Teaching English as a Foreign Language

200 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Correctness in pronunciation is all to do with whether or not people under- stand you easi ...

Chapter 14: In One Ear, Out the Other: Learning To Listen 201 Authentic listening texts give students a chance to hear how norma ...

202 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes ✓ The language in the text: You may want to remind them of what a particular tense sounds ...

Chapter 14: In One Ear, Out the Other: Learning To Listen 203 ✓ Women in the music industry ✓ Living in London Have them compare ...

204 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Come Again? Repeating the Text In most cases you play listening texts twice within the les ...

Chapter 14: In One Ear, Out the Other: Learning To Listen 205 Figure 14-1: A business English activity. Owner Mrs Smith Manager ...

206 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Students don’t need to understand every word. After all, in real life we often just let ph ...

Chapter 14: In One Ear, Out the Other: Learning To Listen 207 Keep in mind that you always set the task before playing the text ...

208 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes ✓ Reading a book related to the listening text: Listening texts that involve a popular per ...

Part IV The Grammar You Need to Know – and How to Teach It ...

In this part... T eaching grammar needn’t be a slog, even if you’re not much used to it yourself. While this book doesn’t claim ...

Chapter 15 Chapter 15: Stop Press! Student to Deliver Sentence Sentence In This Chapter ▶ Looking at the building blocks of sent ...

212 Part IV: The Grammar You Need to Know – and How to Teach It Thinking about subjects A subject is basically a word telling yo ...

Chapter 15: Stop Press! Student to Deliver Sentence 213 In the sentence, ‘Yesterday afternoon Rex went to the supermarket’, the ...

214 Part IV: The Grammar You Need to Know – and How to Teach It ✓ Past participle: When you use a passive sentence (‘the book wa ...

Chapter 15: Stop Press! Student to Deliver Sentence 215 The verbs marked with * never change form or tense. By this I mean you c ...

216 Part IV: The Grammar You Need to Know – and How to Teach It Shortening verbs with contractions In English, sometimes you can ...

Chapter 15: Stop Press! Student to Deliver Sentence 217 When you mention the person who receives the action, you’re talking abou ...

218 Part IV: The Grammar You Need to Know – and How to Teach It Unfortunately, prepositions don’t translate very well into other ...

Chapter 15: Stop Press! Student to Deliver Sentence 219 Using the indefi nite a/an You use the indefinite articles for non-speci ...