Taking Contextualized Grammar Online

Taking Contextualized Grammar Online

We know that teaching contextualized grammar is important for student learning. What about learning outside the classroom? Too many teachers assign de-contextualized homework — but Focus on Grammar Interactive has a convenient solution.

Make the Connection

When you teach a contextualized grammar lesson in class, you maintain
one continuous theme for the entire lesson. Nearly no-one has enough
time to create homework exercises that keep the same theme. …

Focus on Grammar Interactive
has automatically-graded exercises for every grammar point in Focus on
Grammar and all using the same theme as the student books.

Go Beyond Fill-in-the-blank

Focus on Grammar Interactive
takes contextualized homework one step further. It includes additional
reading, writing, listening, and speaking exercises in addition to
controlled practice and editing exercises.

Stop Grading Homework

The biggest benefit for teachers is that all of the exercises (except
writing) are automatically graded. This means that you can assign more
(and better) homework for your students and have less work for
yourself.

Try It Free

If you’d like to see how Focus on Grammar Interactive can improve your students’ homework and save you some time, try it out. Teachers can register for a free 30-day trial of the software online.

While you’re at it, contact your Pearson ELL Specialist for more information about adopting Focus on Grammar Interactive or any other Pearson ELT series.

 

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Communicative Activities for Teaching Grammar (and One Big Mistake to Avoid)

Communicative Activities for Teaching Grammar (and One Big Mistake to Avoid)

If you’re like most grammar teachers, you don’t have a lot of time to invent new

exercises. Here’s a set of 22 photocopiable activities for you to download and use in your next lesson, suggestions for using them, and one mistake to avoid.

The Activities

Click here for the activities. They include less controlled and free practice of
Present Simple and Present Progressive. …

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What Research Tells Us About Academic Preparation

What Research Tells Us About Academic Preparation

This month’s article presents the three major conclusions of what
20 studies tell us about preparing students for mainstream classes. Do
you use all three in your classes?

1.Teach Fully-Integrated Academic Skills

Just as students need to read, write, listen, and speak in a mainstream
classroom, so academic preparation should integrate all four skills. A
complete curriculum includes training in general academic skills and
then focuses in on how these skills are applied in reading textbooks,
listening to lectures, writing essays, and speaking in presentations.

2. …

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Teaching Reading in a Second Language

Bea MikuleckyBeatrice Mikulecky, Ed.D.

Teaching Reading in a Second Language

Effective reading is essential for success in any field, which makes it a key part of any language curriculum. This adaptation of an article by Dr.Beatrice Mikulecky, describes the reading process and outlines the research-based approach to reading that is exemplified in the Reading Power series. …

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