PowerPoint show explaining the passive voice. Although I’m an advocate of ‘next generation’ presentation software such as Prezi, I still have a soft spot in my heart for good old PowerPoint. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, it remains a dynamic way of presenting language in class. Secondly, it marked my early forays into the use of technology in the classroom.
Indeed, as someone who regularly discards materials, most of the oldest and most faithfully reused resources are some of my PowerPoint shows that I created when I first started messing around with the application… here’s one that’s more than 10 years old, freshly updated to reflect this year’s World Cup event! A screenshot of one of the slides in this PowerPoint show You can download this PPT here. How to get 10 grammar teaching activities from one video clip. Today I’m going to show you how to use a video clip to uncover a variety of different language points in class. While the examples I give are somewhat specific to this clip, many if not all can be used with other clips without a great deal of adaptation required. Basically, today’s post is a template of ideas for using video clips that have no dialogue.
Before we begin, though, let me give you a little bit of background on this clip, which is one of my favourite on the whole of YouTube. What we see in this incredible video are scenes shot from a streetcar traveling down Market Street in San Francisco in 1905. This footage was captured just before the earthquake and fire of 1906 which completely destroyed the area. Ok, before we get down to business, I’d like you all to watch the video yourselves, just to get a feel of it… That really is something, isn’t it? Now, let’s think of all the ways we can use this clip to uncover grammar points in the classroom. Talking about the past 1. 2. 3. 4. Plans and intentions 'going to' | Johnny Grammar | Learn English | British Council.
Teacher talk - Error correction. Proofreading Marks and How to Use Them--Grammar Tutorial | Writing with Sharon Watson-Easy-to-use Homeschool Writing Curriculum. Do your students waste endless time erasing whole sentences? Do they become discouraged when they look at their rough drafts filled with arrows, illegible notes in the margins, and ugly lines of scratched-out writing?
Let’s save them the pain by teaching them these handy, easy-to-use proofreading marks. I’ve watched students in my writing classes scratch out whole sentences and rewrite them. They draw lines through words. They burn up their papers and crumble their erasers just to change something. This is totally unnecessary. There’s an easier—and quicker—way to proofread that doesn’t require a lot of rewriting, which should be good news to our students. This is the last in a series of tutorials on grammar. If you’re dying to know what the other grammar tutorials are about, click here for one on punctuation in dialog. And click here for the hard-hitting exposé on where to put the comma, period, colon, or semicolon when using quotation marks. Proofreading Marks Tutorial “John Newton” English exercises - grammar exercises - learn English online. Road To Grammar --- Your Road to Better Grammar.
1. Types of Adverbs.