UNIT 1 GRAMMAR

WHAT IS GRAMMAR?

In my review  grammar refers to system and structure of any language. I consider that most of the students hate grammar because it includes many parts of the speech, rules and principles guiding the use of the language within the sentence but we as English teachers must focus on communicative activities in order to get students be motivated to study the grammar. According to the TKT (Teaching Knowledge Test Book) Grammar helps us to combine, organize and change parts of words and groups of words to share a meaning. In addition, we have grammatical forms it refers to how words are made up and presented in speech or writing. 

Indeed, we have nine parts of speech such as; verbs, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, determiners or articles. They play a main role in a sentence for that reason we have to know how to recognize the parts of the speech and how they joined in a sentence in order to write or speak correctly and legible. Also, it has a high level of importance because it helps  how to punctuate sentences. For instance, something that can I said about nouns. They are divided into two main categories, but  many students are confused between proper nouns and common nouns.  Proper nouns refer to the names of people or places that are capitalized as (Aims Community College, John Smith, etc.).On the other hand, Common nouns are named that do not require capitalization like (pen, table, bag, etc). 

Finally, I learned useful information about grammar  during the review of unit 1 through reflective blogs, tests, and activities developed in the classroom. I will apply this information in my teaching process by creating flashcards, posters , presentations with examples and definitions of each part of speech in order to emphasize the essential elements of grammar and achieve the objectives at my teaching classroom.

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Well, this what I have learned from unit 1.



Bibliography: 


Spratt, M., Pulverness, A., & Williams, M. (2011). The TKT course. Ernst Klett Sprachen.

The TKT course. Module 1,2,3 

Additional Information

Books:

1. Aitchison, J. 2003. Words in the Mind. (3rd ed.) Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

2. Cruse, A. 1986. Lexical Semantics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

3. Labov, W. 1973. The boundaries of words and their meanings. In C.-J. N. Bailey and R.W. Shuy, (eds). New Ways of Analyzing Variation. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.