1. Introduction
Grammar and Vocabulary are the two foundations of English language and they affect each other individually. Therefore, both of them should be emphasize in English language teaching. According to Greenbaum and Nelson (2002), Grammar refers to the set of rules that allow people to combine words in language into larger units. Mastering grammar well will contribute greatly to reading, writing and speaking. In grammar leaning, the student’s attitude matters. Meanwhile, the teaching methods are also the key factor for students to master well. So to some extent, the teaching method in class would affect the students’ studying of grammar. As Wu (2012) mentioned, there's no agreed-upon method of teaching English conditionals so far. Consequently, the discussion of new and personal approach of conditional sentence is going to be made in this paper.
This paper is consisted of four parts. Firstly the author would evaluate the Miss Wong’s teaching approach according to the interview from the given material. In the second part, new grammar activity with detailed procedure would be designed. Thirdly, the author would like to discuss the activity based on certain theory. And at the end of the paper, there will be some exercises as a little quiz prepared for the students at the beginning of next class.
2. Evaluation of Miss Wong’s Grammar Teaching Approach
The given material is an interview with Miss Wong who talked about teaching methods on four types of conventional sentence in Band 3 school. In her statement, she usually explains four types of conventional sentences in the first place and then gives students exercises to check whether they maser certain grammar rule. The advantage and disadvantage are both quite obvious.
2.1...
... middle of paper ...
...clauses in each one, then identify each type, using one of the four labels(factual, predictive, hypothetical and counterfactual).
Example: If Americans want change, they always vote for the challenger.(factual)
1. If the President had a serious domestic policy, it remained a big secret throughout the campaign.
2. If the President wanted to make an impact, he would announce a highway rebuilding program.
3. If the new President does not fix the economy, he won’t be popular for very long.
4. If the Democrats took the opportunity to change things, they would push ahead with a national health policy.
5. IF the challenger had focused on the economy, he would have been more successful.
6. If he hadn’t relied on his past popularity, he would have been much more aggressive.
7. If the new leader doesn’t fulfill people’s expectations, he won’t be smiling this time next year.
...onship with Congress, the public, and events that occurred all affected his chances of being reelected.
They believe that the less government the better, believing that “government run affordable health care leads to inefficiencies and can be disastrous to the nation’s health overall.” They believe that health care should be left to doctors, HMOs and insurance companies to decide and manage. However, the Democrats’ main point on health care is that it should be funded and controlled by the government for the people. They hold that all people should be able to have the assurance of health without worrying about losing coverage or going into debt. This would be most effective for the poor and elderly, those who normally would not be able to afford coverage and need it most.
Only when you correctly use these with correct punctuation, do they qualify for their specific group. The first sentence type is a simple sentence, this must contain a subject, a verb, and a complete thought; this makes it the same as an independent clause. Within a simple sentence, either you can have a compound subject or compound verb; more than two subjects and verbs, or you can have a verb phrase; the main verb plus a helping verb. The second sentence type is a compound sentence. A compound sentence has two or more Independent clauses. The three ways you have to separate these independent clauses are with: 1) A comma plus a coordinating conjunction – also known as FANBOYS. 2) One can add a semi-colon between the two independent clauses. 3) A semi-colon plus a conjunctive adverb plus a comma – the author refers to this as the one, two, three combo. The three rules when you use the semi-colon are to: 1) only use it to separate two or more independent clauses. 2) Those two independent clauses must have a clear and obvious relationship. 3) It is rarely used - ± 2-3 types per page. Also, note that when you make use of a conjunctive adverb, you must follow it with a comma. The third sentence type is a complex sentence, defined as one or more dependent clause(s) plus only one independent clause. The rule added to this is, that if the dependent clause are at the beginning of the sentence, then
partake in their preferred form of health care. Indeed it would also be a strong step
Watching President Obama change over the years, during his terms, is heartbreaking. Having so many people watching every move that you’re making is stressful. But he did an amazing job of not showing if he was worried about something, or if he was really tired. He kept everything “under control” and didn’t let everybody see that side of
...hat come along with any extended stay at a medical facility. Vice President Gore says he is in favor of “step by step” movement towards universal heath care; the same universal health care that he and President Clinton both promised to provide to all Americans 8 years ago in 1992. Since 1992, there has been an 11 million person increase in Americans without any health insurance at all. Sounds more like a step backwards than a step towards universal care for all. The only candidate that stands firmly behind a single-payer system, the only candidate who stands courageously in the destructive path of Big Business, the only candidate who is willing to take a stand, draw a line in the sand, and declare once and for all that health care is a basic innate human right is the Green Party Nominee, Ralph Nader.
