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Ask for help > I need your help friends ! :(
I need your help friends ! :(
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sebsey
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I need your help friends ! :(
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Hi my dear colleagues!...
What concern me nowadays is that I have to teach grammar through dialogues and contexts. For example, if this week �s topic is "modals", then I have to get a text full of modal examples or a dialogue which has examples of modals in it. This is what the institution I am working in wants. They dont want me to give out mechanical, fill in the blanks types of questions.
Therefore, I am having great difficulty while finding dialogues or texts which have specific grammar elements in it. I also can do listening activities accordingly. But can �t find listening related with grammar either. :(
So, could you recommend me some web sites which have dialogues or texts about grammar points? Or if you have any, could you send me please? By the way my students � level is intermediate...
Thanks for your help in advance.
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11 Mar 2010
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verybouncyperson
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Are you working with a book, or do you have access to coursebooks? They often contain listening activities which focus on a particular point, be it grammar, vocabulary, functions and so on.
You could check out elllo.org as I know they have a wide variety of listening activities with exercises to accompany them.
Good luck,
T :)
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11 Mar 2010
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Jayho
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Hi sebsey
If you are working with adults then I have just the thing for you.
Some of the recent CUP grammar books contain CDs so that students can listen to the grammar in context. I have found them fabulous to provide listening and grammar at the same time. Although for tests they really do the same thing i.e. teach grammar in context
I recently discovered two of their books which do this:
and
You might be able to borrow these through your local library and try them out.
There are several others in the range .
Cheers
Jayho
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11 Mar 2010
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sebsey
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The problem is that I dont have any coursebook that i am working with to guide me. I wish they gave me a resource book through which I could go and adapt...However, I am preparing all the teaching materials on my own which really hardens my job :/
I really thank you for your advice. I am checking all the sites that you mentioned... |
11 Mar 2010
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RabbitWho
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I see this everywhere now. Some lunatic decided that "communicative" means learning from a written dialogue. Communication means speaking and producing the language. It has nothing to do with reading a conversation in your head or out-loud!
My heart goes out to everyone who has to prepare lessons without a course book.
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11 Mar 2010
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khaledxp
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Hi
It is really hard to teach without a course book. Anyway , try www.englishtips.org You can download tons of course books. Why don �t you try Side By Side ? I find it great. Good luck
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11 Mar 2010
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