1. Articles and Classroom Activities
- Prepositional Verbs and Verbs Followed by a Prepositional Phrase: What's the Difference?
- Used to Do and Be Used to Doing
- On Contractions : Part One
- On Contractions : Part Two
- They, Them, and Their : Singular or Plural
- Identifying People
- Getting to Grips with Get
- Have Got : Part One
- Have Got : Part Two
- Even If and Even Though
- Understanding Will
- Will and Be Going to : What's the Difference?
- There is and There are
- Possessive, compound nouns, or "of" plus noun phrase?
- Plural uncountable nouns, anyone?
- An introduction to the features of connected speech
2. Input and Tasks / Tasks and Input
a) Grammar
- Analysing word class, phrase and clause elements
- Relative Clauses
- The English Verb system (1): Tense and Time; The So-Called "Conditionals"
- The English Verb System (2): Aspect
- The English Verb System (3a): Auxiliary Verbs
- The English Verb System: (3b): Modality
- Question Formation
- Comparatives and Superlatives
b) Discourse
c) Phonology
- Learning the Phonemic Script
- Phonological Features of Connected Speech
- An Introduction to Stress and Intonation
d) Lexis
- Beside/Besides
- Lexical Chunks (1)
- Meaning and problems for learners - along, down, through, over, behind
e) Miscellaneous
- Pot Pourri (1) (Tests your understanding of a variety of items)
- Pot Pourri (2) (Tests your understanding of a variety of items)
- Pot Pourri (3) (Tests your understanding of a variety of items)
- Punctuation (1)
3. Genre Analysis
This section will gradually be built up to cover a variety of genres. We're starting with...
- Press Articles: Popular Science Articles Human Interest Stories
- Reviews: Book Reviews Visitor reviews
- Fiction: Novels
- Non-fiction books and articles: Biographies
- Procedural Texts: Rules for Children's Games
- Publicity/Advertising: Holiday Accommodation Websites
4. Terminology
And don't forget that in The ELT Glossary there are a lot more explanations of commonly used terms. See :
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