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A blog post on using films to teach grammar by Magda Smith
We tend to throw at our students many fancy terms like total immersion/submersion, accent reduction, PPP, TTT, task-based learning and many more. We tell them to pretty much live and breathe English, but very rarely do we explain how to actually do it successfully. Why? Well, what works for me might not necessarily work for someone else. We want our students to know grammar, but we don’t really want to bore them with tons of exercises. Is it possible to do it differently? Can we tell them to simply watch fi
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always hated learning grammar. Regardless of the language (and yes, there were a few of those and most likely there are more to come) grammar seemed like the most boring thing to study. Why am I telling you this? It’s simple. I LOVE teaching it!
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