jolanar
New member
- Joined
- Jan 28, 2012
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- Arabic
- Home Country
- Algeria
- Current Location
- Algeria
Dear Sir or Madam
I am an Algerian middle-school teacher of English and it's just my third year of doing so, two years as a substitute teacher and this year as a trainee one. I teach the four levels (the first, the second, the third and the fourth) and I have got a problem with teaching the pupils of the fourth year the write it up step whether with cues or without. The pupils are sorely weak: they don't remember most of the vocabulary taught during the previous three yrears or even the vocabulary taught during this year they cannot costruct simple sentences, they forget the ''s'' of present simple and many other weakenesses concerning punctuation, past participles meanings of the most used verbs....
In order to inhance the pupil's writing capacity I want to try some steps which are:
1- To allow the use of Arabic - English dictionnary so that pupils overcome the want they have with vocabulary especially if the cues are not given
2-To use the cues in constructing simple sentences then to add modifiers if they are needeed.
3- To stress the subject verb agreement,
4- To link sentences according to the ideas (reason or consequence or addition or enumeration...) .
5- To read aloud the whole paragraph many times as away of revising it.
Till now I haven’t had a try because I’m not sure about the effectiveness of these steps.
So please would you help me? I really want my pupils to write good English.
Thank you very much
I am an Algerian middle-school teacher of English and it's just my third year of doing so, two years as a substitute teacher and this year as a trainee one. I teach the four levels (the first, the second, the third and the fourth) and I have got a problem with teaching the pupils of the fourth year the write it up step whether with cues or without. The pupils are sorely weak: they don't remember most of the vocabulary taught during the previous three yrears or even the vocabulary taught during this year they cannot costruct simple sentences, they forget the ''s'' of present simple and many other weakenesses concerning punctuation, past participles meanings of the most used verbs....
In order to inhance the pupil's writing capacity I want to try some steps which are:
1- To allow the use of Arabic - English dictionnary so that pupils overcome the want they have with vocabulary especially if the cues are not given
2-To use the cues in constructing simple sentences then to add modifiers if they are needeed.
3- To stress the subject verb agreement,
4- To link sentences according to the ideas (reason or consequence or addition or enumeration...) .
5- To read aloud the whole paragraph many times as away of revising it.
Till now I haven’t had a try because I’m not sure about the effectiveness of these steps.
So please would you help me? I really want my pupils to write good English.
Thank you very much