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The LEA (Language Experience Approach) in the service of grammar - Possessive ('s) - Whose? Submitted by Paraskevi Andre... on 20 February, 2010 - 22:25 Tip 1: Idea: If you seek ways os practising the Possessive (Whose- `s) with young learners plus revising vocabulary items previously taught, then, how about setting up an open air market with flashcards/ realia in the classroom??? Ss will go around , asking different greengrocers whether the products that are up for sale are theirs (Whose are these juicy oranges??? ) -- the students playing part of the vendors will reply to customers/ students (they`re George`s) ; the customers/ Ss will proceed to ask: (Oh, they look delicious..how much are they?) Well, a lively way to practise grammar using an LEA approach.. Tip 2: Idea: Use projects to consolidate the lesson centred around the Lost Atlantis in the wonderful coursebook series by Herbert Puchta (More 2) ...ask from teenage Ss to draw the type of dinosaur that existed in that prehs...

“Humanising Language Teaching"   Summary My name is Paraskevi   Andreopoulou and I come from a Mediterranean island of Greece in the Aegean Sea   that is called Paros.   I have run my own school for 8 years now and I have taught all levels and age groups of English, Italian and Modern Greek as foreign languages. During the first years of operating my school, I aimed at transmitting   knowledge - cramming   material into their heads, like passive recipients, preparing them for exams   by attempting anxiously to “finish” the book with the view to “doing my job right” and awaiting anxiously to triumph over our students’ victory either on Facebook or Twitter   ,to celebrate and to rest on our laurels for achieving   high success   rates in such short time span intercepting the truth from our prospective clients for sticking to the book tradition and implementing nothing more than a typical Grammar Translation Method in our classrooms. An...