is teaching grammar to your English language learners feel a lot like this
alright class I know how much you love grammar okay
so let's review the conjugations all right let's start with I am you are he
is she is it is oh you're doing so great hey in this video I'm going to show you
three fun ESL grammar games that your students are not only going to enjoy but
they're going to be able to apply it in different scenarios when speaking and
writing hi I'm dr. hem Phil and if you're new to the language lady
community I want to let you know that I post weekly teaching tips on resources
strategies and games for English language learners of all ages if you end
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so you don't miss a Wednesday video the first game that I'm going to show you
how to play is called ESL correction in this game your students are going to be
correcting ESL grammar mistakes on 12 sentences that you're going to list on
the board and in those 12 sentences there is going to be a grammar mistake
you're going to divide your classroom into four teams team a b c and d each
team is going to gamble as to how confident they are that they have found
the error in that sentence and they cannot gamble any more than 50 points to
start up the game you're going to start each team with 100 points and the first
team to start is going to be team a you're going to have team 8 choose a
sentence for Team V and then team B is going to huddle together and they're
going to determine what is the mistake in that sentence once they have come to
a consensus they are going to share that error and go up to the board and fix it
and then if it's correct they gain the points that they gambled if they're
incorrect they lose those points and then it goes to team a team a gets a
chance to answer if they get it correct then they win those points that team B
had originally gambled if they get it wrong they don't lose any points and
the game starts over again with Team B then choosing a sentence for Team C and
so forth until you find a winner of the game the next game I'm going to share
with you is called Grammer races in they came Grammer races it's going to give
you an opportunity to assess your students and be able to review the areas
of vocabulary usage sentence structure and grammar and I'll use some examples
in the links in the description below to start this game what you're going to do
is you're going to divide the class into four teams and you're going to allocate
a number for each team and that number is going to go on the board so that
there's an area for them to write their answer and for each team you're going to
have a writer and a runner so what you're going to do is you're going to
come up with a keyword phrase or vocabulary word that they are all
familiar with and that you would like them to revive and what they're going to
do is as a team they're going to work together to create a sentence out of
that key word once they're ready with that key word they're going to share it
with the runner and the runner is going to run up to the writer and the writer
will then write it on the board poof that's a lot of writer Runner in one
sentence after the writer for all four teams has finished writing the sentences
on the board you're going to pause the game and then you're going to assess
each sentence for grammar sentence structure and vocabulary usage and what
you'll do is you're underlined what was correct and then circle what is
incorrect so let's say that team one gets two out of the three correct that
one part that's incorrect you are going to allow the other teams
to get a shot at correcting it the first hand that goes up for whichever team
gets a chance and if they get it correct they get that point then you're going to
go on to sentence number two for team two and you're going to correct it and
once again whichever one is maybe correct you're going to then throw it
out to the other teams the first hand that goes up they get a chance at
correcting it and you're going to do this until you find someone who has the
most points and they're the ones that win that round the third game is called
verb races this is probably my students most favorite game because it's very
interactive and I don't know why but they just really love using a whiteboard
and marker and what you're going to do is
you're going to divide your class into equal teams and making sure that each
team there's the same number of students so you can work with four students in
each team three it doesn't matter as long as there's an equal number of
students in each team as much as you can then what you're going to do is you're
going to have each of those teams sit in a row facing the board and you're going
to give the first student in each row a whiteboard and a marker and you're going
to assign every student a subject pronoun so for example student one can
be I then student two will be you student three will be he and so so and
so forth and then what you're going to do is you're going to assign a verb
whether it's in the past or in the present so for example let's say the
word is go so student number one is gonna take their whiteboard and write I
go and then they're going to hand it to the person behind them and that person
will say he goes and you're gonna keep going to the end and then the last
student what they're gonna do is after they finish writing their pronoun and
the verb they're going to go to the board and they're going to write out all
the sentences and then you're going to assess all the sentences the team that
has the most correct wins that round then the last student is going to become
the first student and then you're going to they're still going to have student
one will be I and so forth that way everybody gets a chance to be a
different pronoun and then you're going to choose a different verb and you can
do a verb in the future tense in the past tense so many different variations
the whole point is that they're learning to be able to use the correct
conjugation depending on what pronoun they're assigned to make your life
easier and because I know that you're very busy
what I did is I linked in the description below for each game
different examples so that you don't have to go hunting for different
examples of grammar sentences and vocabulary usage and grammar and so
forth of all the different games that I have
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