Grammar

Teacher development videos on approaches to grammar in English language teaching, and activities you can use in class.

Where’s my cheese? (IWB) lesson plan revising some prepositions of movement

Posted on by Simon Thomas
Prepositions of movement: how can the mouse get the cheese?

Level: elementary to pre-intermediate.
Ages: kids, teens and adults.
Type: competitive games; controlled and freer practice using worksheets.
Skills: speaking; listening.
Language focus: vocabulary and grammar – revising prepositions of movement.

Using ghost stories to revise narrative tenses

Posted on by Simon Thomas

Level: pre-intermediate to advanced.
Ages: teens and adults.
Type: telling a ghost story; sharing strange or unexplained stories; revising narrative forms.
Skills: reading; writing; speaking; listening; pronunciation.
Language focus: narrative tenses.

Textual Cohesion Mingle

Posted on by Simon Thomas

Level: pre-intermediate to advanced.
Ages: teens to adults.
Type: class mingle; text reconstruction; choral and individual pronunciation work on conveying emotions; group- and pair-work.
Skills: sentence grammar awareness; speaking; listening; writing.
Language focus: sentence-level grammar; textual cohesion.