3rd Week with About.com

Language Recycling: Passive Voice

Students will become more confident and competent with the use of the passive voice in daily conversations when it is repeated frequently. Bear in mind that the subject area that the students discuss should be limited to a targeted area as not to confuse or make it too difficult for them to comprehend. Students are more likely to produce the targeted outcome when their oral production task is clearly defined for they do not have to concern with the creation of a self-chosen subject.


The Induction Method: Quiz Maze









ESL Inductive Learning and Grammar Review Maze




This learning game helps students to inductively review previously studied grammar.

Instructions

• To correctly move through this maze, students must choose if the sentence is correct or incorrect.

• Black arrows are for correct answers, red arrows for incorrect answers.

• Two numbers are left out of the correct path of the maze.

• If students can't find their way out they know that they have made a mistake along the way and need to check through the sentences again!

Here are the sentence links divided into levels. The final link gives the key to the maze, which is the same for each level. Feel free to print the image out and use the sentences for the appropriate level, or, make up your own sentences - just be sure that the correct and incorrect sentences correspond to the key. :-)

Learning Grammar through Conversation

The aim of this class exercise is to use past forms of modal verbs of probability and advice to reason and discuss difficult issues. The teacher will present a difficult problem and students are asked to use the past forms of modal verbs, for example, must have been, should have done, etc. to discuss the problem and offer suggestions for a possible solution.

• Once the students have discussed the presented difficult problem, divide them into small groups.

• Students then are asked to fill out the sheet including Facts, Conclusions and Judgment and remember to remind them that modal verbs of probability should be used when appropriate.

• Once decisions are reached among the groups, have a class debate and ask each group to share and debate their opinions.

• Keep the conversations going by asking students to think of similar situations that they have heard or been involved with?

The Old School: Grammar Banging

About.com points out:

…“grammar banging” (intensive grammar review sheets) is useful at the end or beginning of the year. The end of year calls for exam preparation and the beginning calls for some review to raise awareness of what has already been learnt and where problems still lies. The sheets provide in these “grammar banging” reviews are very effective because each question focuses on one important, specific area.

English Beginner Grammar Review

Lower Intermediate English Grammar Review

Intermediate English Grammar Review

Advanced English Grammar Review