Grammar
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ArticleGrammar teaching: The discovery technique
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.
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ArticleGrammar teaching: Little words, big grammar
Adrian Tennant explains how the 'little words' (those that make up approximately fifty percent of written and spoken language and grammar) are extremely important.
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ArticleGrammar teaching: Task-based grammar teaching
Lindsay Clandfield discusses task-based grammar teaching and provides a lesson plan based on this methodology which teaches the grammar point used to.
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ArticleGrammar teaching: Exploiting texts
An article by Tim Bowen on ways of exploiting authentic texts for grammar practice.
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Grammar: have got
Scott Thornbury explains how 'have got' came to have its modern meaning and usage.
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Grammar: Noun phrases
Jim Scrivener presents some ideas for encouraging students to think about and practise longer noun phrases.
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ArticleGrammar: Doctor Who?
Here are four games from Jim Scrivener based around the theme of finding out who someone is or who did something. Great for five-minute fillers, or end-of-term lessons!
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Grammar: I've been waiting for ages
Tips and ideas for working with the present perfect continuous.
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Grammar: passives in conversation
Lindsay Clandfield offers some advice and suggestions for practising the passive in conversation classes.
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Grammar: mood and modality 1
Jonathan Marks explains the difference between mood and modality.
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Grammar: mood and modality 2
Jonathan Marks explains the difference between mood and modality.
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Grammar: passives
Some advice and suggestions for practising the passive in a conversation class.
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Grammar: affixes
An article offering advice and suggestions on how to teach affixes in a contextualized way.
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Grammar: stance markers and adverbials
An article giving examples and explaining the usage of stance markers and adverbials.
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Grammar: 'unless' and 'if'
An article explaining the difference in meaning between if and unless in conditional sentences.
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ArticleGrammar: 'them' and 'they'
An explanation of the use of them and they in different contexts.
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Grammar: gradable and non-gradable adjectives
An article offering advice and teaching suggestions on the subject of gradable and non-gradable adjectives.
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Grammar: modal verbs may and might
An article explaining the difference between the modal verbs may and might.
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Grammar: word order in passive questions
An article offering an explanation and teaching suggestions on word order in passive questions.