13. Draw the words to represent their meaning. Example: LARGE small 14. Work out the meaning of the words ‘wound, injury, lungs, buried’ from the context and write their translation. Discuss your translations with each other and change as necessary. Now check your answers with your teacher or in a dictionary.
PRACTICAL LESSON # 6 The content of teaching grammar. How to teach grammar item.
Questions for discussion: Activity 1 ??? What is your idea of what grammar is?
Grammar is sometimes defined as “the way the words are put together to make correct sentences”
Another possible definition might be:
“Grammar is a set of rules that define how words (or pats of words) are combined or changed to form acceptable units of meaning within a language”.
??? What is a grammar structure?
“A specific instance of grammar is usually called a grammar structure”
??? Can you give examples of grammar structures?
# Noun plurals, the Past Simple, comparison of adjectives etc.
Grammar meaning Grammar does not only affect how units of the language are combined in order to “look right”; it also affects their meaning. The meaning of a grammatical structure may be difficult to teach. It is fairly simple to explain that the addition of a plural –s to the noun in English indicates that you are talking about more than one item. But how would you explain when to use the present perfect and when the past simple? In this case a very important question turns up: a question of grammatical terms.
Grammatical terms
Activity 2
Match the terms with their definitions. Put the terms in order beginning with the largest, finishing with the smallest one.
