This is an easy way to imbed a grammar activity within any piece of literature, fiction or nonfiction. 

I have used this activity with students of grades 3 and up, who have already had some exposure with apostrophes, but are needing a review of the general concept. 

Discuss the different uses of apostrophes with your students and give examples of each type.
1.  to make contractions
2.  to show ownership (singular)
3.  to show ownership (plural)

Next, I assign a section to read or we begin reading together.  Whenever we spot a word with an apostrophe, we stop quickly and write the word in a chart I have given them.  The chart has the following categories across the top:

Contraction (can’t) (it’s) Write as two words
Singular Possessive (Joe’s) (book’s)
Plural Possessive (girls’) (animals’)

As the students read, they are asked to sort out the apostrophe examples they find into one of these categories.  They get practice taking apart contractions, and deciding whether the possessive they have found is singular or plural.  Once students become more comfortable with it, they can do this activity as they read independently. 

We found it’s amazing how often apostrophes are used and how important they are in our writing.

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• International Phonetic Alphabet
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International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system to phonetically represent all sounds in human speech across all known languages.

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The International Phonetic Association - IPA chart from this site

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CLT stands for Communicative Language Teaching and began it’s development in the early 1980s and is the current industry standard.

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About

Language interference (also known as L1 interference) is the effect of language learners’ first language on their production of the language they are learning. The effect can be on any aspect of language: grammar, vocabulary, accent, spelling and so on. It is most often discussed as a source of errors (negative transfer), although where the relevant feature of both languages is the same, it results in correct language production (positive transfer). The greater the differences between the two languages, the more negative the effects of interference are likely to be. It will inevitably occur in any situation where someone has not mastered a second language.

Language interference often results in an English distictive to a learners first language. it is often easy to determine a non-native English speakers first language by the mistakes they commonly make in syntax, word choice, and especially pronunciation.

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Category:Teaching -> CALL

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• about
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about

Moodle is a server software package that enables teachers and schools to offer content on the internet. Moodle can be used as an internet only course delivery vehicle or it can be used in conjunction with classroom time; that is commonly referred to as blended learning.

uses in EFL teaching

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CALL can be used with EFL teaching in many ways. Students can be brought into a computer lab and use programs for reinforcing or learning language.

Other methods include the use of blogs, moodle, or other web based software.

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