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Grammar Games for Verbs in Simple Past

TESLMalaysia Admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:01:38 +0000

This is one of the activities taken from the book “Games for Grammar Practice: A Resource Book of Grammar Games and Interactive Activities”. It’s a good activity for students to practise wide range of verbs in the simple past and habitual past with used to. It also helps to enhance student’s speaking and listening skills since conversations are needed to play the game.

This lesson is free to be downloaded and photocopied as long as it is not used for commercial purposes. Of course, feel free to generate more activities from this lesson idea.

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Grammarly: A tool to Check Grammar Errors

TESLMalaysia Admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:48:28 +0000

Though it would be almost impossible for a machine to check your English grammar for 100% accuracy, sometimes a little bit of help and advice would be very beneficial. Now, Grammarly is just what you need. Grammarly is a free Microsoft Office 2010 add-in which assists in identifying spelling and grammatical inaccuracies to ensure your documents are edited and proofread before they are read by your readers.

Download via the link here, Grammarly, a useful proofreading and grammar checking tool that uses powerful grammar checking technology to trace and find mistakes in users’ writing and gives direct to the point explanations and suggestion to improve it. Once it is installed, users will notice there is an additional Grammarly tab added in the menu bar.

To check and analyze grammar mistakes, users just need to click on the “Check Grammar” button and the checker will do the checking and analyzing online instantly. It will give users a comprehensive report on their grammar as well as problems in spelling, plagiarism, vocabulary, etc. This grammar checking tool’s report is quite comprehensive and detailed. However, it doesn’t correct or rectify your mistakes. Users need to subscribe and pay to get the grammar checking tool to correct errors for you. Grammarly is compatible with MS Office 2003, 2007 and 2010.

For more info: http://www.grammarly.com/

Lesson Plan: Teaching Prepositions – Going Places

TESLMalaysia Admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:31:37 +0000

A lesson plan on prepositions for intermediate Form 4 students. Focusing on reading, using games such as “Guess Me If You Can” and “Find me if you can”. The topic is Going Places.

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Jennifer’s ESL: Phrasal Verbs and Compound Words

TESLMalaysia Admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:39:02 +0000

Jennifer from Pittsburgh has produced a magnificent channel on YouTube featuring useful video clips that can be used to explain complex concepts of English grammar. You can use the video as your teaching aid or get some inspiration on how to teach your students.

Here is an example of what she offers on YouTube:

Do subscribe to her channel on YouTube for more updates: http://www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL

Grammar Revision – with Answer Keys

TESLMalaysia Admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:59:55 +0000

A zipped pack of 13 grammar tests for Primary and Lower Secondary students with answer keys. This would come in handy for teachers who don’t want to crack their heads thinking of grammar exercises.

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Grammar Games for Practice

TESLMalaysia Admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:51:20 +0000

This is a nice 19-page excerpt of the book by Maria Lucia on how to practice Grammar through games and interactive activities. You can use it as drills or incorporate it in your English language lessons. You may also modify the activities to make it more localised.

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