ELT Grammar Book
An Instructor-Friendly Guide for English Language Teachers
Published on 1. October 2021
618 pages
978-0-86647-541-9 (ISBN)
Description
Who says a grammar guide has to be boring? If you''re looking for a resource to help you understand and teach English grammar but don''t want the typical compendium of lifeless rules and charts, The ELT Grammar Book, 2nd Edition is for you! In each chapter, author Richard Firsten...
- entertains you through comics, history, and his folksy narrative style;- engages you in active learning through reflection questions and exercises;
- makes the grammar clear through teacher-friendly explanations and examples;
- helps you process and retain the material with summaries of the core points;
- offers you suggestions for dealing with troublesome issues as well as teaching tips for each grammar topic;
- and provides online chapter supplements at ELTgrammar.com.
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Michael C. Berman | Richard Firsten | Eileen Cotter
The ELT Grammar Book
An Instructor-Friendly Guide for English Language Teachers
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03/2021
2nd Edition
Pro Lingua Learning
€56.00
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Sources for the Quotes that Appear under Chapter and Section Titles
- Contents
- 1 Word Order: "Throw Mama from the train a kiss."
- The Basics
- Adverbs of Frequency (How often?)
- Basic Question Making
- Teaching Tips: The Why's and the How's
- Teaching Tips
- 2 Nouns, Articles, Quantifiers, and Adjectives: "By the light of the big, bright, beautiful, silvery full moon"
- Nouns
- Indefinite Articles
- The Definite Article
- Quantifiers
- Adjectives
- Teaching Tips
- 3 The Presents: "These are the times that try men's souls."
- The Present Progressive
- The Simple Present
- The Present Perfect
- The Present Perfect Progressive
- Teaching Tips
- 4 The Pasts: "What's done is done."
- The Simple Past
- The Past Progressive
- The Past Perfect
- The Past Perfect Progressive
- The Expression Used To
- Teaching Tips
- 5 The Futures: "Que será, será ."
- The Present Progressive
- The Simple Present
- The Future with Be Going To
- The Simple Future (Will)
- The Future with Be About To
- The Future Perfect
- The Future Progressive
- Teaching Tips
- 6 Prepositions: "There's a frog on a log in a hole at the bottom of the sea."
- Literal (Physical) Meanings
- Figurative/Idiomatic Meanings
- The Prepositional Bane of Banes: At
- Some Teaching Strategies
- Post-posed Prepositions
- Teaching Tips
- 7 Genitives: "Mice's and men's best-laid plans" "The best-laid plans of mice and men"
- The -s Genitive
- Group Genitives
- The Of-Genitive
- Appositives
- The Double Genitive
- -'s/-s' vs. Of : The Gray Areas
- Teaching Tips
- 8 Modal Auxiliaries in the Present or Future: "I would if I could, but I can't, so I won't."
- Can/Could
- Will/Would
- May/Might
- Should/Ought To
- Must
- Semi-Auxiliaries (Periphrastic Modals)
- Teaching Tips
- 9 Modal Auxiliaries in the Past: "There's no point thinking about what might have been."
- Can/Could/Could Have
- May Have/Might Have
- Should Have/Ought to Have
- Must Have/Had To
- Some Words About Would
- Would Rather Have/Would Sooner Have
- Teaching Tips
- 10 Passives and Causatives: "What's done is done 'cause I got it done."
- The Passive Voice
- Causatives
- Teaching Tips
- 11 Direct Object Companions: "The Queen of Hearts' men painted all the white roses red."
- Noun Phrases
- Adjective Phrases
- Infinitive Verb Phrase DOCs
- -ing Verb and Base Verb Phrases
- Past Participle Phrases
- Causatives and Direct Object Companions
- Teaching Tips
- 12 Coordination, Subordination, and Correlation: "We may all have come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now."
- Coordination
- Subordination
- Types of Subordinate Clauses
- Correlation
- Teaching Tips
- 13 Indirect Speech: "He said that she said that I said that ."
- Lexical Transformations
- A Note about Say
- A Note about Tell
- Other Reporting Verbs
- Backshifting
- Time and Space
- Infinitives
- Direct to Indirect Questions
- Exclamations
- Teaching Tips
- 14 Two- and Three-Word Verbs: "Read it over, think about it, and get back to me."
- Two-Word Verbs
- Three-Word Verbs
- A Bounty of Nouns and Adjectives
- Teaching Tips
- 15 Subjunctives, Hopes, and Wishes: "When you wish upon a star ."
- The Indicative and Subjunctive Moods
- Phrases which Force the Present and Timeless Subjunctives
- The Mandative Subjunctive
- A Modern Language Oddity: The Formulaic Subjunctive
- Teaching Tips
- 16 Conditional Sentences: "If music be the food of love, play on."
- Real Conditional Sentences: Timeless, Present, and Future Forms
- Real Conditional Sentences and the Imperative
- Unreal Conditional Sentences: Timeless, Present, and Future Forms
- Because Of Goes Subjunctive
- Unreal Conditional Sentences: The Past
- Mixing and Matching Unreal Conditional Clauses
- Phrases that Create Hypothetical Situations
- Teaching Tips
- 17 Autosegmental Features, Part 1: "His name's Castro, but he's not one of theee Castros."
- Stress and Single Words
- LEGATVM PERPLEXVM ROMANVM-or, A Confusing Legacy from Rome
- More Examples of Stress Changes and Parts of Speech
- Stress and Noun Phrases
- Stress and Verb Phrases
- Teaching Tips
- 18 Autosegmental Features, Part 2: "It's not always what you say, but how you say it."
- Stress and Whole Sentences
- Some and Any Revisited
- Intonation
- Teaching Tips
- 19 Neglected Words and Phrases: "We're poor little lambs who have lost our way ."
- Ellipsis
- Relaxed Pronunciation
- Intensifiers
- More Neglected Words and Phrases
- Negative Questions
- 20 Where English Is Going: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
- Vocabulary Changes
- -ly Adverbs
- Verbs
- Other Predictions
- Appendix 1 Teaching Strategies and Activities that Work
- Your Picture File
- Slot Substitutions
- Cloze Exercises
- Incomplete Dialogues
- Appendix 2 Notes on Pronunciation and Rules for Doubling Final Consonants
- The Letter "O"
- The "D" in Dry
- The "T" in Try
- The Flapped D
- Juncture
- The Most Common Vowel Sound in English
- The Final -ate!
- Other Tips for Teaching Pronunciation
- Rules for Doubling the Final Consonants
- Appendix 3 More Fun with Autosegmental Features: A Stress-Caused Metamorphosis
- Phrases
- Various
- Appendix 4 A Deeper Look at Reporting Verbs
- Patterns that Follow Reporting Verbs
- The Tone of Reporting Verbs
- Appendix 5 Rejoinders, Exclamations, Etc.
- Appendix 6 Games
- Tic Tac Toe (British "Naughts & Crosses")
- Concentration
- The Clothesline
- Oral Matching
- Appendix 7 Helpful Charts and Lists
- Useful Vocabulary Lists on the Internet
- Overview of the 12 Tense-Aspect Combinations
- Commonly Used Irregular Verbs
- Some Spelling Conventions with Verbs
- Index
