I am not sure that how much do they understand my grammar lesson.
I am planning noun game for my actual class.
It is really challenge to give them grammar game.
Grammar is the most difficult part of TLC teaching for kids.
I would like to tell them that English study is very fun without too much stress which I am really planning on my paper. I normally teach them using the grammar book. I have tried to give them different books or activities, however my students are still having difficulty to understand it.
I teach them 100% English, there is no Korean policy at the class.
I am trying to give them different concept of the lesson which is a game. (PPTA game)
This is my PPTA(people, places, things, and animals) game strategies,
First, I prepare a board which has only 4 units. Top left and right side units are for people and places.
The bottom left and right side units are for things and animals.
Second, I will teach them PPTA vocabularies using pictures. I also ask them the first letter of phonic sound.
T: Does anyone answer what this is?
S1: cat
T: What's C sound S1?
S: k
T: Where does a cat go on the board?
S: animal
T: Good! That's right S1.
Third, I prepare a big die which is very funny because it has only 4 numbers, other 2sides are zero.
and explain them #1 means people, #2 means places, #3 means things, and #4 means animals.
When S1 get #1, S1 has to pick people from the pictures and also stick on the right unit of the board. This is one play.
Everyone has chances more than one, we will discuss about the pictures on the board. Who will discuss about the pictures on the board who or which team get the right nouns for each units.
After class discussion, I will teach them how to use nouns as an object in sentences. I know these sentences really puzzle for them.
S1: I have a/an( ).
S2: I like ( ), ( ), and ( ).
S3: I would like to go to ( ).
S4: I visited ( ).
S5: My favorite animals are ( ), ( ), and ( )
Some kids know lots of vocabularies, but they don't know the structures of the sentence. They really don't know how to put them together.
Our SLA class talked about the theory of behaviourism, it is really true. Kids don't understand why objects go the end of the sentence, because objects are usually the front of the sentences in Korean.
It is really hard to explain them, they already started to apply L1 rules to L2.
I hope that my students really enjoy PPTA game, let's see how do they like this lesson.
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