For my second session with my four adult ESL students, we continued to build on their understanding of the prepositions we learned last class. However, in this lesson, I taught them the construction “There is/are”. They learned that it is a phrase used to show the existence of something and that the verb in the phrase must agree with the amount of things that the sentence says exists. I contrasted this structure with a similar one found in Spanish, “Hay”. I liked the activity. It was easy and intuitive for both me and my students. The diagrammed illustration also provided a lot of linguistic support which gave me more time to concentrate on the new grammatical construction rather than spend class time providing translations. Since many of the vocabulary terms were words they already knew, and there were relatively few new terms, I asked them to use new vocabulary to practice using it.
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