Scott Thornbury

Teaching Grammar Creatively is a practical new resource book that offers a variety of lessons and activities for everyday use in English language classes. It aims to stimulate students' imagination, humour and creativity and increase the effectiveness of grammar practice. The book offers more than 50 complete lessons covering a wide range of grammar structures, learner levels, and age groups. Each lesson is divided into two main sections: Language Awareness Activities and Creative Grammar Practice. The Language Awareness Activities are designed to introduce and provide initial practice of items that may still be unfamiliar to students. The Creative Grammar Practice section provides ideas for a deeper and more personalised familiarisation with these items, always with an element of individual creativity. Each lesson ends with the creation of a learner text - a permanent and original record of the grammar, in the form of a story or a poem for example.

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The CELTA Course is the only CELTA preparation course endorsed by Cambridge ESOL. It provides full coverage of the CELTA syllabus in a ready-to-use course. The CELTA Course is divided into user-friendly sections: * Input sessions (40 units on 'The learners and their contexts', 'Classroom teaching', 'Language awareness', and 'Professional development') * Teaching practice * Classroom observation * Written assignments and tutorials * 'Resource file' The Trainee Book includes a range of material to be used in input sessions, helpful advice about the course, and a wealth of useful reference material. The Trainer's Manual includes suggestions on how to best use the material with trainees, as well as help and advice on how to prepare trainees for teaching practice, lesson observations, written assessment and tutorials.

The CELTA Course is the only CELTA preparation course endorsed by Cambridge ESOL. It provides full coverage of the CELTA syllabus in a ready-to-use course. The CELTA Course is divided into user-friendly sections: * Input sessions (40 units on 'The learners and their contexts', 'Classroom teaching', 'Language awareness', and 'Professional development') * Teaching practice * Classroom observation * Written assignments and tutorials * 'Resource file' The Trainee Book includes a range of material to be used in input sessions, helpful advice about the course, and a wealth of useful reference material. The Trainer's Manual includes suggestions on how to best use the material with trainees, as well as help and advice on how to prepare trainees for teaching practice, lesson observations, written assessment and tutorials.

Instead of presenting grammar in the conventional way, under headings such as 'the present perfect' or 'prepositions of time' Natural Grammar is organized around words. Why? Scott Thornbury tells us ''Very simply, words have grammar. That is to say, when you use a word you are obliged to choose from the particular grammar patterns associated with that word.'' Let's look at some examples using for: for + noun phrase e.g. This book is for students and teachers for + ing e.g You can use a compass for telling the time for + noun phrase + to - infinitive e.g. I'm waiting for him to call So, if you learn the grammar of for you are learning at least three important grammar patterns in English. What's more, these grammar patterns cover all of the most important grammar structures in English so your students can be confident they are still learning what we could call the 'traditional' grammar structures. In fact there is a list on page ii o

Explores different techniques for teaching grammar including inductive and deductive approaches *Covers practising, testing, error correction and how to integrate grammar with various methodologies such as communicative language teaching and task-based learning *Sample lessons show a range of teaching approaches and grammar items in context

How to teach Vocabulary is for teachers wanting to develop their skills and to find out more about recent developments, such as language corpora and the lexical approaches to teaching.Key Features- Explanations of the theory of words and their relationships- Methods of increasing students' confidence with words