In teaching, you'll have to use tools that shall catch your students' attention. You have to make sure that the discussion can somehow catch up with the trend.
Traditionally, teaching is enclosed in the four corners of the classroom. Teaching was only through blackboards and books. But today, if you still do that, it would be a miracle if all of your students stayed awake until the end of your class! Here are some tools which you may use in teaching grammar face to face with your students:
- OFFLINE TOOLS: PowerPoint (in makng ppts, you can visit Showeet.com for more cool and creative templates)
Here's an example of a PPT on Noun Types. Teachers can use this in discussing the said topic while making sure that every student of them will be engaged! Assessment in this presentation isn't also in traditional form. It is made in a way that every student will have to participate. Download it for free!
TEACHING GRAMMAR_f2f.pptx
ACTIVITY FOR GRAMMAR.pptm
Teaching Grammar: Blended Learning
In this level, the learning is made through the use of technology and the teacher. The teacher uses the forms of technology as a tool in teaching grammar. For the learning environment to be more engaging at the same time more learning is achieved.
As an example here is a game made in Kahoot.com that discusses the different types of grammar. Let your students play while learning! And with the help of the teacher's explanation in each quiz for sure you'll learn a lot! What else are you looking for? FUN.PLAY.LEARN.TEACH !
In this level, learners are now ready to learn English on their own! Let them play and enjoy learning without the pressure of the teacher or anybody. Let them discover the beauty of language through online. Here are the websites you can provide for your learners:
The EnglishClub.com provides a lot of opportunities for you to learn English. It features English aspect like grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
The Sentence-level Grammar
The Word-level Grammar
Extra: Assistive Online Grammar Tool
The 3 samplers above are very useful grammar tools where students can really acquire learning on their own. But on this extra grammar tool, we will be helping students get a helping hand in checking their grammar output.
LanguageTool is a site that helps people in proofreading their own output. It knows more than 20 languages and it is very easy to use.
By simply pasting your text on the check box, you will immediately see errors and be able to correct them.
The site is also an opportunity for a never-ending process of language development. There are tabs such as Forum and Development wherein users can contribute what they think can be improved in the site, particularly on what they can consider right or wrong in terms of grammar.