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iLEAP Ideas
For ideas about how to help your learners learn on their own, see the above link!  Found it at @AugustAvram via #LINCchat  "Part 1 - Identify my goal"

Motivation - The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace

Unit 2 - Sample Learner Personas & Lesson Planning Ideas

Game & Activities for the ESL Classroom

Image Sites

Free Images - ABSFreePic

Free Images - Pixabay

Free Images - Unsplash

Language Resources

Document containing a wide variety of classroom activities/planning ideas around relevant topics for newcomers. (housing, culture, law, etc)

 Listening - Top Down and Bottom Up Listening Strategies
This site contains good support for understanding the difference in strategies and has some good activity ideas.

Lesson Planning

English Grammar 101
Website for Grammar Fundamentals - teaching resource.

Grammar Exercises
Website for grammar practice - can be used in class or use to create worksheets with relevant topics.There are a lot of options regarding different topics.

 AzarGrammar.com
Thousands of worksheets, exercises, games and activities to download and use in your classroom. 

 Graphic Organizers - Lesson Planning
Graphic Oganizers are visual tools for learners to connect concepts and ideas and promote thinking skills.

 Lesson Resources - Teachers Pay Teachers
Use this for resources so you don't have to "reinvent the wheel"!

 Rubric Creator
Need help developing rubrics?  Check out this link!


 Speaking and Pronunciation Practice
American based site, so consider which portions might be not applicable.

 Task Based Teaching Information & Ideas
Information on Information Gap, Reasoning Gap and Opinion Gap activities.

 Technology Apps for the Classroom

 New Journey Housing
Non profit organization in Winnipeg to support newcomers with information around housing/rentals in Manitoba.  Offers free workshops and has online pdf booklets and print versions that may be useful for topical learning.

Online Tools

Adobe Spark
Free online supported video tool.

Duolingo - Personal Practice Tool

Learning Chocolate - Vocabulary Learning Platform - Free online resource for vocabulary development using sound and images to convey meaning.

Screen Cast - Communication/Teaching Tool - Free online resource for recording webcasts for teaching/learning/instruction.

 Snappy Words - Visual tool for generating synonyms of words to help with definition.

SpeakPipe.com  - Free online resource for recording messages or using in lessons for listening exercises.
Example of SpeakPipe in use: Thoughts around Language Acquisition

Venngage - online infographic tool 

Reading Resources

Cultural Intelligence


 Grammar Journal
Grammar Journal
Term
Definition
Example (if applicable)
Prescriptivism (proscriptive)
How people should use the language; follows the rules;informs about common established patterns; supports non-native speakers understanding of language

Descriptivism
How people actually use the language; variation and adaptation as necessary in language

Linguistics
A set of patterns for how words are put together to form phrases or clauses, whether spoken or in writing.

Grammar
Set of linguistic habits that are being negotiated and re-invented by language users; language patterns that indicate relationship among words in a sentence

Morphemes
1.    Building blocks of words
2.    Not related to syllables – can have a word with one syllable that has more than one morpheme as in “words”
3.    Derivational Morphemes


4.    Inflectional Morphemes
Words is made up of 2 morphemes – “word” and “s”


Affixes (prefixes or suffixes) added to words to form new works – possible to impossible or possibility
Provide grammatical information about gender, number, person, case, degree, and verb form.  Most are suffixes, but some irregular forms exist i.e. men is the plural of man
Gender
English does not assign gender to nouns (such as French or German)

Subject


Predicate
States or affirms something about the subject of a sentence
“went home” in “John went home”
Object


Verb

·         Lexical
·         Auxiliary

·         Modal – express necessity and possibility
Action

·         Main verbs that carry meaning
·         Be, have & do combine with lexical verbs to create new forms
·         Can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, ought, and must combine with lexical verbs to convey important nuances of meaning


·         I live in Winnipeg.
·         I have lived here for three years.

·         I may arrive late.
Plurals


Pronouns


·         Subjective
·         Objective
·         Genitive (Possessive)
May be used in reference to nouns
I, you, we (non gender pronouns); he, she, him, her, his, her, his, hers (gender pronouns)

I, you, he, she, you, we, they
Me, you, him, her, you, us, them
My/mine, your/yours, his, her/hers, your, yours, our/ours, their/theirs
Number
The distinction between singular and plural; often requires adding a suffix to the word to pluralize
Book/books, however not all countable nouns require suffixes – some don’t change ie. 1 moose, 3 moose; rice is rice whether singular or plural
Adjectives

(regular and irregular)
English order – opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose – then the object (noun); adjectives usually precede nouns

Adverbs

(regular and irregular)
Modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb ; all types of words that don’t fit into another category such as noun, adjective, verb, preposition are lumped together and are adverbs

·         Manner

Carefully, slowly
·         Frequency

Always, often, never
·         Time and place

Now, here
·         Relative time

Already, recently, soon
·         Degree

Extremely, rather, very
·         Quantity

A lot, a little
·         Focusing

Even, also, only, particularly
·         Attitude markers

Apparently, fortunately
·         Focusing adverbs & attitude markers
Discourse markers

Preposition


Conjunction


Interjection


Real/First/Second/Third Conditional


Tense


·         Present


·         Past


·         Future


·         Present perfect


·         Past perfect


·         Future perfect


Passive/Active Voice


Articles
“a” –  indefinite article - used before a noun with a consonant sound; non-specific
“an” – indefinite article - used before a noun beginning with a vowel sound; non-specific
“the” – definite article; used to identify a particular object

Syntax
The way words are organized in sentences to create meaning.
English order – subject-verb-object
Tag questions
Questions tacked to the end of statements
Doesn’t she?  Don’t they?  Do they?
Literary Style

·         Literary
·         Normal
Involves variations from the usual word order in English.


·         So poor were they that…
·         They were so poor that…


Teaching tips:
  1.          Grammar is best taught and practiced in authentic context.
  2.          Supportive feedback is more effective than overt correction.
  3.          Must be appropriate for current level of development.
  4.          Need opportunity for repetition through hearing, reading, practice (months)
  5.          Plan activities that feature repeated language patterns.
  6.          Use the lesson content to introduce grammar concepts.
  7.          Provide them with the tools/vocabulary to talk about language.
  8.          Deductive and inductive methods may be used in conjunction with each other (doesn’t have to be one or the other)
  9.          Three main types of lesson plans – Present-Practice-Produce, Task Based, Skill Based


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