Product Description

• 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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35234 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

About the Author

Scott Thornbury is from New Zealand originally but he started his teaching career in the UK in 1975. Since then he has lived and worked in both Egypt and Spain, teaching, training teachers, and writing materials. In 1991 Scott did an MA in TEFL at the University of Reading. He has written a number of books about language teaching (including How to Teach Grammar and How to Teach Vocabulary), as well as lots of articles for journals and magazines (such as Modern English Teacher and English Teaching Professional). Scott has also given conference presentations at conferences in six different continents. At present Scott lives in Barcelona.

Customer Reviews

Life changing for teachers
This book is fantastic for teachers who have been teaching for a few years and feel confident enough in the classroom to leave their coursebook behind and prepare lessons built from ideas related to their students real needs.

Sometimes we get so used to the old 'chalk and talk' and we know we need to get away from it, but we aren't sure how. This book gives so many solutions. If you are in a teaching routine, just pick up this book, and find a way to teach which will enlighten your students and also take some of the pressure off you.

It shows how to make task based activities which, despite needing preparation, will mean that your students are being mroe active in the classroom and learning themselves, rather than you feeding the information straight into their mouths.

To conclude, this book is clear and accessible to any TEFL teachers wanting to improve their lessons.

Just one of many gems from a brilliant author
I've read a fair amount of Scott Thornbury's work, both books (including this one, obviously) and journal articles (e,g, in the "ELT Professional"), and can't praise him highly enough. His writing is succinct yet comprehensive, straightforward and accessible, yet without being over-simplified or "dumbed down" in any way. A true friend to teacher and academic alike, and I speak as someone who has applied Thornbury's work in both the classroom and in postgraduate research (He's no doubt a superb lecturer too; perhaps I may yet get a chance to attend one).