Starting with Bill Clinton he did a very good job in saving the country and it’s
Healthcare reform has been on every Democratic President’s agenda for the past 20 years. In 1993, President Clinton’s proposal to try to reform health care failed miserably. In 2008, Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton campaigned vigorously on this issue. Now, President Obama is trying to get Congress to pass his Healthcare Reform Bill.
"What We Stand For Health Care." Democrats Change That Matters. Democratic National Committee, 2011. Web. 13 Oct 2011. .
The Democratic call the Affordable Healthcare Act a historic victory and the "Law of the Land," which reforms the US healthcare system by controlling healthcare costs, making healthcare more affordable, and protecting consumers from unfair insurance practices. They believe that the healthcare act was part of the American promise and that Americans should have accessible, affordable and high quality healthcare. They consider that the efforts made by the Democrat’s will aide in the security of families about knowing that they cannot lose their
This is a national accomplishment for the public health sector as they consistently advocate for the accessibility of health resources and research development to cure chronic illnesses. This accomplishment sets a precedence for future laws shaping health care management. Although struggles to uphold its validity persevered, much of the language in the law is shortcoming to the the ideal representation of a universal health insurance program. The law is highly regarded as inconsistent and unartful of various determining factors for the health care sector; one referring to the amount of funding that was included in the bill to sponsors subsidies for eligible low-income families/individuals, and second focuses on the crippling structure which prohibits states from ameliorating their Health Departments to meet the demands of the law. As far as amending pieces of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, I would focus on the need to create a more strategic plan to evaluate the financial responsibility of the federal government and the longevity of funding which is required to maintain affordable health insurance premiums and keep health insurance providers. These two parts are pivotal to consider because at the end of the five-year subsidy, if congress does not renew the federal funding, the
In recent research, similar to written language, spoken language has been looked at through various aspects. one of the major concerns surrounding spoken language is the grammatical form of this discourse. Biber, Johansson, Leech, Condrad & Finegan (1999) states that the same English grammar can be applied to both spoken and written language however research shows that the two use these grammatical features differently.
Sekelj and Rigo (2011) stated that there are three phases of learning the English language. The first phase is the pupils of Year 1 to Year 4, where in this phase, pupils are preferably do a lot of mechanical drilling and practicing some patterns of grammatical features which occur in the context of dialogue that are related to their real-life without any metalinguistic explanation in order to allow them to participate orally and physically as much as possible in dialogues, role playing and dramatizing. It is because, in this stage, it is important to make them conscious of their progress and increasing their motivation to use the language. Teacher should use a variety of activities to teach grammar such as by using songs, riddles, games and stories because it could be very helpful and an efficient ways in teaching grammar as what had suggested by Long (2000) where this FonF approach is effective because it is learner-centered and tune to the learners’ internal syllabus. According to Sekelj and Rigo (2011), Vilke (1977) said that, at the early age, the unconscious acquisition process is superior to the learning one due to the child’s cognitive development. Next, the second phase is Year 5 to Year 6 where in this stage, grammar start to be taught explicitly but with simple and clear explanation and awareness of accuracy of grammar structure should be
In this paper, a critique is carried out on Miss. Wong’s teaching methods from the perceptive of pros and cons of teaching effectiveness, and then pedagogical implications are drawn from this part. To explore a more effective approach in teaching conditionals, a design of a grammar task will be the core part with a discussion on it.
As we can see from the interview, her approach follows this kind of sequence: explaining the grammar rules, doing exercises, checking the answers and elaborating the grammar rules again when students encounter difficulties. In short, the grammar instruction has been preformed as the three Ps— present, practice, and produce (Larsen-Freeman, 2009). As Miss Wong’s students, they are expected to master them by understanding the grammar rules without considering the c...