Hey guys I was wondering if you guys have looked through the book and found many gramatical errors? I decided to review my books because as I was helping with the tests I realized some of the material in the book was either gramatically wrong or just sounded awkward. Now I'm not great with grammar, but I was hoping some of you would be able to help me explain why some of these things are wrong?
These are the ones I found in the Grade three book (orange)

Pg. 87 "Probably, you felt stress." {You probably felt stress} Sounds awkward to me.
Pg. 113 "Through all the tears and smiles, our hearts were full to have helped build the houses. {Through all the tears and smiles, we still felt happy to have helped build the houses.} The phrase "our hearts were full" seems misplaced.
Pg. 130 "After a while, I began to understand what people was saying..." {After a while, I began to understand what people were saying...} This one is pretty straight forward, were= plural, was = singular, with the exception of the subjunctive mood.
Pg. 133 "I met here in my swimming class when I was 10. It is Mrs. Brown who has made...." {It was Mrs. Brown how made swimming....} Might be a little nitpicky here but they're talking about a role model they met when they were ten, shouldn't it stay in the past tense when speaking about her?
Pg. 202 "People are trying to reduce desert spread this way. If we didn't take good care of the environment, desert spread would get worse." {If we don't take good care....} Tense shift.

Sorry if this is posted on the wrong forum, but I figured since we are all using the same books and presumably running into the same problem come test time it'd be good to share these.   :)

I spotted most of these in a casual first glance at the book. Thanks for posting what you found; I agree with everything. I saw that the authors have PhDs from big-name American universities but it looks like they should have still consulted native speakers!

Quote from: Joltz on May 15, 2012, 01:48:22 PM

Hey guys I was wondering if you guys have looked through the book and found many gramatical errors? I decided to review my books because as I was helping with the tests I realized some of the material in the book was either gramatically wrong or just sounded awkward. Now I'm not great with grammar, but I was hoping some of you would be able to help me explain why some of these things are wrong?
These are the ones I found in the Grade three book (orange)

Thanks for sharing. In my book, there is no mistake on page 130. On my front book cover, it says "2010.7.30" on the top right corner. Maybe our editions are different.

I have the "was" mistake in my book and my front cover is the same "2010.7.30". Publisher flukes? Idk.

Hey all,

Thanks, as always, for all your hard work.

I teach the 'Sounds' section of this textbook in addition to the key phrases and I like to use songs as a way of illustrating the different sounds. I am having a tough time finding a song that illustrates the sound from Grade 3 Lesson 4 (ou / ow - about, count, sound / brown, cow, town)
If you have any ideas I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Thanks. This is great. You are a lifesaver.

Also check out these threads from last year for Lessons 1-6 material.

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,4935.280.html

What do you guys do about worksheets? I just got to my school last week and they told me it will take 2-3 days to print out large numbers of worksheets. However, I need them for tomorrow's class. I guess I just have to prepare everything well in advance...

My school's printing dude can usually get them done in one day. I get him to make copies of the textbook fill-in-the-blanks for each grade. If I make my own worksheet though, I just photo copy them on my own as I need them.. since I modify them for low, medium and high level classes.

Grade 1 - chapter 5
Grade 2 - chapter 5 (with angry birds game)

Both lessons cover the speaking activities section in the book. I am using the medium level fill-in-the-blank sheets to go along with the cd/book.

Grade 1 finishes with the sentence auction game (thanks to DevilMogum)
Grade 2 finishes with angry birds (several pics also thanks to DM)

@MeLLow: I liked your Kim Yuna dialogue! Have used it in my lesson too. Thanks.

2nd Grade Lesson 5A

I couldn't think of a good way to cover both, so am breaking lesson 5 in half. I'm only covering "Do you know how to...." this week and I'll do "I've decided to...." next week.

Grammar intro --> Book work (speaking) --> 'Find your friend' game

Will be teaching this lesson tomorrow and will let you know how the game at the end goes.

5/23 EDIT:

The original game didn't work that well with my classes ( the kids all wrote sentences that were so obvious to guess), so I've tweaked it to something that's been much better. All attached files have been updated.

My lesson for grade 3 lesson 5. Not teaching any grade ones or two's this week (Assa!!) obviously planning to do the speaking part from the book as well. I'm feeling a bit homesick so decided to use South African money for the currency in the game. so this game will probably only be of value to other South Africans.

Hey everyone.

My school has been away on a trip the past 3 days so I haven't started lesson 5 yet.
I'm going to wait till next week so all my classes start at the same time.

So I'm going to teach an extra lesson on shopping.

It's straight forward. Just a quick review of the last class and some info on paying.
It then goes into the Price is Right game, which I found last year. I have changed a lot of the items in it and all items and prices are up to date.

If you're still on lesson 4 or want something to do for a review over the next few weeks then feel free to have a look.

Enjoy the rest of the week and have a great 3 day weekend^^

Great work as always lock stock.

If anyone has any thoughts or ideas on Lesson 5 (possibly even a part 2), that would be great, would love to get finished with planning before the long weekend!!  ;)