This course covers all aspects of grammar that intermediate-level students or above should know.
If you occasionally make grammatical errors or get confused by complex grammar rules, then this course will benefit you. It lays a strong foundation and gives you guidance to achieve higher-level goals, like speaking correctly in both casual and formal situations.
There are 22 sections. Each section begins by revising the basics. Then it takes you through a variety of grammar rules and tips for natural speech. The sections begin with simple grammar rules you may already know, and get progressively more difficult, finishing with complex topics such as indirect speech and spoken grammar.
In class, you will also use the target language to create many original examples about your own life and goals. Your teacher will guide you through the book and help you understand each point.
Topics include:
- present tense;
- future tense;
- past tense;
- perfect tense;
- passive sentences;
- questions and negatives;
- using -ing forms;
- articles: a/an and the;
- comparing;
- using if;
- indirect speech; and
- spoken grammar.
Time to complete
This is the new grammar course as of October 2018.
The Oxford grammar series
Books in the Oxford grammar series follow the same structure. They are divided into broad sections varying in length from 10-27 pages. Each section begins with foundational instruction and then builds more and more complex language on that foundation.
- Yellow boxes of structures and examples are the central part of this book and should have time spent on them.
- You can do all or some of the exercises, or assign them for homework.
- Homework can also include instructions for original sentences using the framework provided.
Teaching strategies
Remember the goal is to use this language to make original sentences about relevant topics. That means you should imagine how the student would use this language, and lead them to do so in the lesson.
- For instance p182, determiners: "We ask which when there is a limited choice". For example: "Which size do you want - small, medium or large?" After giving this example to students, you can do the following:
- Ask the student to think of some places with a limited choice.
- Provide an example situation of being at a restaurant and there are a few choices, such as, "The restaurant has just two types of beer, Asahi and Corona. Which would you like?"
- Ask the student to think of their own examples using which.
- You can also try to think of GBC-style questions that lead to grammar points.
- Make sure, if you ask broad questions, that the student uses the grammar structures in the answer. You can call them out on that, "You forgot to use the grammar structure! Can you give me a sentence with this grammar in it?"
- You can push your student to guess answers and word meanings.
Notes
- The answer key has been split off into a separate file so you can have both the text and answers available when teaching.
- There is also a teacher's book with brief language notes and additional activities for each section.
- You can find tests for each section, as well as a "Common mistakes" test, on the Oxford English Grammar Course Teacher's Site (you'll have to register, but it's a simple process).