by Andreea Dumitru » Tue Feb 19, 2013 8:22 pm
I have found most - if not all- of the materials presented by other teachers during the project meetings to be potentially quite useful, or, at the very least, thought provoking. The only difficulty would be one of time - with only two classes of English per week per class, there is a lot to be done in a short space of time. One of the methods I managed to use myself involves using short animated films, freely available on YouTube (and not only) to teach grammar points, especially for young learners, such as 5th and 6th graders. The film I used was the one included in the initial demonstration done in Italy, namely "Partly cloudy" and the grammar point was Present Continuous. Especially in the case of young learners of English, this particular approach seems to be very popular, and more likely to encourage them to practice the grammar point being taught.