This abridged version of Radford's Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English offers a concise, accessible introduction to current syntactic theory, drawing on the key concepts of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. Assuming little or no prior grammatical knowledge, it leads students through a range of topics in English syntax, beginning at an elementary level and progressing in stages towards more advanced material. An extensive glossary is included and each chapter contains a workbook section with "helpful hints", exercises, and model answers, suitable for class discussion and self-study.

Writing Warm Ups: 70 Activities for Prewriting
Warm-up students' writing muscles (and skills!) with this creative teacher resource of activities and photocopiable exercise sheets! Designed to sensitize English learners to the process of writing before their first compositions go down on paper, these 70 activities introduce such writing concepts as audience, purpose, point of view, focus, classification, sequence, cause and effect, and comparison and contrast. Every activity has easy-to-follow teacher notes and minimal preparation for the teacher. An answer key is included. This is truly a fun "workout room" for getting the writing skills of English learners "in shape!"