teaching grammar can be fun

Teaching grammar can be fun

Erasmus+ course Preparation

Participants complete a detailed questionnaire before the course starts to indicate their level ofexperience and training. Support information, a pre-reading list and programme details will beprovided to the participants.

Objectives - Defining grammar and refreshing the participant’s knowledge. - Finding meaning through context. - Showing how modern methodologies support the teaching of grammar. - Acquiring methods that make learning grammar fun. - Improving speaking and listening skills with communicative functions. - Understanding how grammar can be incorporated into lessons. - Developing higher order thinking skills. - Exchanging experiences and good practices among people coming from differentcountries who work in the same field.

Methodology:

The course is structured into 14 training modules, beginning with a definition of grammar to itsusage in the four skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing. Each module will incorporateboth a theoretical knowledge of grammar and the practical application in classroom situations.

Modules - Module 1: Grammar and the Communicative Approach, Grammar and Teaching Methods

- Module 2: Bloom, Higher order thinking skills and teaching grammar - Module 3: Games and fun activities when teaching grammar - Module 4: Teaching present tenses - Module 5: Teaching past tenses - Module 6: Teaching perfect tenses - Module 7: Teaching future forms - Module 8: Clauses (conditional clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses) - Module 9: Teaching modal verbs - Module 10: Writing Approaches - Module 11: Assessment and Correction - Module 12: Task based learning - Module 13: Using ICT - Module 14: Theatre and drama activities when teaching grammar - Module 15: Workshop, microteaching

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- City Tour - Local School Visit

Learning Outcomes - Improvement of the level of key competences and skills - Improvement of language skills - Improvement of teaching and learning languages and promotion of EU's broad linguisticdiversity and intercultural awareness - Strengthened professional profile of the teaching professions - Positive and long-lasting effects on the trainees involved - Increased capacity to cooperate on international level, internationalisation at the level ofeducation, enhanced intercultural awareness - practical ideas for classroom - encouragement of sharing best practices, ideas and materials between colleagues withinthe EU - improved abilities to use innovative and student-centred pedagogical approaches and todevelop appropriate assessment and certification methods, based on learning outcomes - boosted confidence in teaching subjects in English, improved teachers’ mobility - acquisition of practical language to be used in the classroom - heightened awareness of different classroom techniques - Acquisition of new techniques, ideas, sources of materials

Follow-up

Participants will complete a workbook either for their personal reference which they can updateon their return home.

A course manual will be provided.

A mailing list of participants will be created in order to exchange ideas/experiences.

EACH COURSE WILL BE HELD WITH MINIMUM OF 10 COURSE PARTICIPANTS

Course Dates Year 2015: Erasmus+ PRAGUE, PARIS and LONDON dates

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5 day mobility 10 day mobility - 19.1. - 23.1. - 16.2. - 20.2. - 16.3. - 20.3. - 13.4. - 17.4. - 11.5. - 15.5. - 8.6. - 12.6. - 6.7. - 10.7. - 3.8. - 7.8. - 31.8. - 4.9. - 28.9. - 2.10. - 26.10. - 30.10. - 23.11. - 27.11.

- 19.1. - 30.1. - 16.2. - 27.2. - 16.3. - 27.3. - 13.4. - 24.4. - 11.5. - 22.5. - 8.6. - 19.6. - 6.7. - 17.7. - 3.8. - 14.8. - 31.8. - 11.9. - 28.9. - 9.10. - 26.10. - 6.11. - 23.11. - 4.12.

Year 2016: Erasmus+ dates PRAGUE PARIS LONDON BARCELONA 5 days 10 days 5 days 10 days 5 days 10 days 5 days 10 days - 18.1. – 22.1. - 15.2. – 19.2. - 14.3. – 18.3. - 11.4. – 15.4. - 9.5. – 13.5.

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- 18.1. – 29.1. - 15.2. – 26.2. - 14.3. – 25.3. - 11.4. – 22.4. - 9.5. – 20.5. - 6.6. – 17.6. - 4.7. – 15.7. - 1.8. – 12.8. - 29.8. – 9.9. - 26.9. – 7.10. - 24.10. – 4.11. - 21.11. – 2.12.

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