They don't need me so desperately anymore. That's also the reason why it's much easier to convince my students to talk with themselves. It becomes a logical step-by-step process of putting puzzle pieces into their rightful place. Using the language ceases to be some voodoo magic. That's why, after taking a look at the cheat sheet a couple of times, every student becomes intimately familiar with it. Grammar tells us where the given piece should be placed.
"What the hell is this dude getting money for?"īut the thing is that building a sentence is like doing puzzles.
#Cheat sheets words of wonder how to#
Whenever one of my students doesn't know how to create some grammar construction, I always refer them to their cheat sheets. Having just one piece of paper that provides you with essential information about the languages can help you become a more effective independent learner. But somehow, this story is the one that stuck with me. I've had a chance to see more of such success stories with adults. But again - 10 hours of dedicated learning beat four years of education. He still needs to resort to the grammar cheat sheet now and then. He got it, I didn't even expect it, but he got it!Įleven hours into our English adventure, he is already able to build basic sentences in 4 tenses he knows. However, after explaining the most basic English and writing them on his grammar cheat sheet, something seemingly impossible happened. Of course, he couldn't even use the words he knew in a sentence. After four damn years of his formal English education, he couldn't say, well, anything. Our first lesson revealed that his collective vocabulary amounted to about 40-70 words. I am sure that most parents can relate to! Anyway, Adrian is ten years old and a really bright kid. A grammar cheat sheet should be an indispensable part of your learning arsenal.īefore I dive into some of the main reasons why you should embrace grammar cheat sheets, I want to share with you a story about my youngest student. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner in language learning or a mean linguistic son-of-a-gun. And there is one object, almost the artifact, that can grant you this kind of perspective. Only when you take a few steps back and leave the maze, you begin to see things differently. You turn to your right, and you get kicked in the head. You take a left turn, and you get punched in the stomach. Everything seems to be so random and chaotic. One look at any enormous grammar book sends shivers down my spine.īecause opening a grammar book is like teleporting yourself into the middle of a language maze.
But somehow, it doesn't entice you to lay your hands on this filthy creature. You will be bestowed with the knowledge and wisdom of the language of your choice. You know that if you rub its butt long enough, it will grant you your wish. Or grammar books to be more precise! These vademecums seem to adapt the form of slimy, leprosy-ridden yet magical gnome. I love how language learners usually approach grammar.
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