Introduction 1
PART ONE:GUIDELINES 4
1 Grammar 4
1 What is grammar? 4
2 The place of grammar in language teaching 4
3 What does learning grammar involve? 5
4 The organization of grammar teaching 6
2 Practice 11
1 Pre-learning 11
2 Volume and repetition 12
3 Success-orientation 12
4 Heterogeneity 13
5 Teacher assistance 14
6 Interest 15
3 Activities 17
1 The task 17
2 Interest 19
3 Learner activation 25
4 In the classroom 32
1 Practical hints 32
2 Getting the most out of coursebook exercises 39
PART TWO:ACTIVITIES 44
1 Adjectives 44
2 Adverbs 48
3 Articles,definite and indefinite 53
4 Both...and,either...or,neither...nor 55
5 Comparison of adjectives 62
6 Conditional clauses 75
7 'Copula'verbs 83
8 Countable/uncountable,singular/plural nouns 86
9 Future tenses 94
10 Future perfect tense 120
11 Have/has(got) 122
12 Imperatives 127
13 Indirect speech 136
14 -ING form of the verb 143
15 Interrogatives 148
16 Is/are,there is/there are 165
17 Modals 172
18 Negative sentences 181
19 Numbers 191
20 Passives 197
21 Past perfect 206
22 Past progressive 208
23 Past simple 213
24 Possessives 226
25 Prepositions 230
26 Present perfect 236
27 Present progressive 246
28 Present simple 254
29 Pronouns 265
30 Relative clauses 268
31 Short answers 273
32 Tag questions 275
33 TO form of the verb 278
34 Used to 281
Bibliography 283
Index 285