Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Teaching English Grammar with fun

Hello
In this discussions, we are going to delve into fun and interesting way to teach the Parts of Speech.

But,
Grammar should be fun and interesting.
Teachers should not stress themselves telling children grammatically rules and functions. We can do easily through games.
Children love games.

Here are the simple ways to teach the Parts of Speech in English.

Teaching Nouns.
To teach nouns, teachers can use the I Spy Game.
For example, the teacher say something like
1. I Spy something in the class which tells time - (Clock)
2. I Spy something in the classroom which is used for writing - (Chalkboard/Blackboard)
3. I Spy something white used to write in the classroom - (Chalk).
4. I Spy something in the classroom used to make the classroom clean - (Broom). Etc. You can do this for all the items in the classroom. This will help learners to discover that all the items in the classroom are bound.

Also, you can use I'm Thinking of Someone Game. This game is appropriate for teaching Proper Nouns. You can use it to describe the learners or people outside the classroom.
For example,
1. I'm Thinking of Someone Who wears black shoes, white socks,  brown belts, etc Who Am I Thinking of .....(Let children come out with the name).
2. I'm Thinking of Someone Who composed the song  Mahama Paper ......( Shatta Wale). Etc.

Continue with simple to complex description of persons for them to come out with.

Teaching Verbs.
For verbs the Facilitator could use Charades.  In this game, the Facilitator calls out a Volunteer and shows the verb on a whiteboard (Only the Volunteer sees the verb). The Volunteer then act out the verb whiles the rest of the class mentions the Verb.

You can use interesting verbs to begin. For example you can ask the child to mix gari with sugar, walk out of the classroom, etc.

Teaching Adjectives.
In this game we use Clues.
Learners sit in a circle. A Volunteer sits in the middle of the circle. The Volunteer picks a thing at random from a box containing several items. The Volunteer describes the item in two different ways. The Facilitator may time the Volunteer to make it interesting. For example, let say the Volunteer picks a pencil.
Then we may hear something like ....
1. The pencil is short.
2. The black pencil. Etc.

Teaching Conjunctions.
To teach Conjunctions we would use the FANBOYS Game. In this game every child is expected to use a letter from the FANBOYS as a Conjunctions in a sentence.
This can be played by dividing the class into two groups. Each group is to present 7 participants.  Each participants is expected to use any of the letters of the FANBOYS as a Conjunctions to form complete sentence or just calls out a Conjunctions which begins with any of the letters of the word FANBOYS.
For example a Child can write : *Do you want milk or water?* And gets a point. The group which has form more sentences or spell more Conjunctions wins the game.

Teaching Interjections
*What would you Say if ......Scenarios.* is the name of the game. In this game the Facilitator describes various scenarios and ask learners to say what they would say.
For example, Teacher give a scenarios when a child comes directly in contact with a snake. Then teacher ask the question: *What would you Say*
Some answers may be Jesus! God! Etc.

Teaching Pronouns
The name of the game to use here is Replace Noun Games.
In this game the teacher divides the class into two. Each group is given a passage which contains, several repeated nouns. The group is expected to replace the repeated nouns with the appropriate words or Pronouns.
The group that gets all or most of the words correct is declared the winner.

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