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I am a full time freelance English as a Second language teacher in Cardiff. Private one to one tuition for students whose first language is not English is HARD. Every student is different and considering my students ages range from 6 to late 40s, it's hard to know who likes what etc.
Its been a particularly challenging learning curve because my mind has been so distracted with Ramazan and his loss.
I have recently been overhauling my teaching approaches and trying to become much more streamlined when it comes to lesson plans etc.
I teach a lot using my Mac, and by that I mean using it as a writing and reading tool, part of me thinks this works and part of me doesn't. I don't need to stand up in front of a class so notes don't seem to make much sense, as I think I look ill-prepared but then using a mac makes it look like I can't be bothered to print...
Anyway, I taught a great past simple lesson last week and wanted to share it.
So I started by writing the past tense in Turkish in the board (they are Turkish) so that they understood that today was about the past...how ironic.
Next I wrote the 4 endings they need to learn:
1) talk + ed = talked
2) smile + ed = smiled
3) cry - y + ed = cried
4) hop + per = hopped
Then I went on to explain the above,
If a verb ends in an e, just add d
If a verb ends in a consonant and a y, take off y and add ied
If a verb ends in a vowel and consonant , the consonant is usually doubled and add ed
If a verb ends in a vowel and a y, add ed
Next we used flash cards, where I held up a verb in its infinitive form and asked them which one 1-4 we used to convert it to the past. I had such a good experience with them.
I currently have regular and irregular verb flash cards, but I feel like using them ALL the time
We then practised converting the infinitive into the past simple and making examples using verbs that they came up!
This is as far as we got as we like to chat and discuss things, and grammar is tough for these guys so I didn't want to overwhelm them. Am hoping to look at irregular verbs but need some ideas to help with using them in the past :/
Any suggestions?
x
I am a full time freelance English as a Second language teacher in Cardiff. Private one to one tuition for students whose first language is not English is HARD. Every student is different and considering my students ages range from 6 to late 40s, it's hard to know who likes what etc.
Its been a particularly challenging learning curve because my mind has been so distracted with Ramazan and his loss.
I have recently been overhauling my teaching approaches and trying to become much more streamlined when it comes to lesson plans etc.
I teach a lot using my Mac, and by that I mean using it as a writing and reading tool, part of me thinks this works and part of me doesn't. I don't need to stand up in front of a class so notes don't seem to make much sense, as I think I look ill-prepared but then using a mac makes it look like I can't be bothered to print...
Anyway, I taught a great past simple lesson last week and wanted to share it.
So I started by writing the past tense in Turkish in the board (they are Turkish) so that they understood that today was about the past...how ironic.
Next I wrote the 4 endings they need to learn:
1) talk + ed = talked
2) smile + ed = smiled
3) cry - y + ed = cried
4) hop + per = hopped
Then I went on to explain the above,
If a verb ends in an e, just add d
If a verb ends in a consonant and a y, take off y and add ied
If a verb ends in a vowel and consonant , the consonant is usually doubled and add ed
If a verb ends in a vowel and a y, add ed
Next we used flash cards, where I held up a verb in its infinitive form and asked them which one 1-4 we used to convert it to the past. I had such a good experience with them.
I currently have regular and irregular verb flash cards, but I feel like using them ALL the time
We then practised converting the infinitive into the past simple and making examples using verbs that they came up!
This is as far as we got as we like to chat and discuss things, and grammar is tough for these guys so I didn't want to overwhelm them. Am hoping to look at irregular verbs but need some ideas to help with using them in the past :/
Any suggestions?
x
