By Elias Stenersen
Grammar is a part of
the English language that can be challenging to teach and boring to learn in the
EFL classroom. The many rules and exceptions of grammar can seem unnecessary
from the pupils’ perspective, but they are in fact very important. The correct
use of grammar will create sentences that are understandable and that makes
sense when writing and speaking English. Pupils in the EFL classroom are not
exposed to the English language at a daily basis and therefore it is important
that they learn the grammatical rules and aspects of English and how to use it correctly.
Repeating rules,
finding nouns, adjectives, verbs and learning the different tenses can be, as
mentioned above, boring for pupils to learn. However, it is a crucial part of
the English language, and important to learn in order to be able to be
understood by other speakers of English. Without the correct grammar, sentences
can become unclear and even impossible to understand. That is why I believe
grammar is very important when teaching grammar for non-native speakers of
English in the EFL classroom.
An important part of
English grammar is to know lexical words (Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs)
and knowing how to apply them correctly. Since I have very little experience in
teaching English grammar, I used the book Introducing
English Grammar to get some ideas.
Task A.
Read the following text and
underline the verbs.
Task B.
Write the verbs from task A in
simple present, past and future tense.
Task C.
Read the following text and
insert the correct verbs in the correct form.
Task A will help the
students remember what a verb is and help them recall what they have previously
learned about verbs. Task B is going to help them recall and further understand
the pattern of how verbs are written in the different tenses. Task C will help
the pupils further understand how verbs should be applied to complete sentences
as well as they get to practice their conjugation of verbs into the correct
tense according to the rest of the text.
Det underlige er enkelt noe fint angående grammatikk. Bra jobbet.
ReplyDeleteI think the tasks you have chosen are great, and they focus on several aspects of the verb word class. Great job :)
ReplyDeleteVery nicely written and good example tasks for working with verbs with your own reflection on how each task will help pupils learn/remember verbs and how they are used in different texts. Just wonder what you mean by "little exposure to English on a daily basis is another reason to learn grammatical rules of English"? Do you mean if learners of English receive sufficient input, they do not need to learn grammar?
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