Today’s Class Instructions
Exercise 1:
Weekly Question: For any and all students
In order to expose students to more complicated grammar on a regular basis we will ask them questions which use common, but difficult, sentence structures.
Have you ever (Past Participle Verb) + (Object) ?
Examples:
Have you ever seen snow?
Have you ever eaten shark meat?
Have you ever been to Beijing?
Explain to students:
Have done – means you did it before, but you do not usually say when
Exercise 2:
Listen and Spell
Focusing on spelling can give students a new perspective on words. They will start to understand spelling indicates pronunciation and differences in meaning.
- Play Hangman
Hangman is a great game to teach students about spelling. Take your time to explain the rules and draw the game on a whiteboard or piece of paper. After they have successfully guessed the word, make them take on the other role, and you will guess the word that they choose.
2. Pronounce a word clearly and slowly, let the student spell the word out. Make sure they write or type the word.
Examples:
Teacher Pronounces: Traffic
Student Writes: Taffek
Teacher Pronounces: TAH, FEKK? (Make sure to pronounce their spelling as you see it, so they will get that it’s not correct)
Student Writes: Traffek?
Teacher Pronounces: tra f EHK? (Put emphasis on the misspelled part of the word and ask them to try again)
Student Writes: Traffic.
Teacher: Traffic, great, T R A F F I C.
(Make sure to introduce students how to spell words quickly also)
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