To a teenage student, nothing is more motivating than learning. Every unit in What's up? has been carefully designed to pave the way for the achivement of learning goal. Simple grammar and vocabulary presentations, numerous practice opportunities, stimulating reading and listening materials, useful models for speaking and writing tasks, a clear and attractive layout - all ensure a smooth and successful learning process. Students will finish each What's up? unit with a sense of having fulfilled a goal, with the desired level, confidance and motivation to face the new challenges ahead.
If you are an ESL teacher you should know how difficult it is to teach tenses. Teaching the present continuous tense immediately after teaching the simple present tense can be confusing for students.
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If you’ve ever tried to use a grammar book to look up something straightforward - such as when to use ‘that’ or ‘which’, or where to put the apostrophe when a word already ends in ‘s’ - you’ll know it’s virtually impossible to find what you want. Even the books supposedly designed for people with no knowledge of grammar seem to use complicated jargon, and you need a natural ability for the subject and a desire to plough through endless paragraphs of complicated text just to pinpoint your problem.
Introduction to Academic Writing, Third Edition, is an intermediate writing textbook/ workbook for English language learners in academic settings. Tt teaches rhetoric and sentence structure in a straightforward manner, using a step-by-step approach, high-interest models, and varied practices. Students are guided through the writing process to produce well-organized, adequately developed paragraphs and essays. Explanations are simple, and numerous practices help students assimilate each skill.
