Saturday, April 9, 2011

Flickr in teaching



I made this photo book with Bookr. I think it could help my teaching about the “There be sentence”.
I’d like to share this photo book with the class, show them pictures, and let students make sentences with “There be…” to say something about these pictures. As I have already given sample sentences, it would not be very difficult to students. In class, students are asked to discuss what in the market orally. After class, the students would be assigned to work in groups and make their own photo book to introduce a place. They could describe what are in the summer beach. They could also talk about what are in the garden in the sunny spring. The students could acquire new grammar knowledge by making photo book, which is a more communicative way. If the teacher focus only on the linguistic items the class would be very boring.

1 comment:

Maryanne said...

This could be a good way to practice "there" + a form of "be" but I would suggest including both singular and plural forms so that the students learn to differentiate.

Please note that two of your sentences should have "is" instead of "are": "what is on a summer beach" and "what is in a garden".