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Date Posted: 18:59:08 06/13/07 Wed
Author: Ana Karla de Souza Pimenta Domingos
Subject: Task 4

Teaching grammar has always been associated to tough things like taking a medicine or being assigned detention.However grammar is essencial to an esl student and it can be fun,as long as you know how to do develop an interesting class.

Teaching the yearly grammar unit can be like giving a child cough medicine. Some students take it without flinching; others -- those with a mental block about grammar -- flinch at the mere mention of the word.
We all know that grammar skills are essential to students' success on standardized tests and college entrance exams, in their ability to communicate orally and in writing, and in life! So the more fun we can have with grammar -- and the more varied approaches we can use to teach it -- the more likely our students are to learn it.

Some teachers may ask theirselves why students find grammar such a boring subject,and few of them figure out the answer.The reason why they almost fall sleep when they are learning grammar is because everything that is related to rules,and we know english grammar has many,are rapidly associated to complicated things.Students also tend to wonder why they need to learn that. What can english teachers could do to make things work out better? A good thing to do is to show students how grammar is part of their lives even thought they don not notice it. Secondly, teachers should try to develop an exciting class and use other materials than only books.
Work with song lyrics, show students how grammar works inside things they might like.Music, movies and novels are often an excelent way to make grammar lessons more enjoyable.

In sum, when classes are funny they are never boring.If the teacher can make this prejudice of seeing grammar lessons as a difficult subjet,surely students will learn easily.

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