Teaching future tense: Poster making

Since the stigma of learning grammar leads to boredom, I tried to dodge from the irrelevant accusations. Hence, I tried to teach grammar in context which I thought related to the students' life. Today's topic is "I'll Stand By You". I tried putting together the grammar, topic and activity in one nice plate. These were what I did:

Set Induction:

• Before I started off the class by showing the students a video footage called "I'll Stand By You- Carrie Underwood", I reminded students to pay attention, watch and listen to the video footage attentively. 

• Once finished, I started to elicit students' response by letting them to share their feeling and thoughts after seeing that video
• To evoke the feeling and sentiment towards the topic, try to highlight some significant facts about the video or talk about the meaning behind the lyrics and the song itself. 

Introduction/practice stage:

• Project or show the lyrics on the screen. Redirect students' attention to the highlighted portion of the lyrics.

eg: I'll stand you, I'll stand by you

     I won't let anybody hurts you

• Ask the students about the meaning of I'll stand by you by relating to the video used before. Elicits some answer from them before you start to explain the use of the future tense and its functions. 
• Attached is the note to explain the form and function of future tense to my students. Of course, try to use examples that relate to the topic used (We don't want the mood and sentiment for the topic fade away just like that).
• After that,  teacher poses a question and asks students to discuss in pairs: "What will you do to help those children who are in needs?". Call a few representatives to the front to share their thoughts. In this round, students get the opportunity to practise the language learnt and teachers monitors students' practices by giving feedback). 

Owh crapppppppppppp!!  i could not upload the notes. Something wrong. I'll post later in the next entry. 

Production:

• Divide the students in group of 4 or 5 and give out the materials such as sketching canvas, colour pencil, marker pen, newspaper, scissors and glue.
• Project the instruction on the white screen and briefly explain what students should do.

e.g: "Create a poster with a message of raising help from the world community to help the children in Africa. Please include the use of future tense in your message."

• Let the students' creativity grow and do encourage them to draw something that can enhance the portrayal of the message in their poster.

Anyway, this lesson ended up successful. I was indeed so blessed with the students' spirit and motivation to learn. Although some of them made mistakes here and there, I treated the mistakes as a part of learning.

Before I forget, I'll try to post the notes on future tense in the next entry as well as the products from this lesson. It was so adorable looking at those posters which made by your students. I am inspired. hahaha.

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