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Informationen zum Autor Scott Thornbury has taught and trained in Egypt, UK, Spain, and in his native New Zealand. Until recently, he taught on an online MA TESOL program for The New School in New York. His writing credits include several award-winning books for teachers on language and methodology, including About Language (Cambridge) and The New A-Z of ELT (Macmillan). His latest books are 30 Language Teaching Methods,101 Grammar Questions, and 66 Essentials of Lesson Design (all Cambridge). He is also the series editor for the Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers. His website is www.scottthornbury.com Klappentext This book raises the issue of what a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively. It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system. Zusammenfassung This book raises the issue of what a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively. It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introductory Unit 1.Language:Standards and rules 2.Language: Systems and syllabuses 3.Forms! functions! notions! texts 4.An introduction to phonology 5.The consonants 6.The vowels 7.Stress! rhythm and connected speech 8.Intonation 9.Word formation 10.Lexical meaning 11.Word classes and phrases 12.The simple sentence 13.The complex sentence 14.Negatives and questions 15.The verb phrase 16.Time and tense 17.Progressive aspect 18.Perfect aspect 19.Modality 20.Futurity 21.Hypothetical meaning and conditionals 22.The noun phrase 23.Determiners 24.Adjectives and adverbs 25.Prepositions and phrasal verbs 26.Cohesion 27.Texts 28.Conversations Key and Commentary
