Teaching Grammar Communicatively

Our Teaching Grammar Communicatively course blends language awareness and practical demonstration, all while looking at how and why we really use grammar - why the choices a speaker makes matter in terms of communicating subtle nuances of meaning. Each of the four sessions focuses on a key area of grammar with analysis of this pitched towards the experienced rather than novice teacher. The course is also packed full of practical ideas for helping learners, from novel ways of presenting language, to tried-and-tested techniques for clarification and from engaging controlled practice ideas to dynamic activities for communicative use.

The four sessions focus on the following areas:

Session 1: Time, Tense and Aspect - simple, perfect and continuous tenses
Session 2: The Passive - the active vs. passive voice, causative and other variants
Session 3: Past Habits - being nostalgic with past simple, would and used to
Session 4: The Noun Phrase - the ways in which we modify nouns, before and after

"Examine key areas of grammar, design lessons that emphasise real life communicative use, and plan and teach genuinely meaningful and useful grammar lessons.”

Neil Anderson, your main course tutor and Head of Training at the Budapest Training Institute

Main course tutor: Neil Anderson
Course schedule: Thu 5:00-7:00pm CET, 4 weeks

Available
face-to-face & online

Next starting date
spring 2024, online

Course fee / module
24 900 Ft

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Teaching Vocabulary Communicatively

What is involved in learning a word? There is a lot to learn about even a single lexical item: its meaning, form, stress and sounds, the other words it usually pairs with... and much more besides. How can we help our students learn new words more efficiently, keep them active and use them appropriately? This course focuses on how to really analyse lexical items to depth so that we can help learners understand and use them effectively. It also presents a range of ideas for creatively shaping vocabulary lessons: in particular, how to present, clarify and practise vocab in memorable ways. Among other areas, we will look at:

analysing vocabulary in order to ensure learners can understand and use them accurately;
going beyond individual words: the nature of collocation and lexical chunks;
techniques for presenting and clarifying vocabulary;
helping learners with longer term retention of vocabulary.