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Sticky Grammar! #2: What makes it sticky?
This series of posts is intended as a reminder for those who attended my seminars at ALL Cornwall Regional Branch in July, at The Schools Network Languages Conference in Warwick or the Language Show...
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Sticky Grammar! #3: Walking Backwards
The example I set out in this series of posts comes from a Year 10 unit in January lasting four weeks on three lessons per week, in which pupils will, at the end of it, write a letter to a shop to...
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Sticky Grammar! #4: 20 clues, 20 questions
Now, where were we? In this series of posts we’re looking at ways to make grammar stick with classes of all abilities, especially the difficult bits that are often reserved for higher sets, by...
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Sticky Grammar! #5: Gender Walls
By the end of article #4 in this series, I had presented the new vocabulary for Christmas presents and repeated it with the class using a song (12 Days of Christmas) and various activities to be done...
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Sticky Grammar! #6: The Sentence-Construction Game
The activity I’m going to describe in this post is the climax of a whole series of activities intended to teach pupils how to use direct object pronouns in the perfect tense in French with all the...
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Happy New Year!
Welcome to the new academic year! And to the PGCE students I met around and about on courses and conferences last year, welcome to your new career! To help you on your way, I’m kicking off the year...
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