Do you need help with teaching grammar to beginner English learners? Don’t fret, I got you. In this video, we cover all of the steps, tips, and methodology needed for you to ace any grammar lesson you teach to beginner students. The methodology we are using in the video is based on a teaching structure that I developed called The 5 Points. This is an effective teaching strategy to get beginner students to communicate with each other as if they were higherlevel students.

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Here are the steps covered in the video

General Tips
1. Don’t teach too much grammar
2. Elicit everything
3. Keep your TTT VERY low
4. Move slowly
5. Drill a lot
6. Work on grammar variations
7. Keep your vocab basic to not overwhelm them

Prework: Think of 35 questions using your grammar point that you want your students to be able to use by the end of the lesson. The goal is for them to ask/answer these questions to each other without the use of the board or notes.

What are you wearing?
What is he/she wearing?
What am I wearing?
What are they wearing?
What are we wearing?

Point 1: Teach and review the vocabulary necessary to answer these questions. Since we are focusing on grammar, we want to keep the amount of vocabulary low. Obviously, enter your class with the basic hellos!


Point 2: Elicit an example to your first question, ‘I am wearing’. If the function is unclear to students, use visual aids to get the meaning across. Then, teach the name of the grammar point, ‘present continuous’. Finally, teach the structure for just the first example (we don’t want to overwhelm them). CCQ (concept check question) throughout the entire presentation. Try to keep it short!

Let students practice their own answers to the question using the vocabulary you reviewed.

After they can make their own statements, I’ll elicit and drill the question.

Point 3: In groups, have students practice both asking and answering the 1st question to each other in groups. We’ll jump back to Point 2 and do this with all of the question/answer pairs. With each new statement/question, review the grammar variations with them.

Point 4: With all of the questions on board, students can practice in pairs/groups by asking all of them. While they do this, begin to remove the prompts from the board. Since we practiced each question and answer individually, they should be able to manage this with some help. You can end (or begin) this section with a written study if you wish.

Point 5: Remove all notes and boarded structures, pass out role cards for variation, and incorporate negatives if appropriate. Encourage students, if they can, to use authentic language. Do this multiple times until their output sounds great.

Now that students have an understanding of the tense, you can teach more verbs and vocabulary in the next lesson to make the tense shine.