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Today I want to share with you some very interesting and useful technology tools for teaching grammar. 
Lately, I have been working on a project about teaching grammar and I have searched about some ways and tools that can help us to make our lessons more interesting and fun for our pupils or students.
As we already know, teaching grammar isn't difficult bur for our students or pupils it is difficult and sometimes it gets boring when you use the same method every single time you have to explain a new grammar. That's why I decided to share and give you some technology tools to teach grammar ( but not only grammar, you can use them for other skills, too) better.

1) Grammar Mind Maps Grammar mind maps can make your grammar lessons more visual. The goal of grammar mind maps is to appeal to both the left and right sides of your brain and hopefully thus enable students to learn concepts more successfully. The website GrammarMindMaps.com has a number of great examples you can employ. Just take a look at this one that explores the present simple tense as one example – it’s got colors, fun images, and examples of the different forms of the tense.


2) X-Word Grammar This editing technique came recommended by one of our loyal readers. It’s meant to help students learn grammar rules as they go (so it works well in conjunction with #2). The idea behind it is that our language has a number of key terms (the “x words”) that play an especially important role in understanding the grammar in any sentence. By focusing on the x-words and the part they play in each sentence, you can come to better understand sentence structure and the relationships between parts of speech.


4) Use Existing (Fun) Text Analyzing sentence structure can become immediately more entertaining if you start with sentences that students have a reason to care about. You could take a clip from a popular TV show, children’s book, or even comic book and pull out sentences for your students to analyze. Grammar will be a little more entertaining for your students if they get to talk about the Avengers or Dora the Explorer in the process.


5) Physical Games Why not bring a more playful physical component into your grammar lesson? Over at Busy Teacher, they recommend gathering your students into a circle for a parts-of- speech challenge. Throw a beanbag toward a student chosen at random and name a part-of- speech that they must provide an example of. If they get it right, they stay in the game. If they get it wrong they leave the circle until the next game. Education World recommends a game of verb/adverb charades, which is just what it sounds like. Students have two stacks cards with verbs and adverbs and choose one of each. Then they act out what the two words together mean while other students guess. These are just a couple of starter ideas, but with a little creative thinking you can probably come up with more.


That's all for this week. I hope ( and I am sure) you will find this post and the tools mentioned above useful... :)
Wish you a wonderful week.


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