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Ahmad Khairulhaziq Zulkifli

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PRONOUNS

PRONOUN

Feeling happy torturing your students with grammar? Torture them some more!

I found this easy crossword puzzles of pronouns that your students can do in class either on their own or within groups or pairs (if the puzzle is too easy, better work individually).

Or you can have fun with them and have them compete with each other. Whoever is able to complete the most crossword puzzle wins!

NOTE:

There are more crossword puzzles regarding other parts of English at:

http://iteslj.org/cw/

BIG WHEEL V2.

BIG WHEEL

Here's something I found in the web while I was surfing. Basically its a power point document of a 'Wheel of Fortune' wheel with points on the wheel. It also contains a score board.

Big Wheel Version 2

SUGGESTION

Actually there are many activities that you can have using this wheel as it invokes students' competitiveness. Just to remind, activities are better done in groups so you can handle the class much easier.

When using Big Wheel, I suggest you play a game of 20 questions with your students. Prepare a list of nouns (names of cartoon character, places or animals). Reveal the category the noun falls under and have students ask in turns inquiring what the noun is (using only yes/no questions).

Note:

For more power point

games, visit: http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/msgames.htm

SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE

SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE

This is an activity that you could use to test your students listening skills or creativity in writing. More suitable for a two period lesson, students will be required to work with partners (individual work is acceptable too). Though extra attention might be given in your equipments.

STEPS

1. Provide your students with lyrics of the song by Jack Johnson - 3R's and have them listen to the song or show them a music video of the song (recommended as it may assist in comprehension of the song's meaning). [Lyrics is available at http://www.metrolyrics.com/3-rs-lyrics-jack-johnson.html]

2. Once the viewing is done, discuss with your students what the song was about. You may also discuss about the current situation regarding recycling or about the pictures in the music montage. [i.e. statistic of rubbish waste, effects of not recycling and etc.]

3. Discuss the points (reduce, reuse, recycle) as sung by Jack Johnson in the song; how did he reduce, reuse and recycle. Ask students if they know any other way they can reduce, reuse and recycle at home and have them write it down in their exercise books.

4. Brief your students that they are about to write an letter of oath or a plan on how they can reduce, reuse and recycle. Briefing should also include telling them that they are going to use simple present tense only.

5. Introduce to your students sentences in simple future tense with the focus on the tenses. Explain to your students about the auxiliary verb 'will' and it's usage.

6. To demonstrate what they are going to do, you should start the activity by writing a letter of oath.

7. Give your students some time to write their oath in their exercise books. It is also recommended that this activity is done through the usage of e-mails as they can learn on how to use the technology.

8. Once they are done, grab a few students to recite their oath.

EXTRA

> The activity can be done through e-mail. Have students write their notes and poems in Word document and send them to the teachers e-mail when they are done. Teachers can project the letter on screen for the whole class to see and correct errors if available. (Bare in mind to do this you will need to prepare for your students and yourself).

SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT

SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT

Here's another activity that I've done in school for a single period lesson. This is an interesting yet quite challenging activity for some of your students. At the same time you are doing this, you can check your students' listening skills.

STEPS

1. Prepare a music video or a song (preferably a music video) before class and play it to you students first before you start your lesson. this would get them interested and relaxed for your lesson. [For this activity I used the music video of the song 'Trouble is a Friend' by Lenka (video and worksheet is available on the side)]

2. After the first play, maybe you should as students if they heard the song, if they have, you may want to use another song for the activity (if necessary). Provide students with the worksheets containing the lyrics of the songs with the verbs taken out.

3. Tell students to be listen to the song again and this time they are required to fill in the blanks with the correct form of verb as sung by the singer.

4. Play the song again, twice if necessary (thrice if you are desperate).

5. Once your students are done, it is time to start checking the answers.

6. Discuss the answers. You might want to focus the discussion on the presence of the 'personal singular -s' on certain verbs and how to use it.

7. As a follow-up activity, students are to write what they can understand about the song in 10 points with one sentence for each point (poiny form). The aim is to see their understanding of subject verb agreement in their sentence construction.

EXTRA

> Music videos can provide a little bit more challage to students as they may steer students focus away from the lyrics.

> The same activity can be done with a recitation of poems or using synopsis of thier novel or shortstodies (intergrating literature into the lesson).

ADJECTIVE ACTIVITY

ADJECTIVES

This is a simple yet exciting activity that you can conduct in your class to teach or reinforce your students understanding on adjectives. I actually did this activity in my class for a one period lesson and the students loved it.

STEPS

1. To grab students attention, you can show them random pictures or videos of a person, object or even animal. The picture or video must be clear enough for the students to make the shape out (well they are going to describe it).

2. Discuss with your students what the video or picture is about. By this time, your students should already be pouring tonnes of adjective just trying to describe what they just saw.

3. Tell your students that you are going to show them the video or pictures again. This time, tell them to write as many words describing the focus of video/pictures as they can. For intermediate or lower proficiency students, you can play or show it twice (if its not enough, find somehting very simple).

4. Once the session is done, discuss the answers with the students. You can even make students describe what they saw individually (this could be use as examples on how to use it or as a test to see if they know how to use it).

5. You can either explain to them what adjectives are or you can make them guess which part of speech do the words fall into.

6. For homework, you could ask your students to describe the items in their roo at home or their friends room.

EXTRA

> For advance students, you could try showing them fast . paced montages (i.e. the 'Llama Song' video) and have them write one adjectives for each picture that they see. See how many adjectives can the students come up with.

> Adjectives can also be a very fun ice breaking session. Have your students sit in a huge circle holding a paper each with their name on it. Pass the paper to the person sitting on their right and have that person write a sentence describing the person whose name is on the paper. Repeat till everyone has describe everyone in the class. Teacher can also join the game to make it more interesting.