SDE Teaching and Learning Grammar Jeremy Harmer BhioncmanTeaching and Learning Grammar Jeremy Harmer EY LONGMAN ww York Contents5 Practice techniques @ drills @ interaction activities @ involving the personality @ games @ written practice @ conclusion @ exercises @ references Testing grammar @ types of test @ writing achievement tests @ test items @ conclusion @ exercises @ references Final task Suggestions for further reading 41 41 43 46 47 51 55 55 55 57 57 57 59 66 66 67 69 Preface r= SOME TIME, many teachers have felt the need for a series of handbooks designed for ordinary teachers in ordinary class- rooms. So many books these days seem to be written for privileged teachers in privileged environments — teachers with large class- rooms, large budgets for expensive equipment, and small classes! Most of us are not so lucky: most ordinary teachers are short of almost everything except students. They don’t have a lot of time for elaborate theories, time-consuming classroom routines, and complicated jargon. Longman Keys to Language Teaching have been written especially for the ordinary teacher. The books offer sound, practical, down-to- earth advice on basic techniques and approaches in the classroom. Most of the suggested activities can be adapted and used for almost any class, by any teacher. In Teaching and Learning Grammar, Jeremy Harmer deals with one of the most controversial questions in ELT — should we teach grammar’? If so, when, and how? There was a time when ‘Doctor Grammar’ was seen as a cure for everything. Later, Dr Grammar became a cure worse than any disease! This book provides a very useful over-view of the various approaches and techniques that teachers can use in teaching grammar in their classrooms. The book contains many valuable classroom examples of teaching grammar in action. Neville Grant