50 Mixed-Ability Grammar Lessons CLASSROOM PHOTOCOPIABLE TIMESAVERS Ready-made activities for busy teachers LEVEL: ELEMENTARY - INTERMEDIATE This rich resource provides grammar practice activities for the mixed-ability class covering the main Elementary, Pre-intermediate and Intermediate structures. Each lesson contains three graded levels of activity based around each structure. An ideal supplement to any coursebook up to Intermediate level.
Modern English linguistics: A structural and transformational grammar by John P Broderick Modern English Linguistics showed how transformational grammar developed
out of American structuralist morphology and syntax. It then went on
to describe English grammar in some detail using the so-called "extended
standard theory" of transformational grammar described in Noam Chomsky's
book, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Despite considerable changes
in Chomsky's ideas in the 1980s and 1990s (as for example, government and
binding theory), linguistics textbooks continued to be published well into
the 1990s that were still based on the Aspects model.
The Set Sail! Series focuses on getting young learners to enjoy communicating in English through a wide variety of activities in all four skills. Its pupil-centred approach motivates young learners, thus ensuring a positive experience in the English language classroom.
This book contains additional exercices to practise vocabulary and grammar presented in the Pupil's Book.
So many slighting remarks have been made of late on the use of teaching grammar as compared with teaching science, that it is plain the fact has been lost sight of that grammar is itself a science. The object we have, or should have, in teaching science, is not to fill a child's mind with a vast number of facts that may or may not prove useful to him hereafter, but to draw out and exercise his powers of observation, and to show him how to make use of what he observes... And here the teacher of grammar has a great advantage over the teacher of other sciences, in that the facts he has to call attention to lie ready at hand for every pupil to observe without the use of apparatus of any kind while the use of them also lies within the personal experience of every one.
The Teacher's Grammar Book
The Teacher's Grammar Book, Second Edition introduces the
various grammars that inform writing instruction in our schools, and
examines methods, strategies, and techniques that constitute best
classroom practices for teaching grammar and writing. Designed for
students who are preparing to become English or language arts teachers,
as well as for credentialed teachers who want an easy-to-use guide to
questions of methods, grammar, and teaching, this overview of basic
English grammar includes the following major topics: a brief history of
grammar, teaching grammar, grammar and writing, traditional grammar,
transformational-generative grammar, cognitive grammar, dialects, black
English, and Chicano English. New in the reorganized and fully updated Second Edition:
*new chapter giving a brief history of grammar and grammar instruction;
*new chapter on best practices--strategies and techniques that actually work;
*expanded chapter on cognitive grammar--a topic not found in other texts of this nature;
*expanded chapter on dialects;
*summary
and evaluation of the minimalist program (Noam Chomsky's most recent
revision of transformational-generative grammar)--a topic unique among
texts of this kind; and
*reduced discussion of transformational grammar.
