Course: Teaching English Grammar in Context

Watch the video to see a hypothetical English lesson. This lesson contains some pitfalls: examples of approaches we recommend avoiding when teaching English grammar in context. Use the discussion space …

Watch the video above to see how the author manipulates grammar to express bias in headlines. Tip: try speeding up or slowing down the videos by clicking the ‘1x’ symbol …

In this example, we started by responding to the poem as readers, and discussed what it means to us. Then, we looked again at the poem to account for those …

As we have seen cohesion is created via both lexical and grammatical cohesion. In the article, lexical cohesion is created through the use of words we would typically expect in …

Many people have a bad experience form learning grammar through rote exercises and pat phrases. This course recommends using authetntic texts (stories, articles, extracts etc.) that come from real life. …

Read the following short text. What problems can you see? 1) The bus comes to halt. At the next beep, the time will be 16:04. While we were there, the …

Here is the sentence from the previous step. The big dog looked menacingly at the nervous postman. When each participant read this, they created their own text world. This text …

This course was created by the team behind Englicious Englicious is a project with the aim of helping teachers and schools to teach English grammar in fun and meaningful ways. …

Now, let’s use the idea of patterns to help us analyse the poem. Writer create patterns in texts through a technique called linguistic foregrounding or highlighting. Linguistic foregrounding is when …

There are more activities on Englicious that use a similar approach to analyse non-fiction texts. If you’re looking for further inspiration, these pages should be of interest: Prepositions in Travel …

As part of the Englicious project, based in the Survey of English Usage at UCL, this course draws from recent academic research, especially the fields of corpus linguistics, and literary …

Instead of thinking about it as a constraint or list of rules, it can help to think of grammar as a toolkit or resource. Learners can draw from their repertoire …

There are many valid ways to teach English grammar, as with any other subject. This course is based on the principles of teaching English grammar in context. Based on these, …

All texts are produced in and for a certain context. They are produced with a purpose and audience in mind. These considerations will impact what choices the author makes. Our …