We need to have some grammatical knowledge to be able to speak a language to some degree of proficiency and to be able to say what we really want to say. Without grammar, words hang together without any real meaning or sense. By teaching grammar, we enable students...
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28/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Grammar
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As a teacher, you always use questions in the classroom. There are lots of reasons for using them. You could use questions to: engage your students, check for understanding and comprehension, seek opinions, encourage creative and critical thinking, review information, help students see other ways of thinking. The techniques...
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26/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Testing and Assessment
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As a teacher, you’ll have to correct your students when they make errors and mistakes. Correction is really important and can’t be ignored. A teacher who fails to do so may be thought of as unprofessional or lazy. Error correction is a matter of balance. Students need help...
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24/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Correcting Mistakes
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There is a variety of techniques for presenting new grammar items. Below is an overview of nine of those most commonly used. Note that no one technique will necessarily prove better than another, so the general rule when it comes to presenting grammatical rules is to combine a...
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21/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Grammar
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It is as important to end an EFL lesson effectively as you start it. Your main aim is that your students leave the classroom with a good feeling about themselves and their learning. They should end their EFL lessons with a sense of achievement and the knowledge that...
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19/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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A warmer is a motivating starting activity better called: zealous, suggestive, dynamic and enthusiastic. It is an activity done at the beginning of the lesson to activate students to become animated in the language class. It is considered a tool designed to attract students’ attention. Advantages of warmers....
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17/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lesson Planning
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Children who can’t read are missing one of the following important auditory skills: They can’t rhyme sounds in words. They can’t put sounds (word parts) together to make words. That’s because they don’t have the skill of sounding out new words. They don’t know the short vowel sounds...
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13/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Reading
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In order to be able to read, every child must be taught the sounds of the alphabet letters. They must be able to recall the sounds quickly. They must see the letter and say the sound without hesitation. Following are some practical tips to teach alphabet sounds and...
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09/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Reading
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Songs are a useful tool in language acquisition. Language teachers can use them to open or close their lessons, to introduce topics or themes, to add variety or change the pace, to present new vocabulary or recycle known language structures. Simple, repetitive songs often contain a recurrent grammatical...
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06/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Teach Listening Activities
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ECRIF stands for five phases of students’ learning: Encounter, Clarify, Remember, Internalize and Fluency. ECRIF is a framework for understanding learning, looking at how people learn rather than prescribing what teachers should or should not do. ECRIF framework focuses on the learning process that students go through as they...
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01/03/2019 Mohamed Ramadan
Lanaguage Teaching Approaches, Lesson Planning, Professional Development
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