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A An and The are the articles that we use in english. Teaching articles in a learner friendly way is realy a difficult task for those teachers who do not plan properly. I think every teaching item can be taught through activities. ABL way realy helps learners to recall what they have learnt for a long time.
One day I was just reading some lines from a passage from 7 grade textbook, suddenly something happened and we got deviated from that lesson to the use of articles.Because many of my students did not know it properly. We went on discussion but the next day when I asked the same to my learners , they were commiting silly mistakes. That made them so sad and me too. They were sad because they were not attentive when that part was taught to them by the previous teacher and I was feeling ashamed for not being able to teach them in some new way. Then I realised they won't learn better through lecture method but through an activity.
I used an activity for taking review of 7th standard students about articles. I searched various videos on YouTube regarding Use of article in english gramar lesson. After a lot of brainstorming, finally I remembered a very simple activity that I had conducted once in a teacher training.
I devided students into two teams. Given them instructions of siting and playing the activity. Aloted scorer for recording the scores. I explained them the rules. Also penalty for wrong behaviour.It was so funny activity. I demonstrated the activity so well that no participants had any doubt in their mind. Even though I asked some instructions and concept checking questions too.
There were lots of running and jumping, so students did not actually realise that they were being evaluated for their understanding the use of articles. Students were playing naturally. They had no pressure of being examined. They just knew playing the game as they always do. But throughout this activity, though not so long students understood the use of appropriate article. As many of their friends were helping their teammates and rectifying their mistakes in a very joyful mannar.
I decided to keep myself silent. Because I knew learners can improve themselves more easily rather a teacher. And as there was a competition between two teams students were eager to score more and get patting from me. No doubt all learners deserved that.
After that activity I asked them,"Can we sit back in the classroom and learn articles now?" The students said "Now what is left , sir we learnt everything about articles" very enthusiastically. It was real learning for me and my learners.
This experience made me more confident about using language games in and out of the classroom. It also pushed me more closed to my learners. I also learnt to manage the time for activity in the lesson plans. I think that day I understood the best way to evaluate learners not by exams but by joyful tasks. This is what Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation expects from all our teachers.
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