Teaching English Grammar

Very useful resource. Bought this for class and is a book I'll for as long as I teach.

Does include British grammar but a very good resource for teaching ESL. Highly recommend.

Excellent book. An invaluable resource for ESL teachers, or educators with high ESL student pop. Exercises are creative. Concepts are well explained. It's no go-to resource when planning grammar lessons.

This is very useful for novice teachers and teacher training programs. Commonly taught structures are presented with activities for teachers to use in class presenting and practicing the structures. Addresses form and meaning of language structures and would benefit from addressing the use. But GREAT. I give four stars not five just because it doesn't consistently address language rules/norms for use, and because it doesn't have many fluency-focus activities. Still recommend highly!

The teaching ideas in the book are easy to follow. It makes my grammar lessons more effective.

This is an excellent book for student and teachers!

Very helpful book for planning grammar lessons.

This book is as advertised -- a lucidly written and well-organized text on how to understand and teach English grammar.

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A great book, full of useful ideas. The text is easy to follow and the grammar is explained in a simple manner. I use it often in my lessons.

Excellent book...

Providing you are using it in the manner intended, obviously, Jim Scrivener’s “Teaching English Grammar” is an excellent resource and highly recommended. The reason for the caveat is that in terms of practical use, it isn’t designed to be a core teaching text for students of English (although as a core for teaching English teachers, it is arguably more central). This means that it’s not a book designed to start at page one and to use it as a basis for a language course. In fact, the most likely use for this book is as a supplement to a core teaching text to provide clear explanations of problems and provide some alternative exercises. Short chapters are organised around specific pieces of grammar (eg countable and uncountable nouns). Scrivener starts each with a summary of the form of the grammar (very helpful), ideas about presenting this topic, exercises to teach practice, concept checking questions, and often thoughts on meaning and use and common problem areas that students have. All is presented in a clear and practical format. There is no index, which is a bit of a shame, but otherwise it’s a good teaching resource. It’s not an academic treatise on grammar covering all aspects, and it might have been helpful to give more indication (there is some) of which is most appropriate for different levels of student fluency. With each topic, you will want to treat it like a menu rather than a recipe - pick a few exercises or, indeed, explanations. I guess what I’m saying is it will help you with ideas for explaining and teaching but won’t help you (much) to plan a course of work for students. I have found it more readable and practical than some of the more extensive tomes that are out there. Even so, just a cursory glance at some of the subjects will soon make you realise how frustrating the English language can be. It’s also worth noting that Scrivener’s emphasis is on common usage rather than grammatical purity - which is, by and large, a very good thing. So, as long as you don't expect either a substitute course plan or a comprehensive guide to all aspects of English grammar, then this is an excellent book and far clearer, and slightly less "dry" than others that I have seen.

Quando eu comecei a dar aulas de inglês, usei muito este livro. Recomendo para quem está iniciando suas aulas ou para quem quer algumas ideias. Muito bom.