Fifty Ways to Teach Grammar: Tips for ESL/EFL Teachers

by Maggie Sokolik

Many textbooks do a fine job of presenting grammar to students. However, some students or classes need more practice after they've finished the exercises in their textbook. This guide provides imaginative and enjoyable games, drills, and activities to practice different grammatical structures such as verb tenses, articles, phrasal verbs, pronouns, relative clauses, modals, word forms, syntax, and more.

This book is divided into three categories:

a) Reading-writing exercises
b) Speaking activities
c) Fun & games

Enliven your classes with information gaps, poems, game shows, guessing games, substitution drills, writing prompts, discussion topics, and more.


The Fifty Ways to Teach Them series gives you a variety of drills, games, techniques, methods, and ideas to help your students master English. Most of the ideas can be used for both beginning and advanced classes. Many require little to no preparation or special materials. The ideas can be used with any textbook, or without a textbook at all. These short, practical guides aim to make your teaching life easier, and your students' lives more rewarding and successful.

Genres: Nonfiction

121 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 30, 2013

About the author

Maggie Sokolik holds a BA in Anthropology from Reed College, and an MA in Romance Linguistics and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. She is the author of over thirty ESL and composition textbooks. She has taught at MIT, Harvard, Texas A&M, and currently UC Berkeley, primarily in College Writing Programs, where she his the Director of College Writing Programs. Most recently, she developed and taught the MOOC course “How to Write an Essay,” through edX (http://edX.org) and in partnership with the US Department of State; this course enrolled over 130,000 students in its first year. She is the founding editor of TESL-EJ (http://tesl-ej.org), a peer-reviewed journal for ESL/EFL professionals, one of the first online journals--nearing its 20th anniversary. Maggie travels frequently to speak about grammar, writing, and instructor education.

Reviews

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having an easy to access, practical resource is a handy tool for the toolbox.

[Almudena Aguirre · Rating 5 out of 5]

A lot of good ideas

A lot of good ideas

Definitely, I will use the ideas in this book for my classes next semester. A must read for teachers. Very good.

[Claudette · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Audiobook) Yet again, I have used most of these techniques in my past teaching. However this is a good refresher.