Interesting information contained in all, but I still feel unsure of the tenses. I think I’ll need to drill myself and even then… well lets just say that I’ll have to overly prepare the lesson to avoid any mistakes on my part.
Despite comprehension being my best subject (as I remember) in primary school I’m doing terribly at it at the moment. My terrible spelling doesn’t help, however I’m getting better at pre-checking my answers before hitting submit.
I loved the introduction of games and can see myself using Memory as a teaching tool. I even found a great CD set focusing on nouns on eBay! I’m starting to look around for some teaching resources to take with me in case the school does not have them, as well as stamps and stickers for my students.
I also love the idea of presenting students with a paragraph/poem/song and getting them to underline the verbs; adjectives; nouns etc…
I’m getting the feeling though, that if I want to avoid teaching tenses, I should make my requests for students under 10. That way I can stick with simple tenses and not get myself in trouble.
I’ve just finished Module 6 and decided that the phonetic alphabet should be burned. I’m firmly on the side of not teaching it.
Took me three goes and much screaming. I still know I got Q25 right despite the fact I got it wrong. >_<
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I think I personally would teach the phonetic alphabet in one-on-one situations with an adult student who speaks a language with a very different set of sounds than English (for example, Korean or Japanese). All my students get soooo confused with vowel sounds, and it would be really nice to get them sorted out from pretty near the beginning.
here here here!! to that. seriously who has time to teach the phonetic alphabet and what not with all the other things going on I feel it would be another thing that would be an aside form the points at hand. great blog :) and you arent alone with the grammar frustrations believe me there!!. Holy hell I just tried to finish the grammar module the seperate one. And it only has 5 questions at the end and my third (final) attempt is still pending a mark. I think I will throw myself under a bus if I fail... well I am being dramatic buy you know what I mean. best of luck!!!!
I looked ahead in the book for the highest of my classes today and realised that I just don't know enough about future tenses. I'd better brush up in the next 2 weeks :S She's older than 10 though, and the only one I've been doing perfect tenses with.
Noooo - destroy my dreams! Conversational English anyone?
The children under 10 rule doesn't always work! My kids last year were 6 years old, and they knew all the tenses, although I'm not sure they knew the names. We definitely did continuous tenses a lot.
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