The ELT Grammar Book

An Instructor-Friendly Guide for English Language Teachers

Richard Firsten, Michael C. Berman, Eileen Cotter

• Publisher: Pro Lingua Learning
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9780866475419
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: English Language
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Who says a grammar guide has to be boring? If you're looking for a resource to help you understand and teach English grammar but don't want the typical compendium of lifeless rules and charts, The ELT Grammar Book, 2nd Edition is for you! In each chapter, author Richard Firsten…

- entertains you through comics, history, and his folksy narrative style;

- engages you in active learning through reflection questions and exercises;

- makes the grammar clear through teacher-friendly explanations and examples;

- helps you process and retain the material with summaries of the core points;

- offers you suggestions for dealing with troublesome issues as well as teaching tips for each grammar topic;

- and provides online chapter supplements at ELTgrammar.com.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Sources for the Quotes that Appear under Chapter and Section Titles
• Contents
• 1 Word Order: “Throw Mama from the train a kiss.”
• 2 Nouns, Articles, Quantifiers, and Adjectives: “By the light of the big, bright, beautiful, silvery full moon”
• 3 The Presents: “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
• 4 The Pasts: “What’s done is done.”
• 5 The Futures: “Que será, será …”
• 6 Prepositions: “There’s a frog on a log in a hole at the bottom of the sea.”
• 7 Genitives: “Mice’s and men’s best-laid plans” “The best-laid plans of mice and men”
• 8 Modal Auxiliaries in the Present or Future: “I would if I could, but I can’t, so I won’t.”
• 9 Modal Auxiliaries in the Past: “There’s no point thinking about what might have been.”
• 10 Passives and Causatives: “What’s done is done ’cause I got it done.”
• 11 Direct Object Companions: “The Queen of Hearts’ men painted all the white roses red.”
• 12 Coordination, Subordination, and Correlation: “We may all have come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now.”
• 13 Indirect Speech: “He said that she said that I said that …”
• 14 Two- and Three-Word Verbs: “Read it over, think about it, and get back to me.”
• 15 Subjunctives, Hopes, and Wishes: “When you wish upon a star …”
• 16 Conditional Sentences: “If music be the food of love, play on.”
• 17 Autosegmental Features, Part 1: “His name’s Castro, but he’s not one of theee Castros.”
• 18 Autosegmental Features, Part 2: “It’s not always what you say, but how you say it.”
• 19 Neglected Words and Phrases: “We’re poor little lambs who have lost our way …”
• 20 Where English Is Going: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
• Appendix 1 Teaching Strategies and Activities that Work
• Appendix 2 Notes on Pronunciation and Rules for Doubling Final Consonants
• Appendix 3 More Fun with Autosegmental Features: A Stress-Caused Metamorphosis
• Appendix 4 A Deeper Look at Reporting Verbs
• Appendix 5 Rejoinders, Exclamations, Etc.
• Appendix 6 Games
• Appendix 7 Helpful Charts and Lists
• Index