The order of the grammar points presented were not what I would consider the most ideal order. Also, a few items (especially conditionals) were not ex...moreThe order of the grammar points presented were not what I would consider the most ideal order. Also, a few items (especially conditionals) were not explained in away that would be intuitive to someone learning this for the first time.
Despite these flaws, the book did have a lot of explanations that could help people understand some of the finer points of different grammar patterns. Even the conditionals sections had some explanations of different aspects that could help clarify or reinforce the grammar point to students who already have a fairly solid understanding of conditionals.
I really like the explanation of 'adjectives + prepositions' and 'verbs + prepositions' at the end. They were lots of pages with lists of common preposition patterns and explanations to the meaning of these phrases. I think that this would especially helpful to Korean students since the wide variety of prepositions is not found in their language, and the average Korean learning English is prone to overlook the word when producing a sentence.
A lot of the practice problems were focus on accuracy with most of the activities being finishing the sentence with the correct pattern discussed on the previous page. There were a few activities that had the students describing a picture of situation with the correct grammar. I feel this is a much better form of practice (with a certain answer that can be found in the answer key) since it forces the student to learn to place the grammar pattern onto an appropriate situation.
There were lots of things that I was able to take away from this book and actually start using in my classroom right away. It will definitely be a book that I keep on hand when I need for information to explain a concept to my students.(less)
This book was full of good ideas that help turn regular, "traditional" grammar class into classes with production activities that use the grammar in a...moreThis book was full of good ideas that help turn regular, "traditional" grammar class into classes with production activities that use the grammar in a more practical situation. This helps prevent the class turning into nothing but cloze activities.
Some of the ideas I already knew, some where completely new to me and others were an improvement to some of my current activities.
All of the activities were quite student centered, though a few still were a bit teach centered heavy. Most of these teacher centered sections were the teacher reading out student responses to check the work that was done. While this is helpful, reading out the sentences from sixteen students really decreases the amount of production time for the student.(less)
I finally finished this tome of grammatical knowledge after almost two months of reading 10 pages a day.
In no way does reading this book cover to cov...moreI finally finished this tome of grammatical knowledge after almost two months of reading 10 pages a day.
In no way does reading this book cover to cover make me an expert on grammar, but I did learn a lot of little tidbits of information to help explain better certain errors that I've corrected my students on.
This book was a good overview, but didn't go into too much detail. There were some points that I was able to understand quite easily after reading the example sentences that I feel a non-native speaker would have quite a bit of trouble understand without a more thorough explanation.
During my CELTA course, when I was first using this book, I found this book was good to use first when looking up certain grammar points. This book gave a nice overview and basic understand of the point being made. Afterwards, I would consult other grammar books for more in depth details and be able to understand it better.(less)
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