New Ways in Teaching Grammar, Second Edition
Contents
Part I. Noun Phrases
Part II. Comparatives and Superlatives
Part III. Relative and Adverb Clauses
Part IV. Verb Tenses
Part VI. Conditionals
Part VII. Modal Verbs
Part VIII. Verb Complementation
Part IX. Active and Passive Voice/Ergative Verbs
Part X. Using Corpora and Dictionaries
Part XI. Grammar for Writing
Part XII. More Grammar Fun
Part I. Noun Phrases
Articles, Nouns, and Quantifiers
- Grocery Store Ad Scavenger Hunt
- Authentic Activities for Article Usage
- Expressions of Quantity and Agreement
- The 4-Step Article Editing Process
Part II. Comparatives and Superlatives
Part III. Relative and Adverb Clauses
Relative Clauses
Famous People, Places, and Things: Using Relative Clauses in an Engaging Context
Adverb Clauses
Part IV. Verb Tenses
Past Tense
Present Perfect Tense
Past Perfect Tense
Mixed Tenses
- Vacations
- Verb-ography Verb Production with Bios
- Verb Fun With Mr. Bean
- Verb Tenses for English for Academic Purposes
Part VI. Conditionals
- Mysterious Telephone Calls
- Impossible and Unlikely Situations
- Past Regrets
- Win as Much as Possible!
- Guess the Result
Part VII. Modal Verbs
Part VIII. Verb Complementation
Causatives: One Word Makes a Difference
Part IX. Active and Passive Voice/Ergative Verbs
Part X. Using Corpora and Dictionaries
- Incorporating Corpus Data (COCA) in Teaching Phrasal Verbs
- Using Corpora to Teach Spoken Grammar
- Incorporating Corpus Data (COCA) in Teaching Reported Speech
- Learning Grammar from Learner Dictionaries
Part XI. Grammar for Writing
Composing and Style
- Model Sentences for Narrative Writing
- Grammar, Style, and the Choices We Make as Writers
- News Headlines
- Problems and Pain and Parallel Structure
Editing and Revision Activities
- Small Group Grammar Workshop
- Sentence Auction
- Noticing How Words Work
- Making Editing Fun Through Collaborative Competition