This is a grammar course for English beginners. If you have trouble making basic sentences and expressing your ideas in English, then this is the course for you.
This course will ensure you have a solid foundation of grammar to prepare you to move to the next level. Some of the topics covered will be easy, while others are more challenging. All of them are areas that most intermediate students of English make mistakes with. If you have high goals in English (for example, you want to speak naturally and correctly, like a native speaker, and at a very high professional level), then these are the basics you need to master.
There are 115 units. Each unit has a page of review and then exercises. Your teacher will guide you through the book and help you understand each point. In class, you will also create many examples using the target language about your own life.
Topics include:
- all the verb tenses and verb forms of English;
- modals and auxiliary verbs;
- "there" and "it" as subjects;
- question forms;
- reported speech;
- gerunds and infinitives;
- idioms with "get", "go", "do", "make" and "have";
- pronouns and possessives;
- articles ("a/an" and "the");
- determiners and pronouns;
- adjectives and adverbs;
- basics of word order and sentence construction;
- conjunctions and clauses;
- prepositions; and
- phrasal verbs.
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[Updated 4th ed/June 2020]
This is a basic course in grammar.
This book is designed to be used to troubleshoot grammatical problems, but it can also be worked through with the student to get a good overview of English grammar. It is particularly good if a student is motivated to do homework but needs tasks to be set for them.
The "In Use" series
Books in the "In Use" series all follow the same structure. They are divided into units grouped by topic. Each unit consists of a page of explanation and a page of exercises. They are designed for self-study but can be used in a classroom setting, too. They are very easy to teach from. The explanation covers everything you need, and the exercises are simple with answers provided.
- Work through the explanations together with your student, making sure that they understand and answering any questions they may have.
- Do the exercises togther.
- Set homework for each class based on the material covered.
Teaching strategies
When you teach vocabulary, make sure you do some or all of the following:
- Get your student to try to figure out the meanings of new words themselves.
- Get your student to explain the meaning of the word in another way.
- Get your student to tell you antonyms, synonyms or phrases they know related to the word in question.
- Model using the word in an example sentence that is related to their life or work.
- Make the student produce their own example sentence.
- Set writing homework that uses the new words.
Notes
- The answer key for each level is in a separate attached file. You can also find answers to the exercises at the back of the book.
- Students can download the sample pages from the course page under "Look inside". The PDF file is also included here in a separate attached file.