Hard To Teach - Secondary English
Teacher Liana Swanton takes the fear out of grammar by breaking it down in a simple way that's fun for pupils.
Embedding subordinate clauses in sentences using a simple red and green card method gets students out of their seats and actively building sentences.
Comma practice involves displaying rules of commas around the classroom and getting pupils to write their own examples.
Meanwhile, Liana from Uplands Community Technology College in East Sussex, uses innovative cards to encourage her pupils to make sentences and conversations with more sophisticated connective words.
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Facebookgla2ia8or on 30 January 2010
I totally agree with Mrdriss. This won't work with crowded classes, especially if you have to teach more than 30 - 40 st ...
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- Duration: 15:00 minutes
- Published: 18 September 2006
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I totally agree with Mrdriss30 January 2010 - 13:22I totally agree with Mrdriss. This won't work with crowded classes, especially if you have to teach more than 30 - 40 students in a class which is absolutely frustrating. But the ones who teach less people in their classes should try these ideas out.
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english10 November 2009 - 12:46interesting lesson.however,i think this won't work with crowded classes.
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punctuation resources17 October 2009 - 17:08Excellent ideas, can't wait to try them out!
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Subordinate Clauses1 October 2009 - 17:07I'm a PGCE English student and I'm having trouble with teaching grammar. This video not only inspired some brilliant ideas but helped me remember subordinate clauses!
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Brilliant - my IGCSE class6 January 2009 - 18:01Brilliant - my IGCSE class will love this :)
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creative idea to apply29 September 2008 - 14:54It's very helpfull for me,from indonesia
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creative idea to apply29 September 2008 - 14:53It's very helpfull for me,from indonesia
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great Maedottir in Sweden13 August 2008 - 05:20great
Maedottir in Sweden
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punctuation demystified3 June 2008 - 10:51THANKYOU - a real godsend
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Excellent lesson plan16 May 2008 - 04:03I thought this lesson plan was excellent and most useful for all age levels; I especially appreciate the hands-on, interactive approach.
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Good Teaching23 November 2007 - 00:01Thank you for the spendid ideas. I feel that I will be able to adapt them for teaching non English Speaking students in Indonesia where English is a compulsory subject for National Examinations.
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English - Hard to teach - Secondary English28 September 2007 - 22:10What a great lesson; well-prepared and the teacher is really enthusiastic and capable. Congratulations!
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Very intersting and informative21 September 2007 - 15:34I thought this was an excellent grammar lesson. It would, as others have mentioned, been helpful to have included the punctuation exercise answer sheet.
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Very useful site... It would11 April 2007 - 19:53Very useful site.It would have been even better if you had attached the answer sheet to the Punctuation exercise.
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Hard to teach - secondary English27 March 2007 - 01:53Great way 0f teaching grammar and punctuation. I am sure children will enjoy this kind of learning style.
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This is a fantastic lesson,13 March 2007 - 18:25This is a fantastic lesson, the resources are fabulous, thank you!!!
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Hard to teach - Secondary English4 March 2007 - 22:25I am a non specialist delivering English to special needs children and I shall definitely try out Liana's ideas, just simplify them. An excellent video - many thanks!
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Embedding subordinate clauses23 February 2007 - 20:54YAL
Excellent resource. Very practical. Good for kinaesthetic learners.
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Watch this programme!18 February 2007 - 22:24Found this programme really helpful. Though it was aimed at secondary teachers, as a Year 6 teacher I know my class would enjoy and benefit from many of these activities. Congratulations for taking a potentially uninspiring subject and really bringing it to life!
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Special needs18 February 2007 - 12:15I can see how I may adapt some of these really good active learning ideas to my literacy support lessons.
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Great ideas for interactive17 February 2007 - 18:45Great ideas for interactive teaching of grammar and punctuation - I will definitely be using some of them myself.
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