How to plan an ESL grammar lesson | How to Teach Grammar

Are you looking for a way to teach grammar that will engage your students and allow them to have fun? Grammar lessons can be tricky for a variety of reasons. They can be boring. The grammar might be too challenging for the students. Continue watching for the best tips for planning an ESL grammar lesson. ------- • Check out this blog post for more grammar tips: https://eslspeaking.org/how-to-teach-grammar/ • Teach Any English Grammar Point In 10 Minutes by @TheLanguageHouseTEFL https://youtu.be/P-Lqj0ipGMU?si=q-pwQ0qBRq4fLHns • Watch an easy grammar activity for your class? Watch my video here: https://youtu.be/QbVup8yeu4c • Read my book: 39 No-Prep/Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities here: https://amzn.to/3O1wDfI ------ https://www.facebook.com/eslspeaking https://www.pinterest.ca/eslspeaking/ https://www.instagram.com/jackie.bolen/ https://www.tiktok.com/@englishwithjackie?lang=en #teachingenglishwithjackie #teachingenglish #grammartutorial -------------------------------------------------------- Transcript Here are the steps for how to plan an ESL grammar lesson. Step one is to set the context. Basically, you want students to kind of activate their prior knowledge they have about a topic. For example, if you're teaching about the simple past maybe you could just kind of informally ask students about: what did you do last night, or something like that. Or, get students to talk to their partner about it. Whatever your grammar point is, just kind of a very simple kind of warm-up activity that gets students kind of generally thinking about a context that they could use that grammar point that you're going to teach them. The second thing is to introduce the grammar. This is generally done through a listening passage or a listening exercise or a reading passage. And then during those things, you would listen once or read once quickly and have some very simple true or false questions. The second time listening or the second time reading, you could kind of answer some more detailed kind of comprehension questions. And then at that point, you would get students to focus on the grammar that you're going to be teaching based on those things. Once you've introduced the grammar and then you would kind of focus on the rules, give some explicit examples and do some explicit teaching about the grammar. After that, you would do some controlled practice. So often the textbook is a good source for this, but kind of like some fill-in-the blank, maybe like irregular simple past verb students would have to like figure out the form of the verb and the correct spelling and that kind of thing. And then after that, you can do a bit of freer practice. There are a ton of different activities and games you could do that would focus on the grammar, not in like a very controlled way but kind of students have a little bit of freedom to use it in kind of the way that they want. After that, you might want to do some review, give some homework, and then of course, in the next class do some more review and then also follow up with that. All right, if you like these activities, please be sure to check out my book: 39 No-Prep, Low-Prep ESL Grammar Activities. Timestamp for how to plan an English grammar lesson: 0:00 Intro 0:08 Set the context 0:40 Introduce the grammar 1:14 Controlled practice 1:43 Review 1:50 Follow up 1:51 Outro Tags: ESL grammar lesson, grammar, grammar for english teachers, tefl grammar lessons, english grammar for teachers, esl grammar lesson plans, teaching grammar to esl students, english grammar teaching, how to teach grammar, best way to teach grammar, fun ways to teach grammar, grammar for esl learners, grammar lesson plan, teaching grammar esl, esl grammar lessons, tefl grammar activities, english grammar esl, grammar teaching, how to teach english grammar