Global Justice contexts for presenting and practising grammar

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:

• SHORT NEWS STORIES FROM 2016 - a 1.5 hr lesson for Upper Intermediate groups: reading, speaking and grammar (passives)

Used to + infinitive:

• THEN AND NOW - a 1.5/2 hr lesson for Intermediate learners: grammar (used to/present perfect) + reading, speaking and vocabulary

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

• READY LESSON (for Pre-Intermediate learners) : OTHER COUNTRIES

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:

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners): WOMEN

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

• READY INTERMEDIATE LESSON ON PROTECTING THE PLANET AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

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

• READY LESSON (for Pre-Intermediate learners) : WOMEN AND CLOTHES

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

• READY LESSON (for Pre-intermediate learners) : STORIES - HELPING REFUGEES

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

• READY UPPER-INTERMEDIATE LESSON: HEALTH FOR THE WORLD

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

The more ... the more ...:

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : THE MORE MONEY WE HAVE ...

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

• READY LESSON (for Upper Intermediate learners) : WHERE ARE THE FORESTS GOING?

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

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : PANGOLINS

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:

• GLOBAL JUSTICE IN EASIER ENGLISH