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 Notes to the Teacher

Table of Contents

Introduction
Presentation Contents
Using the Presentations
Reading Slides
Grammar Review Slides
Practice Slides
 Introduction

Welcome to the Understanding and Using

English Grammar Teacher Resource Disc

These PowerPoint® presentations provide visual aids for

teachers to use in class. Each presentation is designed as a
beyond-the-book activity to be used after the chapter has
been studied in class.
Each chapter contains a thematic reading embedded with
the target structures. Brief reviews of key grammar points,
designed to further illustrate the grammar, follow each
paragraph. Each section is then reinforced with short
practices.
 Presentation Contents
Each presentation contains a set of slides based around a
paragraph of the reading.

Each set of slides is made up of three different types of

slides that deal with the grammar points in that section.

1) Paragraph slides – contain the reading with embedded

grammar structures
2) Grammar review slides – review key grammar
structures
3) Practice slides – provide an informal means of
assessing comprehension

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 Using the Presentations

The presentations and their readings can be used in a variety of

ways, but they all are intended to be used after the bulk of a
chapter has been covered in class.

The individual paragraphs can be printed out and assigned for

homework, or they can be handed out in class for pairs or small
groups to study. They can also simply be projected onscreen
for the whole class to study together. The practice slides are
equally flexible and can be used as whole class reviews, pair or
small group work, or informal, individual quizzes.

Using the Presentations

 Reading Slides
• A variety of reading types such as informational, academic, and
narrative.
• One theme per chapter used for all the readings, reviews, and
practices.

The earliest known use of wind power was the sailboat, and
from this technology windmills were invented. The first windmills
were developed in Persia in 500-900 A.D. They were used for
pumping water and grinding grain. In the 13th and 14th centuries,
the first mills in western Europe were used for irrigation, grain-
grinding, and saw-milling of timber. In the 19th century, when the
steam engine was invented, the use of wind power declined in
Europe. But thousands of miles to the west in the U.S., the next
phase of wind power was being developed -- windmills were
used by cowboys and farmers to provide water for livestock and
families. And in the late 19th century, they were used by scientists
to generate electricity.
 Grammar Review Slides
•Restate the key grammar points from the chapter.
•Use examples from the paragraph or within the theme
of the reading.
 Practice Slides
• A range of practice types, from more structured to more
open-ended, provide an informal means of assessing
comprehension.