English Grammar

Describe three reasons why grammar is important.

Answer explanation

There are so many reasons why grammar is important.

They include elements such as:

- Professionalism

- Care and consideration

- Legitimacy

- Meaning making

- Share ideas

- Clear communication

A (a)   is at the beginning of a word.

The root word 'aero' means what

• area

• air

• bubble

• space

What is a grammatical rule that is appropriate in your culture but might not be in others? Be as specific as possible.

Hint: An example might be something like the English use of the word "literally"

The root word 'frag' means?

• Fraction

• Section

• Part

• Break

Draw /write on the board something that would engage students walking into a classroom who are about to participate in a grammar lesson.

Write as many words as possible that have the suffix 'able'.

How do you feel about learning new words knowing that, most of the time, they can be broken up into prefixes, root words, and suffixes?

• It will be much easier to understand them when I think of them as broken up like this.

• I am still nervous about learning all the prefixes, root words, and suffixes.

• Even though I know lots of prefixes and suffixes, I don't know enough root words.

• I don't think breaking them up gives me much confidence.

How do you feel about using the part of the words you know to inform you about a word you don't know?

For example, you don't know what 'biological' means, but you know that 'bio' means 'life', so it has something to do with life.

• Sometimes all the parts around the unknown word still don't help.

• Most of the time the parts around the unknown word should help.

• I feel confident in working out new words from their parts.

• I don't feel I can use parts of words to help me understand new words.

To what extent did this website lesson engage you (make you feel happy, interested, enthusiastic and learn in a focused way)?

• It was great!

• It was good.

• It was alright.

• I didn't enjoy it.