Download or read book Get Going with Grammar written by Jennifer Meldrum and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Going with Grammar: Games for practising grammar Get Going with Grammar has been specially created to encourage students to practise specific grammar points through games. Teacher's Notes are provided for every game. There is a built-in adaptability component to these games: you can use the game provided or play one of the suggested variations. For many of the games, templates have been provided that allow the teacher to make his or her own version. Grammar points covered include: adverbs of frequency comparatives and superlatives conditionals countable and non-countable nouns gerunds and infinitives modals parts of speech passive voice phrases and clauses plurals possessives prepositions present perfect tense pronouns quantifiers suffixes tag questions verb tenses. Key features 25 photocopiable games to motivate and inspire students to improve specific grammar points Teacher's notes for each game, with suggested variations to the game Templates for teachers and students to create their own versions
Download or read book Jumpstart Grammar written by Pie Corbett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully updated to help teachers deal with the new 2016 Grammar Tests, this second edition presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities that will jumpstart pupils’ understanding of grammar in action It includes coverage of the subjunctive and past progressive, selecting which tense is the most definite, identifying when a word is used as a subordinating conjunction/preposition, explaining how a comma can change meaning, and an increased emphasis on the passive. Jumpstart! Grammar will prepare children for any grammar tests on the horizon in an engaging way so that they love playing with words and spinning sentences to make ideas dance. And, of course, they will be able to name the parts if that is what is required. Fun games will focus first on helping children hear the difference various types of grammar can make followed by activities to help them understand what different effects you can create with grammar. Technical terms will only be introduced once the children have established what the various features can do, with a particular focus on those terms that really help children discuss what makes language coherent and effective. This indispensable, practical book celebrates the joys of language and coherent expression; of finding just the right words or phrases to express what you want to say.
Download or read book Elementary Grammar Games written by Jill Hadfield and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 2001 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic selection of pairwork, small group and whole class games and activities to help your students develop understanding and fluency in a real, communicative way.
Download or read book Games for Vocabulary Practice written by Felicity O'Dell and published by CAMBRIDGE. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of more than 50 vocabulary games and activities for classroom use. A selection of more than 50 vocabulary games and activities for classroom use, based on 18 topic-based units. This book enables students to practise key vocabulary in an enjoyable way through a range of fun games and activities.
Download or read book Grammar Games for Teachers of Adult ESL written by Gisele White and published by . This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help students interact with and learn from each other through fun and engaging grammar activities and board games. Each chapter consists of game cards that focus on a specific grammar point or that can be combined from different chapters to create customized activities. Game cards can also be combined in a multitude of ways with the 7 board games in the back of the book. All board games come complete with game pieces, a paper die pattern, and 4-page photocopiable game boards that can be assembled with clear tape. Because the answers are included on every game card your students will be able to play the grammar activities and board games independently with minimal supervision.
Download or read book More Grammar Games written by Mario Rinvolucri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive, affective and drama activities for EFL students This resource book for teachers contains an exciting collection of activities which present and practise vital grammatical content in an original way. Each game is clearly introduced with a summary specifying the area of grammar to be practised, the level it is aimed at, the time required and the material needed. The activity is then presented using a step-by-step approach.
Download or read book Grammar Matters written by Lynne R. Dorfman and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a teacher of grades K-6, you might be asking, "Shoud I teach grammar in my class on a daily basis? How would I go about doing this? And how can I teach grammar so it isn't boring to my kids?" In Grammar Matters, Lynne Dofman and Diane Dougherty answer these questions and more. Using mentor texts as the cornerstone for how best to teach grammar, this book provides teachers with almost everything they need to get kids not only engaged but excited about learning grammar. Divided into four parts--Narrative Writing, Informational Writing, Opinion Writing, and Grammar Conversations--this hand reference provides practical teaching tips, assessment ideas, grammar definitions, and specific mentor texts to help students learn about parts of speech, idoms, usage issues, and punctuation. Through "Your Turn Lessons," conversations, conferences, and drafting, revising, and editing exercies, students will learn not only specific concepts but also how to reflect upon and transfer what they have learned to other writing tasks, no matter the subject. The "Treasure Chest of Children's Books" provides an extensive list of both fiction and nonfiction books that fit naturally into grammar instruction. Eight appendices provide even more resources, including information on homophones, using mentor texts to teach grammar and conventions, checklists, comma rules, help for ELL students, and a glossary of ramar terms. Grammar Matters links instruction to the Common Core State Standards and features quality, classroom-tested tools that help teachers provide their students with the gifts of grammar and literacy.
