Tuesday, May 31, 2011

In betweens

Hello,
                My name is Wintermute and this is Dumbr. But who I am is not important, tell me who you are. Today we will talk about how to teach the term “in between”.

                It’s funny, this is one thing that can be taught so many different ways and manners but at the same time students seem to have a hard time grasping its concept. Mostly because no one ever taught us as English speakers what in between meant, we just sort of grew up with it, we have always known. We are going to try and mimic that with our foreign students.

Get three transparent cups, fill one up 75%, then 50%, and last 25%, relatively speaking of course, because really who cares. Do a number of demonstrations showing which cup should be in the middle.  So now they have the spoken lecture, the visual aid, but now we need the hands on practice. So let them do it, have them fill cups up and give them directions or commands, like put which cup where. For the older kids take it a step further and have them do it on a piece of paper, and then have them write down which one is in between.  For the more audible students, have them explain their answer.

                I hope I was able to show one of the many ways to teach the term “in between”, and I hope you find a method that works for you and your class. Back to grading my 1600 midterms, adiós!

Your teacher,
Wintermute  

14 comments:

  1. have fun grading those midterms! (:

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  2. Seems like a good way to get the concept across

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  3. 1600? thats not much... nah just kiddin :)

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  4. brilliant way of teaching, like always!

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  5. And I thought writing one midterm was bad. Grading 1600 would be terrible. (You're probably over exagerating the number but if you are not... Have fun! lol)

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  6. I am not over exaggerating. I have 800 oral exams, and 800 writing exams. and then a speech contest n Friday.

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  7. grading midterms must be insane

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  8. Wow, that's really weird. Seems like a easy term for us.

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  9. I hate prepositions :) Good luck with the grading!

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  10. I hope you take it seriously grading so many people, for you it's just tedious work, but for each and every kid it's something very important!
    Nice post btw.

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  11. sounds like they need another english teacher or else you're gonna break! ): poor oppa.

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  12. @patti, thats the hardest part. some of these girls write these huge long essays, and I know they actually care about their English and improving it. So I have to sit there and grade every word carefully.

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