UNIT 1: GRAMMAR

This unit is fundamentally about grammar, which is a really important part at the time of learning a language as it helps learners to combine, to organize, and to change parts of words to make meaning. Grammar is used unconsciously when speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Talking about grammatical terms presented in speech or writing we found: parts of speech, grammatical structures, affixation, and cores of words. The context is another key point. By it learners are going to notice meaning. Furthermore, grammar rules describe written language and the ways in which the language works.

Knowledge will be applied by using catching activities like games.  These are useful tools in which students can practice affixation for example. By writing on the board some base forms, and giving students some prefixes and suffixes in different colors, learners will create new words inductively. According to Thornbury (1999), an inductive approach (rule-discovery) starts with some examples from which a rule is inferred. In other words the inductive teaching approach is a kind of learning by discovering, indeed it has as the main point the focusness on the student.  

Sources:

-          Spratt M., Pulverness A. & Willians M. (2011). The TKT course.Modules 1,2,3. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press

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-          Thornbury, S., (1999). How to Teach Grammar. Pearson

Grammar Games. (2012). Grammar Games 1. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kB-OiIePGk