iPod made me venture into the technological unknown and in the midst of the mess, I stumbled upon many many many podcasts and few have proven to be entertaining and useful. Grammar Girl is such one and I genuinely believe that their 4-7 minutes voice clips of grammar tips and trivia may invigorate the otherwise plain ol' ways of delivering the materials to our saccharine sweet students.
1. How can I modify and use her ingenious grammar mini-lessons? Alongside process-writing!
2. Can the chosen sites be used as stand alone lessons? If not, what should they be combined with? Refer to Q1
3. Who are the sites suitable for? E.g. Sec 2 exp? NA? Sec 2 students onwards and from all 3 streams with basic knowledge of grammar but motivated Sec 1s will do too.
4. What would be their level of proficiency in the language? Bare minimum for the podcasts are quite colloquial. Er, They should be able to construct a simple grammatical sentence?
5. How would the sites be beneficial for them? The sites would enlighten them and make for entertaining education.
6. What are the LOs that would be achieved at the end of enacting / utilising these sites in your planned lesson? Hmm. I'll get back to this question soon after I ponder the possible answers.
O right and the Grammar Girl (for better writing)'s URL is
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/default.aspx
You can access it off iTunes' Podcasts and once you have downloaded the file, you can find the transcript under 'lyrics'.
The students now have a reason to listen to their mp3s in class.
Well..just this English class.
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