Download or read book Fun With Grammar written by Laura Sunley and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 75 quick activities & games that help kids learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs & more! 75 fun and easy games and activities will make your grammar lessons lively and memorable.
Download or read book ESL Classroom Activities for Teens and Adults written by Shelley Ann Vernon and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fluency activities and grammar drills, EFL and ESL students. 175 ideas to make learning English fun and effective, Engage and motivate your students, games and quizzes for all levels. --Cover.
Download or read book Fun with Grammar written by Suzanne W. Woodward and published by Pearson Education ESL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teacher resource book is filled with more than 200 communicative, interactive, task-based grammar games that help make learning grammar fun. All of these grammar activity ideas are keyed to the Azar English Grammar Series, by Betty Schrampfer Azar, and include complete step-by-step instructions for the activities to add a fun new learning dimension to the classroom. --From publisher's description.
Download or read book Silly Sentences written by Anonyme, and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2000-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your child will spend hours of fun composing silly sentences and you can rest assured that they are learning while they play. It is possible to create an almost endless variation of sentences with the fun puzzle pieces and colour-coded cards. Encourage your child's early learning and curiosity while they giggle with glee at the silly sentences they have made!
Download or read book Rules of the Game written by Educators Publishing Service, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons on topics such as sentence fragments or parts of speech begin with several examples, and follow them with directed questions that help students arrive at a grammatical principle or rule. Following the questions and a brief discussion, each lesson has a definition, set in a box for emphasis. Lessons also contain boxed hints that aid students in understanding and retaining points of grammar. Exercises are both traditional and innovative, and provide practice as well as increase general knowledge. Students read sentences and pick out various points of grammar, but they also follow sentence patterns, write their own sentences, choose effective modifiers, or combine sentences. In all books, lessons build on each other: the lesson on compound sentences, for example, appears not long after students have learned what constitutes a sentence and right after they have been introduced to the conjunction. Each book also contains a Comprehensive Exercises section that provides review exercises and includes errors for students to correct. Book 3 includes work on dependent clauses, complex and compound-complex sentences, gerunds, participles, and infinitives. Grades 9-10.
Download or read book The World of Games Technologies for Experimenting Thinking Learning written by Daria Bylieva and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the various dimensions of play. It gathers together experience with role-play, tabletop, and online games and develops and assesses tools. It also reflects the human condition in this world of games as it becomes a digital world. We are living in a World of Games where every game is a world through which we learn about the world. A World of Games is fun and engaging, but it also provides deceptive pleasures. What may seem like fun is far from harmless. And then there are the many ways of learning in the mode of play.
Download or read book Activities Games Assessment Strategies and Rubrics For The Foreign Language Classroom written by Amy Buttner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides easy-to-use resources to help you write fun lesson plans. With over 100 activities and games, this book also includes rubrics, spreadsheets, materials lists, and templates.
Download or read book Games Prisoners Play written by Marek M. Kaminski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw University student who also ran an underground press for Solidarity. The police discovered illegal books in the vehicle, and in a matter of hours five secret police escorted Kaminski to jail. A sociology and mathematics major one day, Kaminski was the next a political prisoner trying to adjust to a bizarre and dangerous new world. This remarkable book represents his attempts to understand that world. As a coping strategy until he won his freedom half a year later by faking serious illness, Kaminski took clandestine notes on prison subculture. Much later, he discovered the key to unlocking that culture--game theory. Prison first appeared an irrational world of unpredictable violence and arbitrary codes of conduct. But as Kaminski shows in riveting detail, prisoners, to survive and prosper, have to master strategic decision-making. A clever move can shorten a sentence; a bad decision can lead to rape, beating, or social isolation. Much of the confusion in interpreting prison behavior, he argues, arises from a failure to understand that inmates are driven not by pathological emotion but by predictable and rational calculations. Kaminski presents unsparing accounts of initiation rituals, secret codes, caste structures, prison sex, self-injuries, and of the humor that makes this brutal world more bearable. This is a work of unusual power, originality, and eloquence, with implications for understanding human behavior far beyond the walls of one Polish prison.
Download or read book Grammar Games written by Mario Rinvolucri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains material for a wide variety of games.
Download or read book Teaching Grammar to a Grammar Free Generation written by Tamilla Mammadova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique book that covers innovative grammar teaching approaches and techniques for a modern generation of EFL/ESL students. It juxtaposes traditional grammar teaching methods with newer ones, and reveals the advantages and disadvantages of each. Moreover, it provides free and controlled grammar activities which offer instructors an ample variety of tasks that facilitate EFL/ESL teachers’ work to practice certain grammatical patterns.
