The main purpose of the presentation is to demonstrate that teaching grammar could be made fun and attractive for both students and teachers. Interesting and motivating ideas for all age groups and learners of different levels will be presented. As language teacher, we can make grammar clear and memorable using the suggested activities in this collection. For both children and adults, becoming literate necessarily requires that they learn how to decode language from a patterned series of squiggles on paper - the written word. Learning how to read is a complex task that involves the successful convergence of many different underlying yet related cognitive and language skills.
Phonological awareness is one such mental substrate.
It can be defined as an individual's understanding of different ways that oral language can be divided into smaller components and manipulated. While phonological awareness is not a prerequisite for achieving high levels of literacy in an alphabetic orthography like that of English, it nevertheless allows the use of phonological processing in order to analyze unfamiliar words. The language teaching community has been in a long debate concerning the best methods to employ in the teaching of reading. Most teachers have come to the consensus that an effective reading program should combine elements of both whole language and phonics - to mention just the polar extremes of methodology. Regardless, teaching phonological awareness allows learners to become aware of the formal structure of words in order to benefit from any kind of formal reading instruction.