The PowerPoint presentation of meeting#1 Basic English Grammar. The course module and additional learning resources can be looked up at http://basicenglishgrammar.weebly.com

1. Basic English Grammar For
English Language Learners
Meeting #1
Hery Yanto The
English 3.0 Series, Summer 2012
June 25, 2012

2. AGENDA
(1)
Course
Overview

3. PART I
Course Overview
• What is Basic
English Grammar?
• How do you learn?
• What can you
achieve from the
course?
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4. Course
Overview • The course synchronous sessions, WizIQ
Virtual Classes, and the course website,
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• The enrollment in this course is fully
voluntary. Participants/learners can join
and resign from the course at any time.
• Participants should follow the term and
condition of WizIQ and Weebly.
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5. Course
Overview • Present in the synchronous sessions is not
required. Because of the time differences may
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are encouraged to attend the synchronous
sessions. Present in the live sessions enables
participants to interact immediately with the
facilitator and other participants.
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6. Course
Overview • Learning modules, consist of additional
resources, assignments, practice tests, and
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to accomplish all the modules. Participants
should file a request of the certificate to the
facilitator after accomplishing the course. The
facilitator will verify the accomplishment.
Participants will receive a PDF copy of the
certificate emailed to them not later than 14
business days. .

7. The Lesson
• Course Overview, Language Learning • Possessive Adjective – The textbook
& Technology, Possessive Adjective sample chapter (Download here:
• Using English-English Chapter 2)
Dictionary, Simple Present Tense • Positive and Negative Sentences
• Spoken & Written English, Wh- • Wh-Questions
Questions • Part of Speech I: Verb
• Past Tense, Social Networking & • Part of Speech II: Noun
Language Learning • Tense: Simple Present, Past
• Varieties Use of English, Present Tense, and Present Progressive
Progressive • Vocabularies and Dictionary
• Part of Speech Part I, Review: • Preposition
Dictionary
• Part of Speech Part II, Preposition
Part I
• Preposition Part II, Vocabularies Weebly/
• Introduction to Sentence Structure Course Website
• Review and Course Evaluation
Wiziq

8. Course Components
Course Website: Contact Facilitator:
http://basicenglishgr herythe@hotmail.co.uk
ammar.weebly.com
or Skype: herythe
Virtual Class:
http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/884889-
basic-english-grammar-for-ell

9. PART II
LANGUAGE LEARNING & TECHNOLOGY
Ben Zimmer from the
New York times
said, “Language will
become more
technologically
mediated.”
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10. Language Learning & Technology
Electronic and Digital Media
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earnfrenchvideo, Jeffryh
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11. Language Learning & Technology
Virtual World, Social Networking, Games,
& Online-Distance Learning
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Andreas Viklund, Joe
Dale, Eliane Alhadeff

12. Language Learning & Technology,
What is this mean?
• Technologies support the language learning
process.
• Technologies enhance the quality of language
learning.
• Technologies expand the opportunity for
people in everywhere to exchange, share, and
learn language.
• Technologies promote cross-cultural
interaction and develop cross-cultural
understanding through language learning.

13. PART III
POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
I’m Hendry Johnson.
I am a college
professor. My wife is
Joanna Cooper. She is
a nurse. I have one
son. His name is
Rouser Johnson.
Rouser is a seventh
The Johnson’s Family grade student.
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14. REVIEW
• Adjectives: words that describe nouns or
pronouns
– Which: this chair, my computer
– How many: a dozen egg, two cup of coffee
– What kind: the red hair, that white car
• Pronouns: words that take the place of nouns
– Yuandi will help you.
– He will help you.

15. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
Subject Possessive Examples
Pronouns Adjectives
I My I use my sister’s car.
You Your You like your new car, don’t you?
He His He invites his friends to the party.
She Her She loves her son very much.
It Its The kangaroo is harvested for its
meat.
We Our We enjoy our party.
They Their They went to Cambodia to visit
their grant parents.

16. POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
• Rule 1: Verbs follow the subject pronouns.
– I am, You are, We love
• Rule 2: Possessive adjective comes before a noun or an
adjective + noun.
– My sister’s car, her suitcase, his lawyer
• Rule 3: Possessive adjectives are used with singular and
plural nouns.
– His friends or his friend, my boys or my boy
• Rule 4: For an animal or a thing, the possessive
adjective “its” is used, but for a pet, “his” or “her” is
used.
– My fish’s name is Swimmy.

17. Try This Exercise!
I ___ Gow Chin Suan. My family and I
moved to the U.S. in 2001. I have two
brothers and one sister. My older
brother has a cat. ___ cat’s name is
Tjutju. My younger brother has a fish.
He put ___ fish’s tank in the living
room. My sister doesn’t like pet, but
she loves to play piano. She bought
___ own piano last year. My dad help
___ to brought the piano back from
the store. My sister is a good piano
player. She won a competition two
months ago.
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18. Gow Chin Suan’s Story
I ___ Gow Chin Suan. My family and I
moved to the U.S. in 2001. I have two
brothers and one sister. My older
brother has a cat. ___ cat’s name is
Tjutju. My younger brother has a fish.
He put ___ fish’s tank in the living
room. My sister doesn’t like pet, but
she loves to play piano. She bought
___ own piano last year. My dad help
Answer:
am, his, his, her, h ___ to brought the piano back from
er the store. My sister is a good piano
player. She won a competition two
months ago.
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Choo

19. Independent Study
• Possessive Adjectives by Dan Fulmer
– http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zz18mdf.htm
• Grammar Exercise – Possessive Adjectives by
myenglishpages
– http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/gr
ammar-exercise-possessive-adjectives.php
• Possessive Adjectives by ToLearnEnglish
– http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-
english-2/exercise-english-54502.php

20. Closing Notes
• Send an email to the facilitator for enrolling to
the course. Write your full name and your
country of origin. For example: Ahmad Faisal,
Nigeria.
• The facilitator email address is
herythe@hotmail.co.uk
• Star to learn from the course website:
http://basicenglishgrammar.weebly.com
• Help us to improve the lesson/course by filling
out a survey here: BEG Survey