hi again everbody,
I need help for two things and I hope you can make some suggestions for me.
The first one is that this Tuesday I will have a lesson at METU College and I am supposed to be teaching Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses. I will not have a presentation part but only practice and production activities and make the students see the difference between these two tenses. so if you know any good activity to emphasize the difference, can you share it with me? But please be quick if you help me, because as I said it is for Tuesday morning:(
The second one is that I have a three diamentional audio and I want to share it with you but I cannot apload it. Is there anyone who knows what I should do?
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Teaching Inductively
Hi everybody,
I wanted to say something about grammar teaching. Our mentor teacher teaches the grammar topics in a very effective way that I really appreciate her. I always thought that teaching grammar inductively would be too difficult although I am sure that it would be effective. However, our mentor teacher manages it perfectly; she teaches inductively in a very simple and natural way and I begin to think that I can manage it, as well. She simply creates an environment where the students can only use that structure and she gives chance to every student to speak. Now I do not think that teaching grammar inductively would be that difficult. What do you think?
I wanted to say something about grammar teaching. Our mentor teacher teaches the grammar topics in a very effective way that I really appreciate her. I always thought that teaching grammar inductively would be too difficult although I am sure that it would be effective. However, our mentor teacher manages it perfectly; she teaches inductively in a very simple and natural way and I begin to think that I can manage it, as well. She simply creates an environment where the students can only use that structure and she gives chance to every student to speak. Now I do not think that teaching grammar inductively would be that difficult. What do you think?
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Our Photo
Hi everybody,
you can download the photo this way. But please be quick because after some time, I can delete this post as I look like a boy in front :))
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Showing the Wrong Version
Hi everybody,
I want to share another thing with you and learn what you think about it. Our mentor teacher always shows the wrong version of something in the class, crosses it and then shows the correct form such as spelling of a word. She, for example, writes "musn't" on the board, crosses it and says it is wrong and writes the correct spelling. She even does this with sentence structure. She writes on the board that “She must speaks English in the class”, says that it is a common mistake among learners and crosses the “s” sound. I know that she is doing that to prevent such mistakes but I think it is wrong. If there is any mistake, we should correct it after it occurs but we again should not write it on the board or mention it a lot. I believe that we should not expose our students with the wrong usage no matter what our aim is. It may cause a lot of problems. What do you think?
I want to share another thing with you and learn what you think about it. Our mentor teacher always shows the wrong version of something in the class, crosses it and then shows the correct form such as spelling of a word. She, for example, writes "musn't" on the board, crosses it and says it is wrong and writes the correct spelling. She even does this with sentence structure. She writes on the board that “She must speaks English in the class”, says that it is a common mistake among learners and crosses the “s” sound. I know that she is doing that to prevent such mistakes but I think it is wrong. If there is any mistake, we should correct it after it occurs but we again should not write it on the board or mention it a lot. I believe that we should not expose our students with the wrong usage no matter what our aim is. It may cause a lot of problems. What do you think?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
