本书是"Learning in Doing?剑桥英语课堂教学系列"中的一本,由具有丰富课堂教学经验的一线教师撰写,作者力 图打破"教语法只能是枯燥的"这一误区,为教师们提供了近200种有趣的、生动的语法实践活动,让语法教学生活 化、交际化。全书语言简明实用,贴近课堂实际,对英语教师、英语教育研究者来说是一本极具价值的参考书。
Contents Thanks and acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Part 1: Background theory and guidelines 3 1 Grammar 3 What is grammar? 3 The grammar practised in this book 3 The place of grammar in language teaching 4 2 Practice 6 Validity 6 Quantity 7 Success-orientation 7 Heterogeneity 8 Interest 9 Summary 10 3 Activities 11 Features of activity design 11 Practical tips 24 Part 2: Activities 27 1 Adjectives 27 1.1DJECTIVE BEFORE THE NOUN 27 1.1.1 Guessing adjectives 27 1.1.2 Inserting adjectives 28 1.1.3 The same tastes 29 1.1.4 Adjective poem 31 1.2 COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES 32 1.2.1 Adjectives on the Internet 32 1.2.2 Brainstorming comparisons 33 1.2.3 Bigger, better, faster! 36 1.2.4 Circle comparisons 37 1.2.5 Preferences 39 1.2.6 Which is heavier? 40 1.3 ADJECTIVES AFTER BE OR OTHER COPULAR VERBS 42 1.3.1 Guessing by description 42 1.3.2 Not what it seems 43 2 Adverbs 44 2.1 MANNER ADVERBS 44 2.1.1 How can you do it? 44 2.1.2 Miming adverbs 45 2.2 FREQUENCY ADVERBS 47 2.2.1 Frequency surveys 47 2.2.2 What do you do when ...? 49 3 Conditionals 50 3.1 Finishing conditional sentences 50 3.2 Chains of events 52 3.3 Superstitions 53 3.4 Justifying actions 54 3.5 Looking back 56 3.6 I wish ... 57 4 Future tenses 59 4.1 FUTURE WITH GOING TO 59 4.1.1 Mickey’s diary 59 4.1.2 Finding a time to meet 62 4.1.3 Future of a picture 63 4.1.4 Mime continuation 67 4.2 FUTURE WITH WILL 68 4.2.1 Future of an object 68 4.2.2 How will the story end? 69 4.2.3 Horoscopes 70 4.2.4 The world tomorrow 7? 4.3 THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE 72 4.3.1 By six o’clock 72 5 Imperatives 73 5.1 Please! 73 5.2 Directions 74 5.3 Recipes 76 5.4 Dos and don’ts 77 5.5 Symbols 78 5.6 Suggestions 80 6 Indirect speech 81 6.1 INDIRECT STATEMENTS AND QUESTIONS 81 6.1.1 Can you remember what they said?