ENGLISH GRAMMAR

English Grammar

English Grammar

Question 1

How would you teach the form ''going to + verb'' used for future plans to a pre-intermediate class?

Going to +verb

A list of "going to____________" 1-10 or what you feel is appropriate.

Explain verb and verb tense agreement

Examples from your reading material if you have them.

You may want to use examples from stories they are familiar with.

Put a couple of example on the screen and get some discussion going

As you go along lengthen the sentences and explain what you are doing, also ID new parts of speech.

Going to write a story.

Going to sing a song.

Going to ring a bell.

These are to be adjusted to age or grade level, pre-intermediate sounds young to me.

Question 2:

Teaching The Phonemes

Phoneme awareness is the ability to identify phonemes, the vocal gestures from which words are constructed, when they are found in their natural context--spoken words. Children need phoneme awareness to learn to read because letters represent phonemes in words. A phoneme is the meaning of a letter or digraph, the "mouth move" signaled by the letter. The spelling of a word--its letter sequence--is a map of the pronunciation--its phoneme sequence. To learn to read words, we have to understand this mapping. Thus, learning to read begins by "making friends with phonemes"--becoming comfortable and familiar with them. Informally, children develop this familiarity in conversations about books read aloud, especially alphabet books and books of nursery rhymes. Guiding and encouraging children's attempts to invent spelling also helps children make friends with phonemes.

Children can also be taught to make friends with phonemes in explicit lessons. When we examine research-based programs for teaching phoneme identities, we find three features in effective programs:

a) A focus on a basic set of individual phonemes, one at a time.

b) Activities designed to make each phoneme memorable.

c) Practice finding each phoneme in spoken words.

Research demonstrates that getting familiar with phonemes helps children make breakthroughs in learning to decode.

Focus on individual phonemes. Children need to get a feel for each phoneme they will use in reading and spelling. Just as we do not expect children to learn to recognize all the letters at once, neither should we expect children to learn all the phonemes at once. Instead, we spend time with each phoneme they will need to read and spell words. Where to start? Continuants phonemes such as /f/, /m/, and /s/ are easy to stretch and ...