Page 9 - Advanced English Grammar in Use

TO THE TEACHER

Advanced Grammar in Use was written as a self-study grammar book but teachers might also
find it useful for supplementing or supporting their classroom teaching.
The book will probably be most useful for more advanced level students for reference and
practice. Students at these levels will have covered many of the grammar points before, and some
of the explanations and practice exercises will provide revision material. However, all units are
likely to contain information that is new for students even at advanced level, and many of the uses
of particular grammatical patterns and contrasts between different forms will not have been
studied before.
No attempt has been made to grade the units according to level of difficulty. Instead you
should select units as they are relevant to the syllabus that you are following with your students,
or as particular difficulties arise.
There are many ways in which you might use the book with a class. You might, for example,
use explanations and exercises on the left-hand pages as sources of ideas on which you can base
the presentation of grammar patterns and contrasts, and use the exercises for classroom practice
or set them as consolidation material for self-study. The left-hand pages can then be a resource
for future reference and revision by students. You might alternatively want to begin with the
exercises and refer to the left-hand page only when students are having problems. You could also
set particular units or groups of units (such as those on Articles or The future) for self-study if
individual students are having difficulties. n
The Typical Errors in each unit (indicated with a* symbol and listed in Appendix 4 on page
246) can be discussed with students either before the explanations and examples have been
studied, in order to focus attention on the problem to be looked at in that part of the unit, or after
they have been studied, as consolidation. For example, before studying a particular unit you
could write the typical error(s) for that unit on the board and ask students: "What's wrong and
how would you correct it?"
There is a set of Additional Exercises (page 269), most of which can be used to provide practice
of grammar points from a number of different units.
A 'classroom edition' of Advanced Grammar in Use is also available. It has no key and some
teachers might prefer to use it with their students.

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