A Concise Grammar for English Language Teachers Second Edition

Published 2024.

The greatly revised and expanded edition of this popular book. It remains the firm favourite of those requiring a user-friendly yet precise treatment of ELT grammar.

Clear and concise treatment of problem areas commonly encountered by EL teachers, e.g. verb tenses, conditionals, phrasal verbs, relative clauses, the articles, infinitive, -ing form (gerund), the passive, and much more.

Teaching Notes with practical suggestions; activities which need no lesson planning; inductive tasks; answer key; phonemes + examples; helpful index.

Uncompromisingly clear layout, effective use of colour, diagrams, and innovative tables.

Error analysis; model grammar lesson, demonstration of board drawings, controlled practice, pair-work.

Penston's style rejects stuffy academic language and entertains in a unique teacher-to-teacher way, with many examples that, while neatly covering grammar points, often raise a smile. This is not to say accuracy suffers, in fact Penston occasionally provides data from linguistic corpora to support points succinctly made.