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'''Review of conditionals:''' discussing health inequality around the world:
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'''1st and 2nd / real and unreal conditionals:''' discussing health inequality around the world:
 
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or a Ready Lesson hypothesizing about conservation, poaching, fund-raising etc and how much they help:
 
or a Ready Lesson hypothesizing about conservation, poaching, fund-raising etc and how much they help:

Revision as of 17:57, 10 February 2017

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 'global justice' contexts you can use with articles and Ready Lessons from this wiki:

Passives:

Used to + infinitive:

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?:

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

https://eewiki.newint.org/index.php/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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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: