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Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield provide a selection of useful tips and ideas for teaching comparatives and superlatives.

Grammar Lessons for Teachers: Comparative and superlative adjectives
By Kerry G Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield
Adjectives and noun modifiers in English – tips and activities
By Kerry G Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield

All Adjectives

Verbs & Tenses

Past perfect aspect – tips and activities

By Kerry G. Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield

Tips and ideas from Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on teaching the past perfect aspect.

All Verbs & Tenses

Nouns & Phrases

Prepositions of time and place - tips and activities

Teaching tips and suggestions for teaching the prepositions of time and place, at, on and in.

All Nouns & Phrases

Determiners

Demonstratives – tips and activities

By Kerry G Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield

Tips and activities for teaching demonstratives.

Demonstratives – article
By Kerry G Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield

American English vs. British English

Differences in American and British English grammar - article

By Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield

An article by Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on recognizing grammatical differences between American and British English.

Differences in American and British English grammar - tips and activities
By Kerry G. Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield

Grammar Teaching

Grammar teaching: The discovery technique

By Adrian Tennant

Adrian Tennant discusses how to use the discovery technique to teach grammar and gives an activity idea for teaching the third conditional using this method.

Grammar teaching: Task-based grammar teaching

By Lindsay Clandfield

Lindsay Clandfield discusses task-based grammar teaching and provides a lesson plan based on this methodology which teaches the grammar point used to.

Grammar teaching: Exploiting texts

By Tim Bowen

An article by Tim Bowen on ways of exploiting authentic texts for grammar practice.

Grammar teaching: Little words, big grammar

By Adrian Tennant

Adrian Tennant explains how the 'little words' (those that make up approximately fifty percent of written and spoken language and grammar) are extremely important.

Adjectives

Comparative and superlative adjectives – tips and activities

Grammar Lessons for Teachers: Comparative and superlative adjectives

Adjectives and noun modifiers in English – tips and activities

Verbs & Tenses

Past perfect aspect – tips and activities

Past perfect aspect – article

Grammar Cards: Talking About Habits & Routines

Nouns & Phrases

Prepositions of time and place - tips and activities

Prepositions of time and place - article

Subjects and objects in English - tips and activities

Determiners

Demonstratives – tips and activities

Demonstratives – article

American English vs. British English

Differences in American and British English grammar - article

Differences in American and British English grammar - tips and activities

Grammar Teaching

Grammar teaching: The discovery technique

Grammar teaching: Task-based grammar teaching

Grammar teaching: Exploiting texts

Grammar teaching: Little words, big grammar

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