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Several of the Ready Lessons provide an authentic, memorable context for eliciting and practising a grammar structure. This helps bring global issues into class, engages learners, makes the context memorable and helps learners see and relate to the meaning / function of the structure.  
 
Several of the Ready Lessons provide an authentic, memorable context for eliciting and practising a grammar structure. This helps bring global issues into class, engages learners, makes the context memorable and helps learners see and relate to the meaning / function of the structure.  
  
'''Below are some of the many 'global justice' contexts you can use with articles and Ready Lessons from this wiki:'''
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'''Below are some of the many grammar Ready Lessons from this Easier English wiki New Internationalist:'''
  
 
'''Passives''':
 
'''Passives''':
 
*[[SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM 2016 - a 1.5 hr lesson for Upper Intermediate groups: reading, speaking and grammar (passives)]]
 
*[[SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM 2016 - a 1.5 hr lesson for Upper Intermediate groups: reading, speaking and grammar (passives)]]
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http://www.newint.org/features/2016/12/16/chile-590.jpg
  
 
'''Used to + infinitive:'''
 
'''Used to + infinitive:'''
 
*[[THEN AND NOW - a 1.5/2 hr lesson for Intermediate learners: grammar (used to/present perfect) + reading, speaking and vocabulary]]
 
*[[THEN AND NOW - a 1.5/2 hr lesson for Intermediate learners: grammar (used to/present perfect) + reading, speaking and vocabulary]]
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'''3rd conditional:'''
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*[[RANA PLAZA AND TRADE UNIONS - for Intermediate learners: quiz/infographic/reading/grammar/writing - 1.5-2 hrs]]
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http://www.newint.org/features/2016/08/17/01-09-2016-from-the-ashes-of-rana-plaza-590.jpg
  
 
'''Comparatives''': practise comparing literacy and life expectancy in North Korea and Myanmar:   
 
'''Comparatives''': practise comparing literacy and life expectancy in North Korea and Myanmar:   
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* [[READY UPPER-INTERMEDIATE LESSON: HEALTH FOR THE WORLD]]
 
* [[READY UPPER-INTERMEDIATE LESSON: HEALTH FOR THE WORLD]]
  
or a Ready Lesson hypothesizing about conservation, poaching, fund-raising etc and how much they help:
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or a review of all '''3 main conditionals''' in the context of conservation, poaching, fund-raising etc and how much they help:
  
 
*[[READY LESSON (for Upper-Intermediate learners) : CHARITIES AND NGOS]]
 
*[[READY LESSON (for Upper-Intermediate learners) : CHARITIES AND NGOS]]

Latest revision as of 15:05, 7 February 2021

TEACHING AND PRACTISING GRAMMAR:

Several of the Ready Lessons provide an authentic, memorable context for eliciting and practising a grammar structure. This helps bring global issues into class, engages learners, makes the context memorable and helps learners see and relate to the meaning / function of the structure.

Below are some of the many grammar Ready Lessons from this Easier English wiki New Internationalist:

Passives:

chile-590.jpg

Used to + infinitive:

3rd conditional:

01-09-2016-from-the-ashes-of-rana-plaza-590.jpg

Comparatives: practise comparing literacy and life expectancy in North Korea and Myanmar:

Present perfect active and passive: compare active achievements of women from the past to now with passive examples of what's been done to them:

Present Continuous: what are various countries around the world doing to combat climate change?:

Past Simple (regular/irregular verbs - pre-int level): summarise these short stories about women wearing veils:

Present perfect: what have all the groups in these stories done to help refugees?:

489-01-cover.jpg

1st and 2nd / real and unreal conditionals: discussing health inequality around the world:

or a review of all 3 main conditionals in the context of conservation, poaching, fund-raising etc and how much they help:

keynote-590.jpg

The more ... the more ...:

Various grammar areas: different groups review verbs, prepositions and articles with the same text:

Question forms: in this lesson about Pangolins (what are they??):

Here's a training session, from Tower Hamlets FE College, London, in February 2017 about 'Teaching Grammar in Authentic Contexts':

Media:Grammar in authentic contexts.pptx

Media:Grammar in authentic contexts.pdf

More contextualised grammar practice (and skills development) in these new small workbooks: at Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate and Upper Intermediate levels, available from the link to the Ethical Shop here: