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What are the best grammar activities that students need to practice more often to learn faster?

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Question added by Rana Alnajjar , Web developer , Lebcards
Date Posted: 2016/03/02
Francis Panikulam
by Francis Panikulam , Head of the English faculty , ISM International School.

      Since you haven't mentioned their level, I'll start with absolute zero beginners. You can start with flash cards that have pics and words only in English. Ex: A for ant and B for ball etc. First you start only with nouns. Make sure that they can tell the words if they see the letters of the alphabet that you have introduced. Then, you can start with "what is this ?" and "what are these ?"At this point, you have introduced them to plural forms of nouns.

      Then you can introduce pronouns, if possible with free flash cards from Tes.com. It's a great site for jobs too. Ex: It is a cat. They are cats. He is a boy.They are boys,etc.Use only simple who  and what questions.

       Any basic grammar book will tell you how to proceed further using graded beginners' exercises. If I were to teach advanced TESOL students, I would use the contextual method : No grammatical terms would be used. I would tell a simple story in about 200 words like 'The hare and the tortoise'.Using words from the story I would drill them on singular, plural, gender, synonyms, antonyms and exceptions.This enhances their vocab.

       You need to use props in the classroom and the students themselves for your exercises. Innovations, gestures and activities make your teaching effective and interesting.

You can try:

1. circling action verbs in a sentence, categorize them into present, past, or future tense, and then take turns changing the tense of the verbs;

2.find the nouns and replace with other nouns;

3. make lists of synonyms and/or antonyms and use them interchangeably;

4. differentiation between sentences written in active voice vs passive voice

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

sorry i'm not expert on these field

 

مها شرف
by مها شرف , معلمة لغة عربية , وزارة التربية السورية

Agree with your specialties answers. Thanks. 

anayat bukhari
by anayat bukhari , Researcher, English Content Writer, Publisher , Noor Foundation

Grammar is something which needs frequent practice to keep on track.

Practicing Tenses is a highly recommended way to learn English faster.

Still it's not enough to satisfy all. Some people are better in Tenses but are weak in other parts of grammar. So each learner has to analyze his own deficiencies to practice it more frequently.

Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani
by Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani , Snr. HR & Finance Officer , Sarri Zawetta Company

Thanks

Sorry , i have no idea

Apologized for the answer, I do not know the answer Leave for the professionals.

Rasha Maarabouni
by Rasha Maarabouni , Executive Registrar , Lebanese International University

There is one activity that I find enjoyable and students won't get bored while trying it:

On each  sticky notes write one  word

then make students each pick two sticky notes

Ask them to write sentences using those words while defining what verb tense to use. 

 

It is a funny game and the results are too funny.

For instance:  Use football and horse in a sentence:

So the sentence would come out as follows : A man was attacked by a horse while watching  football at home. 

Mohammad Magdy Eid
by Mohammad Magdy Eid , رئيس فريق بقسم اللغة العربية , المتحدة جروب لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والبرمجيات

If question was for Arabic language i'll answer

But I haven't knowledge of English

Gulam Mustafa Ali Khan
by Gulam Mustafa Ali Khan , Science & English Teacher , Madina Mission School, Hyderabad, India.

The following things can help your students to learn English faster.

1. Tenses

2. Structures

3. Phrasal verbs

4. Contextual meanings

5. Idioms

Yaqoub Alomar
by Yaqoub Alomar , Civil Engineer , Al-Zubeir municipality

Francis Panikulam has answered the question very well

 

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