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Print Price: $55.50

Format:
Paperback
256 pp.
Approx. 40 full-colour photos and 20 figures, 8.5" x 11"

ISBN-13:
9780199003334

Publication date:
May 2014

Imprint: OUP Canada


Communicating with Grammar

Skills for Life 2

Silvija Kalnins and Jaklin Zayat

Series : Communicating With Grammar

Communicating with Grammar: Skills for Life is a Canadian series for ESL and EFL students looking to improve their understanding of English grammar. Students improve their command of English through a broad spectrum of themed chapters that set them up for further study or work in an English-speaking environment. Through a "learn-practise-use in context" approach, the books deliver the essential grammar concepts via both practical exercises and communicative activities which help students internalize the grammar in context, helping them become functional in English as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Readership : Intermediate to advanced-level ESL students needing grammar instruction or practice.

1. Simple Present and Past Progressive
2. Nouns and Pronouns
3. Articles and Determiners
4. Simple Past, Past Progressive, Used to
5. Comparatives, Superlatives, and Equatives
6. The Future Tense
7. Combining Clauses
8. Present Perfect
9. Modals
10. Types of Questions, Tags, and Short Answers
11. Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs
12. Past Perfect and Conditionals

Online Teacher's Resource
Classroom Audio CDs

Silvija Kalnins BA(Hons), CTESL has been teaching and coordinating English for the past ten years at La Cité collégiale. This is her third career. As the eldest daughter of Latvian immigrants, she has experienced firsthand the difficulties of English language acquisition, which has sensitized her to the needs and challenges that her students face.

Jaklin Zayat, BA (Modern Languages), MAEd. has been teaching ESL and academic writing for over twenty years. She speaks five languages and is recognized for her knowledge of the construction of many other languages. She currently teaches at La Cité Collégiale and the University of Ottawa. A co-author of Famous Canadian Authors, she also enjoys writing stories for future publications.

O Canada - Mohammad Hashemi

Special Features

  • A task-based communicative approach to grammar.
  • Real-life practise. Each chapter opens with a real-life task during which students have to use the new grammar point in order to communicate with their classmates.
  • Four Skills. Offering grammar instruction through the use of the four skills - reading, writing, listening, and speaking - the series helps students internalize concepts for better use in all their communication.
  • Focused. Avoids long digressions into exceptions or minor nuances of grammar. Instead it sticks to the essentials and gives students as much exposure as possible to the core concepts through a variety of exercises based on real-life uses of each concept.
  • Authentic. Reading and Listening components are from authentic sources, preparing students for real-world communication.
  • Canadian. Written by a Canadian author.