Teach Any English Grammar Point In 10 Minutes

Teaching English grammar can be one of the hardest and most stressful parts of the lesson for English teachers. Many teachers are so afraid of teaching grammar that they ignore it completely. In reality, teaching grammar is not only easy to do, but also a lot of fun. You just need the right technique.
This video is all about the grammar presentation. Specifically, what you do for the 10 minutes when you're up in front of your ESL students teaching your language point.
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In the video, we cover all of the steps and stages of the grammar presentation, along with a lot of useful tips and techniques to get it right. To teach grammar effectively, you want to throw away all of your extra language and really focus on eliciting and CCQing (Concept Check Questions) to move the entire presentation.
To teach grammar well, here are the best practices. It all starts with some solid examples of your grammar point. From there...
1. Get the terminology
2. Elicit the function
3. Move onto the structure
4. Elicit more examples, including negative and question forms
5. CCQ everything!
NOTES
2nd conditional sentence was written incorrectly. It should read 'If I had... "
#teachingenglish #teachinggrammar #grammar
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00:00 intro
00:48 the language house
01:42 5 important tips
03:40 start with examples
04:50 elicit terminology
05:29 elicit function
07:08 elicit structure
08:24 elicit examples
08:59 ccq everything
10:29 recap
10:54 another full demo
12:19 recap of demo
12:45 final thoughts

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These videos are great refreshers for me, I used to do all of that all the time, but recently my techniques have started to rot out by my routine, and this is helping me get them back, especially because I produce my own material to my students, and sometimes I forget to use some of these spices.

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[@TheParakeet1999]

Hello! Thanks for the video. I have one question and hopefully you can answer. Can we use this for a grammar lesson using the inductive approach?

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[@multilevelenglish]

Great stuff... Did you deliberately leave out the "If" in the 2nd conditional to elicit a comment!? 😁

[@ginsan8198]

Having students the ones to make examples using other forms (such as the negative form or the question form) of the same grammar is such a good idea! I need to try this in my next lesson. Thank you! P.S. I think for me, what works best in the beginning is to introduce contexts to students first, then function, and finally structure. This could be done by showing them a video or some pictures, then ask them some lead-in questions about the contents of the video or the pictures. For example, if the grammar is about present perfect tense, I’d probably show them a story about two or more people with different experiences in certain situations. For instance, John and Kevin go to the same school, and on that day they have to hand over their homework. However, only John did his homework. They would have a dialogue that contains the grammar. Maybe Kevin would panic and said “Oh no! I haven’t finished my homework yet! Have you finished it, John?” John would reply “I have. Even Carl has done it, and he’s always the lazy one. Why haven’t you?” Kevin said “I didn’t know we had to hand it over today!” From that example, we already cover almost all of the forms/structures of the grammar point we need to teach. Then what we need to do next is to lead them students to notice them, by giving some lead-in questions, CCQ, and highlight the keywords on the board.

[@annaeferina3796]

but how would you make all your students listen to this dialog abt makung homework? its point for you but not for them as they don't get what and why you're up to.

[@ginsan8198]

@@annaeferina3796 It is just an example. Making students focused is an entirely separate technique.

[@annaeferina3796]

@ginsan8198 as to me, they work at the same time and stick to e-o

[@ginsan8198]

@@annaeferina3796 Yes. I am merely giving an example of contextualizing the lesson, or making the lesson contained within a certain theme or tooic in real life situations. In the example above, the theme/topic is "homework". As for the grammar (which is present perfect tense), that is the language focus of the lesson. So we teach the grammar within the framework of that theme/topic. Of course there could be flexibility or modifications along the way. For example, depending on the characteristics of the students, the topic/theme could be changed. However, the idea remains the same, which is to ground the lesson to reality as much as possible. As for making students focused on the lesson, we could do multiple techniques. Our voice, body language, seating arrangement, randomizing students to answer a question, etc, those are the techniques we can use to make students focused. Making students pay attention has to do more with our delivery in the classroom.

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Would you please share effective teaching techniques for EFL classes of 30 pupils

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[@joaoandre7488]

Hi Chris. When we are teaching grammar to beginners should we use Present perfect and conditionals? I am bit confused. Thank you for your lesson very educational and helpful.

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A1 students generally should start work non perfect tenses and conditionals are too advanced for them - especially low A1 students

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I have a question.Can you show how to teach grammar using the OHE framework? I should be grateful.

[@garyfrancis6193]

12:00 In the Second Conditional you verbs are in Past Subjunctive nit Simple Past.

[@TheLanguageHouseTEFL]

The British Council has it as the past simple. I’d write to them and get this cleared up. Speaking of mistakes… 1. *your verbs 2. *not Simple Past It’s very easy to be critical if someone wants to be. In one sentence, you’ve made more errors than in my 10-minute video. Creating value is harder to do. If you check out the description of the video, I mention the typo with the conditional examples :) Anyway, thanks for watching 👍

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[@dashwhasher]

When I was a student I absolutely hated when teachers teased with answers like this :(

[@TheLanguageHouseTEFL]

Generally the concept here is that you want to put students through a guided discovery and by students figuring out the answers on their own, they tend to understand the material better. However, to each their own. There isn’t one way of doing anything correctly. People are different :)

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Yes, I was thinking the same thing. I’m just realizing that seems to be an actual technique that’s encouraged in pedagogy. Wild. I always thought it was just bad teaching. I see reading about it that the principal is good, but teachers tend to go wayy overboard board, like with the lagging speech. Savvy questions promt and elicit answers, not selective speech impediments.

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[@TheLanguageHouseTEFL]

You’re welcome!

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Chris, I'm guessing grammar is a fair way down the track especially if you're teaching a class of brand new beginners. I have the option of having a translator with me for my lessons. Do you think this would be an advantage or a disadvantage?

[@salhiayoub]

Thank you sir!, do u present grammar lessons in PPP framework ?

[@TheLanguageHouseTEFL]

Basically yes, but there are lot of variations to make it work

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Would this approach work in a primary school setting?

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Thank you, do you have any books that you can recommend to teach the students

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Liked just for the intro xD

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Do you have any lesson plans samples for teaching grammar, please?

[@TheLanguageHouseTEFL]

I have an old blog called ‘tefl Prague and abroad’ - search for that and I’ll you’ll find a bunch of old lesson plans that I drafted up.

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How to create Eng module for teaching primary and secondary level?

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I gotta a question Mr I've heard that is important when we write on the board we should keep looking at Ss and not giving them our back but that is hard

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[@TheLanguageHouseTEFL]

Thanks

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Please show how Tenses can be taught to class 5

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The person that was running away from teaching grammar in the video was me 😊

[@marijkepeereboom6442]

Great video! However, your second example read: " I had a million dollars...."". Shouldn't there have been an "If" at the start? 🤔

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Good catch! You are correct!

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As long as you are fluent in English, you can.

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