Teaching Grammar, Verb Tenses?, Philippines

Hi Lorna

Try using MS PowerPoint with Graphics or Clip Art to demonstrate the item to be learned in support of the text or grammar rule you wish your students to study. It can work out to be around 160 slides to cover all areas of English grammar, I found, but you can group them using hyperlinks from content slides to access the lesson required rather than keep scrolling through them all (ee my breakdown listing below).

My complete own onscreen PowerPoint ??œLearning English Grammar?? took me around 6 months to compile in this format.

Hope this helps you with your problem.

Regards

John F

Menu of English Grammar

Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs.

Antonyms.

Capital letters.

Clinches, Idioms, Proverbs.

Common Letter Strings.

Double Meanings.

Doubling the Consonant.

Homographs.

Homophones.

I before e?

Imagery.

Nouns.

Paragraphs.

Phonemes.

Plurals.

Pronouns, Prepositions and Connectives.

Punctuation.

Question Sentences.

Soft c, Hard c.

Soft g, Hard g.Sentence Rules.

Silent Letters.

Sounds of Letters.

Synonyms.

The Apostrophe.

There, Their and They???re.

To, Too and Two.

Tricky Plurals.

Types of Sentences.

Verbs.

Verb Tenses.

Vowels and Consonants.

Word Sounds.

Grammar: Word Building

Word Building.

Prefixes.

Common Prefixes 1. Common Prefixes 2. Suffixes.

Consonant Suffixes.

Vowel Suffixes.

Forms of Writing

Formal Letter.

Informal Letter.

Hi Lorna,

I'm Isabel from Chile. I teach verb tenses or grammar "in disguise". That is because my students don't like the word grammar nor anything linked with it, so what I do is first is

Give a sample sentence of the target tense, for example: I went to the beach last summer "What did you do?". The answers may vary, even students can answer in present tense, at this stage we should not correct them.

Then I introduce "formula" that is in fact, word order:Affirmative; Person+verb-ed+rest of the sentence(ros);For negative:person+did+not+verb+ros, and for questions did+person+verb+ros?

After oral and written practice, I start with the use of computers, a good idea to work with is worsheets online, you can make them by your own selecting appropriate material for the level or the class you are working with. A advisable site is Trackstar.

I add a sample to use for present perfect tense, I hope you like it http://wizard.4teachers.org/builder/worksheet.php3?ID=84440

Hi Lorna.

I am an English teacher in Denmark.

At the teacher's college we had a cd-rom that we used for learning grammar. The same teaching materiel is used for the High school students.

I am sure you will be able to find this teaching materiel available from a bookstore on the net.

Good luck from Inger.

Hi Lorna! 

 My name is Luis from argenina, I had the same problem but is not a big deal, If you have Windows Office, you should try with simple graphics with big words and make slides covering just one subject, "Past Simple".

Use funny Clip Art to show your student that it is an easy way to study English.

I hope this help you!

Bye,

Hi, Lorna,

I teach English to Italian students, aged 11-13.  There are several usefukl software. I normally use the Internet, where we can find lots of resources: try www.ego4u.com. If you like I could send you other interesting links.

Have a good work...bye,

Ademario

I am new to ePals.  I have several powerpoint presentations that might help you but am not sure how to forward those to you.  If you will direct me, I will send them.