During our semminar classes we were supposed

to create grammar activities useing Legos

How to teach pronunciation &

grammar.

Teaching tenses by

Lego blocks

He is going to cross the street.

He is crossing the street now.

He crossed the street.

Teacher let students create scene (or teacher prepare a lego stage), after that activity students describe things useing tensens. It is some examples.

T: What the knight is doing?

Ss: He is riding by a horse.

T: What he did one hour ago?

Ss: He rided by a horse.

Use a drill

Teacher can use lego poeple, cars, planes, even doors or windows to teach tenses.

Students can describe a scene.

Create a story. (Actors-lego)

Imagination gives students new way of thinking.

Working with stress

Students read the text aloud. After they work in some sentences. Teacher show by Lego students differents way of stress in the same sentence and ask them of the meaning.

Eg. I’ll ring you next WEEK.

I’ll RING you next week.(=I won’t come and see you)

Special stress

Teacher or students prepare a scene eg. a restaurant.

Teacher prepare a suitable dialogues. Examples:

- So that’s two coffees, a beef sandwich, and a tomato soup...

- No, a chicken sandwich.

- Sorry, sir ...

- Yes, sir?

- A small mushroom pizza, please.

- Okay.

-No, make that a large mushroom pizza.

-Certainly, sir ...

Students are asked to look at the lines in italics. They should underline the words that are specialy stressed and they say why they think this happens in this particular conversation.

Students practice the dialogues useing lego’s people to make some kind of role-play.

Students can now use their own stages and prepare similar dialogues to demonstrate stress.