How to teach Grammar?

                                                             How to teach grammar?

Grammar is one of the most important parts of the English learning process, but if we talk about grammar it sounds hard and bored, but time is changing and nowadays there is a lot of resources to use.  A lot of students are scared about the word “GRAMMAR”, but not only them because teachers are scared too. They could even think that is almost impossible to learn all the rules and exceptions. I know that Grammar is not the most exciting subject in the world, but it's very important for learning a new language.

                                                             

                                               

                                   Grammar Activities

Celebrity profiles

Another great way of teaching grammar is by finding out which celebrities or sports stars your students admire. The teacher should look for a short biography or either writes one summarizing the main celebrity’s achievements. Thus, students will have good examples of present perfect and simple past tenses.

Food Tasting

First, check with a department head to get permission to bring food to class. Be sure that you are aware of any student food allergies. Place students into groups of four or five. Hand each group a finger-food item to taste. Include family foods like chocolates, marshmallows and pickles as well as foods they may not be familiar with like vegetable chips or ribbon candy. Give each group three minutes to brainstorm as many adjectives as possible to describe each food item before moving on to the next one. At the end of the tasting, award prizes (like homework passes) to the group with the most adjectives as well as to the group with the most creative but accurate descriptions.

Teaching grammar through song and rhymes

 

Songs are one of the most enchanting and culturally rich resources that can easily be used in language classrooms. Songs offer a change from routine classroom activities. They are precious resources to develop students’ abilities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. They can also be used to teach a variety of language items such as sentence patterns, vocabulary, pronunciation, rhythm, adjectives, and adverbs.

Reflection

In my opinion, there are many activities to teach grammar and the teacher can decide which methods he or she wants to use.I like the grammar activities with songs because the students can develop listening,vocabulary and they can participate and practice their skills and grammar knowledge.