Jules TP-8

I met with Jae earlier this week for some more English practice. She tends to hang out a lot with her Korean friends (speaking Korean of course), so she said just spending time with me is very helpful. We spent nearly the entire hour talking about article adjectives (a, an, and the), which are completely absent from a number of languages like Korean and Arabic.

I had prepared several worksheets to go over, including some notes on usage and a couple of quizzes. How did you all go about teaching these pesky little words? I'm not sure about you, but I had a pretty hard time coming up with general rules except for a few like "Rivers require an article but lakes do not", and "Usually when the verb is "to like", there is no article because the object is a general concept". We spent most of the time going over each question on the quizzes so that she'd be exposed to a variety of examples. In many cases she knew the right answer but didn't really know why it was true. For example, "I don't go to theatre/the theatre very often". The theatre is a general place, which would usually indicate that no article is needed, but here, we use one. Any tips you all could give me on teaching articles would be greatly appreciated!