Olga Goncharova,BKC-IH Moscow

2013

Bridging the gap between primary and secondary

grammar learning

Language awareness with YL: understanding how English works • Implicit learning of grammar patterns: YL learn

unanalysed chunks of language and phrases in a holistic way through lesson routines, songs, rhymes, stories, games

• Observe and notice patterns and introduce elements of grammar analysis.

• Students construct and use patterns.• Explicit grammar rules.

Grammar Detectives

There’s an elephant, an eggan apple and an umbrella

in Box 1. Why?

There’ s a cat, a shoe, a hat and a banana

in Box 2. Why?

Grammar Detectives

There’s an elephant, an eggan apple and an umbrella inBox 1. Why?

There’s a cat, a shoe, a hat and a banana in Box 2. Why?

Grammar Detectives

There’s an elephant, an eggan apple and an umbrella inBox 1. Why?

There’s a cat, a shoe, a hat and a banana in Box 2. Why?

What’s the rule?

The words in Box 1 start with .................... (...., ...., ...., ...., ....)The words in Box 2 start with .................... (...., ...., ...., ...., .... etc)

Grammar Detectives

There’s an elephant, an eggan apple and an umbrella inBox 1. Why?

There’s a cat, a shoe, a hat and a banana in Box 2. Why?

What’s the rule?The words in Box 1 start with a vowel (a, e, i, o, u)The words in Box 2 start with a consonant (b, c, d, f, g, h, j etc)

Using Logical Deduction Alison Simon

His trousers are grey.

Her hair is brown.

Her jacket is red. Tim Caroline His shoes are black.

Happy Street 2 new ed, Stella Maidment & Lorena Roberts, OUP

Using Logical Deduction Alison Simon

Her jacket is red. His trousers are grey.

Tim Caroline

His shoes are black. Her hair is brown.

Using Logical Deduction his = boy / man her = girl / woman Alison Simon

Her jacket is red. His trousers are grey.

Tim Caroline

His shoes are black. Her hair is brown.

Using Logical Deduction

..... jacket is purple, pink and black. ..... bag is grey.

..... t-shirt is blue and white. ..... trousers are pink.

..... trousers are blue. ..... shoes are white.

..... skirt is blue. ..... hair is black. ..... hair is brown.

..... trousers are grey. ..... t-shirt is white.

..... tights are red.

do What to they go ?

live ? When she school for does

do get up ? breakfast he Where

you does How have ?

Colour-coding

Color-coded grammar words

• Red: Question words• Pink: Auxiliaries• Yellow: Subjects

• Green: Verbs• Blue: Prepositions

• Purple: Nouns

Sentence scramble• Sts choose a long sentence from one of their

grammar exercises, e.g. 2nd conditional. • Sts write one word/punctuation sign on each

piece of paper. • They mix up the pieces of paper and move on to

another st’s seat to unjumble his/her sentence.• When Sts finish, they check with the St who made

the sentences Extra challenge:• Sts add one extra piece of paper with a word that

doesn’t fit into the sentence. Sts have to reorder the sentences and spot the ‘intruder’ word.

Discover the question• 1 student – with his back to the board• Teacher writes a question on Wb• Other students answer in short sentences

Sts are encouraged to actively listen out for grammar as this is the key to guessing the question correctly

Photos

1 2

Using Logical Deduction 2

She is Jack’s mum

They are Daisy’s parents

Happy Street 2 new ed,Stella Maidment & Lorena RobertsOUP

Using Mime, Movement and Gesture

Using Mime, Movement and Gesture

am / ’m are / ’re

are not / aren’t

is not / isn’t

are / ’re are not / aren’t

am not / ’m not is / ’s

Classifying

s

boy - boys lunch - lunches

potato - potatoes

class - classes

wish - wishes

box - boxes

baby - babies child – childrenfoot – feet

Classifying

bus friend car bananas cat beach fox

glass man woman story table foot city pen day tooth shirt mouse country bike

tomato person tree flower lady prince princess

s es yies irregular

boy - boys lunch - lunchespotato - potatoesclass - classeswish - wishesbox – boxes

baby - babies child – childrenfoot – feet

person – peopleman – men

woman – womentooth – teethmouse - mice

Personalisation

Everyone’s Different!!

younger taller smaller thinner

shorter bigger older longer

Personalisation

Everyone’s Different!!

younger taller smaller thinner

shorter bigger older longer

How many sentences can you make about the teachers/students at your school?Eg: Olga’s shorter than everybody else in Teacher Training.

Vova …………………………………………………………….

Dima …………………………………………………………….

Ira’s hair …………………………………………………..

Personalized gap-fill• T. writes 5-7 sentences on the board which contain

the target structure with gaps for Sts to fill in. Use Sts’ names and details about them (less challenging:

write the words they must use at the top of the board)

• Sts copy down the sentences, filling in the gaps• Sts decide if the sentences are true or false. E.g. Vova’s parents _______ from Moscow.• Good for: tenses, adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, modals

Thank you very much for coming!