Insight’s methods feature fresh perspectives. Using the same old approaches is often the way to go, but they don’t work every time, and not with every student. Whenever you need to try a new approach in order to reach every student, you don’t need to develop alternate methods on your own; take advantage of the methods in these videos!
They are condensed for the sake of demonstrating methods to teachers, but students need more information and interaction. Insider Access helps with that.
While they can benefit from viewing the videos directly, students learn most effectively through teachers who know the material well and can connect with their learners.
Continue using whatever syllabus and books you already have in place; Insight's videos and other resources simply help you explain grammar topics more easily.
Watch a video yourself to learn our method for a given grammar topic.
Open the corresponding slideshow so that you can bring the visuals of the video into your classroom.
Consider how you'd apply your own teaching style in conjunction with the Insights method.
Think about moments along the way when you can do comprehension checks with your students.
Download one or two printouts for that topic for you to share with your students.
Arrange some practice material you can squeeze between the content, along with some activity that follows.
Present the lesson to your class, going at a slower pace appropriate for your students' level and making room for questions along the way.
Complex Sentences is largely a combination of the Modifier Clauses series and relevant topics from Indirect Speech and Unreal Mood.
Most of our methods are all about either sentence structure or usage. We touch on forms of individual words less often, and we hardly ever address infection or pronunciation. All five of these are important, but form and pronunciation tend to be more straightforward, so we let teachers decide for themselves how to present those. We dedicate our resources to the trickier stuff.
We mostly use American English, although most ESOL books primarily use British English. We do this because our founder and lead content creator is American, so it’s what comes natural to him. Just think of this as an excuse to teach your students some of the differences between British English and American English.
Most of the time when we say ‘noun’, we actually mean ‘noun phrase’, which typically includes determiners (like articles, possessives, and quantifiers) and sometimes adjectives. We often do the same with verb strings; auxiliary verbs, ‘not’, and sometimes adverbs are included when we say ‘verb’.
Within the framework of a sentence, combining all those individual words into one block is generally helpful, as they act together to serve a single purpose.
Our videos feature selective colored text. Colors stand out and help students know what to pay attention to. We’re rather consistent with our color choices so that students learn to expect certain things from certain colors. We recommend using this same technique yourself. Read our article to learn more.
all you need to know about a series and how its topics relate to one another, as well as what to expect for each individual video
the appropriate language level your students should be at for each topic
the related topics, terms, and other ideas your students should be familiar with before diving into a given topic
teaching techniques, tools, and other tips that may be particularly helpful for each topic
Short end-of-lesson activities so that students can engage in free practice for each topic
one or two projects in which students get to incorporate the topic into English production in a fun an creative way
each topic's collection of exceptions, extensions, alternatives, examples, and other details that couldn't be fit into the video
visual representations or easy reminders of the topics that can be handed out to students or placed as posters on the classroom walls
the visuals from Insights's videos at your fingertips, so you can control the pace and explain it your own way
the definitions of various terms that Insights uses to explain topics and methods
additional topics for each series, some of which may shed more light on how the core topics of that series work or fit together
the details of tertiary grammar points that feed into the core topics (e.g. Helping Verbs, Past Participle, Subordinating Conjunctions, etc.)
all you need to know about a series and how its topics relate to one another, as well as what to expect for each individual video
the appropriate language level your students should be at for each topic
the related topics, terms, and other ideas your students should be familiar with before diving into a given topic
each topic's collection of exceptions, extensions, alternatives, examples, and other details that couldn't be fit into the video
visual representations or easy reminders of the topics that can be handed out to students or placed as posters on the classroom walls
the visuals from Insights's videos at your fingertips, so you can control the pace and explain it your own way
teaching techniques, tools, and other tips that may be particularly helpful for each topic
Short end-of-lesson activities so that students can engage in free practice for each topic
one or two projects in which students get to incorporate the topic into English production in a fun an creative way
the definitions of various terms that Insights uses to explain topics and methods
additional topics for each series, some of which may shed more light on how the core topics of that series work or fit together
the details of tertiary grammar points that feed into the core topics (e.g. Helping Verbs, Past Participle, Subordinating Conjunctions, etc.)
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