[etni] Re: Question - Which is better to teach first - Grammar
- From: <Leo.Selivan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:37:21 -0000
Don't remember if it appears in the Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken
English or if it was Lewis (of the Lexical Approach fame) who said that 70% of
the time we use Simple forms (both Present and Past) so teach your students
Present and Past simple and they will be correct - in terms of grammar - 70% of
the time.
You also might want to look at this blog post:
http://kalinago.blogspot.com/2012/01/fixed-acquisition-order-no-evidence.html
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 17:50:46 +0200
Subject: [etni] Re: etni Digest V10 #61
From: Avraham Roos <avrahamroos@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I don't know if looking at grammar books can help here.
>
A quick glance at my bookshelf showed that Grammar Power (UPP) starts with
Present Simple while Develop Your Grammar (ECB) starts with Present
Progressive.
Maybe the *order *itself is less important that what else you want to teach
in this unit.
Avraham Roos
> Subject: [etni] Fwd: re: Question - Which is better to teach first -
> Grammar
>
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> From: Marlene <marlenegay@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Question - Which is better to teach first - Grammar
>
>
> According to my grammar books for elementary school, as well as
> Murphy's English Grammar In Use - present progressive is taught first
> (maybe because it's here and now and can be demonstrated in the
> classroom). Maybe because the interrogative and negative forms are
> easier to grasp (change in sentence order/adding "not" as compared to
> present simple's use of the auxiliary do. But then the conjugation of
> the verb be in the present tense needs to be taught (which technically
> is present simple). Chapter 2 is usually present simple, as well as
> the concept of stative verbs.
> Marlene
>
>
> Einav wrote:
> > I have two benchmarks that I want to teach my students towards. One of
> these benchmarks needs as a prerequisite student knowledge of the present
> simple, the other the present progressive. While making my checklist of
> what students need to be taught I noticed that they do not know either. Can
> anyone advise me on a preferred order of teaching? Does the knowledge of
> one of these grammar points influence/ disturb the learning of the other?
> Which of these two benchmarks is best to teach first?
>
>
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