Grammar is traditionally taught through explanations and exercises: but a lot of the exercises are clearly aiming to elicit correct sentences (gapfills, matching etc.), and can often be done without understanding the content.  Such types of practice probably don’t provide for optimal learning, and are also rather boring. In this session, I’ll begin by discussing why grammar should be presented and reviewed meaningfully, and present some examples of meaningful and learning-rich grammar-based activities.

                                                                                                                                                                                          

Penny Ur is an experienced English teacher at primary and secondary level, and has taught preparatory and in-service courses on ELT methodology. Her main interest is the design and use of practical classroom language-teaching procedures and materials, on which she has written a number of books, including A course in English language teaching (2nd Edition) (2012), Discussions and more (2014), Vocabulary activities (2011), Penny Ur’s 100 teaching tips (2016), Penny Ur’s 77 tips for teaching vocabulary (2022), all published by Cambridge University Press. She was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II for services to English Language Teaching in 2013.