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Grammar Teaching Via Flipped Classroom

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     Hello, my dear readers!      Do you remember my previous post about flipped vocabulary video? This time we repeated the same concept by creating a flipped grammar video. Our topic is "illnesses" and our video aims to teach how to use "should" in a sentence. uscupstate      At the beginning of the video, we give brief information about the video. Then, the instructive part of the video starts. We show affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences and teach how to use them.       After this part, our doctor-patient dialogues come. We shot some videos with our families to make our students see real-life situations. Then, showed a game that our students can play at home with their families. Finally, we told them about their homework. Here's the video!      I loved creating flipped classroom videos. There are lots of things a teacher can do. We had so much fun while recording the videos and decorating th...

CAUTION! THIS CLASSROOM IS UPSIDE DOWN!

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     Hello, my dear readers!      Have you ever tried flipping the classroom? Flipped Classroom means creating a video lesson for the students so that they can watch it at home. Then, you can spend more time on the classroom activities and target language use. In the traditional method, we waste our valuable and limited classroom time for introducing and lecturing. Even though the teacher needs to spend extra time creating these videos, flipping the classroom helps to catch the students' attention. Young learners need to be active in the class and the traditional lecturing method prevents the beneficial learning process. egitimtrend      I and Bengisu created a flipped classroom vocabulary video about movies for 5th-grade students. They will watch our video and complete 3 enjoyable exercises. Our video contains an introduction to the movie genres, a dialogue with our siblings about movies and an exercise introducti...