Tuba, Turkey
I suggest you use flash cards, pictures and photographs in your lessons. To find the pictures easily and economically, you can go to a second hand book shop and buy some old magazines to use their pictures. Besides this, the examples that you present in the lesson should be more familiar to students, so use popular names in your examples.For instance when you are teaching superlative forms give an example like: Bayhan is the most terrible singer or pop star. This will be funny and they can remember it easily. Wish luck to you because I know that it is difficult to teach in a high school in Turkey

Jack Stevenson, USA
I have established an English grammar website that may be helpful in some situations. The text is easy to understand. The web address is as follows iscribe.org/english

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Arun Ganapathy, India
Dear Bilgen,
Role plays, debates and even simple activities like reading recipes out and having others make it will help. Also look at info gap activities- picture differences always work.

Tim Gilroy, France
There is no reason why grammar can't be fun - students usually secretly enjoy learning rules. What is maddening about English is its inconsistent aspects, like the spelling, and the vocabulary. English Grammar is at least mechanically quite simple.The important thing is to put a grammatical structure in a context that is interesting to your students: if they agree that this is a useful function (chatting up a member of the opposite sex, ordering some food in a café, describing their experience in an interview for a job...) they will be motivated to get the grammar right. Use role-plays, pair work, games, and drills.

And, there are loads of free lesson-plans on the Internet!

Phil, Spain
A couple of tips for Bilgen.
1) Smile more when you do any work on grammar
2) Break the back of structural problems with 'Phrase of the week' on the board e.g. at start of lesson drill the sentence: "If Nihat hadn't scored the penalty, he wouldn't have been 'Man of the Match'". Get students to say this at various points in the lesson with the simple cue "Nihat". Use it in games to decide which team wins: "This one's worth 150 points: 'Nihat'". Don't let them leave at the end of the class until they have all said it perfectly etc.
3)Encourage students to "think in English" by getting them to translate difficult structures into bad "computer" Turkish -this can liven things up a little.

Good luck

Oslemcan, Turkey
You can use various pictures related to the subject you teach. And there are some books called five minute activities and language games people play. They will help you to change the boring atmosphere of the lesson.

Engin, Turkey
Teaching grammar is of course not easy especially in Turkey. The main problem is the difference between our language and English and, secondly, the number of students. First, make the pupils study the target subject.
This way they will try to know something of it and then try to use schedules, real situations from real life and minimize the rules and things like that as much as you can. After having recognised that the subject is understood, widen the subject. Try to let students make their own sentences about the subject. While making sentences please try to use subject pronouns from the classroom.