Sticky Grammar! #3: Walking Backwards

The example I set out in this series of posts comes from a Year 10 unit in January lasting four weeks on three lessons per week, in which pupils will, at the end of it, write a letter to a shop to complain about some faulty goods they were given as Christmas presents and the [...]

Sticky Grammar! #2: What makes it sticky?

This series of posts is intended as a reminder for those who attended my seminars at ALL Cornwall Regional Branch in July, at The Schools Network Languages Conference in Warwick or the Language Show Live in London in October, and as an explanation for those who were not there but are interested in an approach [...]

Sticky Grammar! #1 Making Grammar Teaching Really Work For All Learners

James Stubbs – Sticky Grammar Handout James Stubbs – Sticky Grammar Thank you very much to all who came along to my session today at The Language Show at Olympia, London.  For a limited time the handout and powerpoints are available here for you to download and use.  The session, like the one I gave [...]

Where’s the dog? Stage 4

Stage 4: Powerpoint for this stage (Powerpoint 2011): Dónde está el perro 4 Surely it’s over now?!  Well, nearly.  You can tag this on to the last stage if you want, but be careful of overload – you’ll end up talking more than the class, and that’s not the idea. Here, the game is exactly the [...]

Where’s the dog? Stage 3

Stage 3: Powerpoint for this version (Powerpoint 2011): Dónde está el perro 3 We’re not done yet.  As pupils get used to the game and how it’s played, and their appreciation of how lessons run and what they are allowed / not allowed to do, the rate of progression which I introduce picks up quite quickly.  [...]