiple intelligences especially with children a teacher have to be creative with grammar and call the attention from them using (games, charts, funny stories) and over of all them motivation is the key word to work with them,  on the other hand with adults  is totally different because we need to adapt the material and search more extra exercises where they have the oppotunity to practice and make mistakes because  if they make mistakes they learn from them, so in that way they can notice their own errorss while they are practicing. Moreover, I as future teacher have to be prepared to teach English language and face some problems from them. As we know to work with different levels is not easy for that reason every  single day study grammar terms and apply it with future students. Furthermore, grammar from L1 an L2 are totally different for example in L1 the grammar in the following sentence (Mi casa bonita) as we can see the adjective is used after the noun the position is different, but in L2 we say (My beautiful house) here the adjective is used before the noun, so it can create a big confusion. Personally, I can say that  teachers have a big responsability to teach grammar carefully. I would like to use different colors of markers to teach parts of speech, start the class with a warm up where they apply grammar unconsciously, as I mentioned before telling stories, also to ask  my students to write on the board sentences and then analyze together it they are right or wrong, to write in a big cardboard some sentences with mistakes and ask students to watch carefully and identify where are the mistakes.

Here are some pictures how to teach grammar our students:

   Use of parts of speech with different colors

Learn grammar  through games

Write on the board sentences with some mistakes

References for adittional information

• Eslbase,. (2015). Teaching Grammar with Fun Learning Games. Retrieved 15 April 2015, from http://www.eslbase.com/articles/learning-games

• YouTube,. (2015). TEFL Online Tutorial: Teaching Grammar in Context. Retrieved 15 April 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnw3l21pWIc

• Iteslj.org,. (2015). Saricoban & Metin - Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar (TESL/TEFL). Retrieved 15 April 2015, from http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Saricoban-Songs.html

• Google Books,. (2015). Laugh and Learn Grammar. Retrieved 15 April 2015, from https://books.google.com.ec/books?id=P-Jnmcpr-vsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=how+to+teach+gram