GRAMMAR with LAUGHTER

GRAMMAR with LAUGHTER Author: George Woolard Straightforward, Easy-to-Use Material for Busy Teachers eBook created (05/01/‘16): QuocSan CONTENTS: Copyright Introduction Humour and motivation 82 worksheets Some techniques Self-access [01] Tenses Tense in English 01 The Present Simple 02 The Present Continuous 03 The Simple Past (regular verbs) 04 The Simple Past (irregular verbs) 05 The Past Continuous 06 Past Simple/Continuous 07 The Present Perfect 08 The Present Perfect 09 Present Perfect/Past Simple 10 The Present Perfect Continuous 11 The Past Perfect 12 The Past Perfect Continuous 13 Will/going to – 14 Will/going to – 15 Present used for future 16 The Future Continuous 17 Used to 18 Have/have got 19 The Imperative [02] Modal Verbs The English Modals 20 Can/could – ability 21 Can/could – requests 22 Must/have to 23 Mustn’t/don’t have to 24 Must/can’t 25 Should/shouldn’t 26 Should have/shouldn’t have [03] Conditionals Three common patterns Other patterns A good rule 27 The First Conditional 28 The Second Conditional 29 The Third Conditional 30 Wish/if only 31 Unless/if not [04] Passives What is the passive? Why use the passive and not the active? 32 Passives – present and past 33 Passives – perfect 34 Have something done [05] Verb Patterns Grammar or vocabulary? 35 Verb + infinitive 36 Verb + object + infinitive 37 Verb + -ing 38 Verb + preposition 39 Verb + preposition + -ing 40 Expressions + -ing 41 Make/let [06] Articles etc Determiners Some and any Countable and uncountable nouns a lot of/lots of 42 Some/any 43 Much/many/a lot of 44 A few/a little 45 Some/any/no/every 46 Uncountable Nouns 47 Possessives 48 Reflexive Pronouns [07] Adjectives & Adverbs Adjectives Order of adjectives Comparatives and superlatives 49 Adjectives ending in ed/ing 50 Adjective + preposition 51 Adjective + infinitive 52 Too/enough 53 Adverbs 54 Adverbs of Frequency 55 Order of Adjectives 56 Comparatives 57 As … As 58 Superlatives 59 Comparison with like [08] Clauses Relative clauses Non-defining relative clauses Defining relative clauses 60 Defining Relative Clauses 61 Non-defining Relative Clauses 62 Clauses with participles 63 Noun Clauses 64 So/because 65 So + adjective + that 66 Such + adjective + noun [09] Questions & Reported Speech Rules for Reported Speech Tags 67 Reported Speech 68 Do you know/Can you tell 69 Question Tags 70 So/neither/either 71 What’s your name? [10] Prepositions The correct preposition Expressions with prepositions Phrasal verbs 72 Prepositions of Place 73 Prepositions of Direction 74 Noun + preposition 75 Phrases with prepositions 76 Before/after/until 77 For/during/while 78 Phrasal Verbs [11] Other Points Miscellaneous points 79 Numbers 80 Times and Dates 81 Likes and Dislikes 82 Requests with would like Copyright This book is fully protected by copyright All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior permission of the copyright owner Permission to Photocopy All of the students’ material in this book is intended for photocopying Permission is hereby given to photocopy all such pages for use by individual teachers in their classes No private or institutional copying which could be construed as re-publication is allowed without the permission of the copyright owner The Author George Woolard is an experienced ELT teacher and teacher trainer who has worked in Greece and Malaysia He now teaches at Stevenson College, Edinburgh His first book for LTP was the highly successful Lessons with Laughter The Illustrator Bill Stott is a well known British cartoonist His work has appeared in many magazines and newspapers Sales of his books of cartoons exceed two million He has spent the past 30 years teaching, drawing and living on Merseyside He is a distinguished after-dinner speaker Acknowledgements Cover design by Anna Macleod Cartoons by Bill Stott Printed in England by Commercial Colour Press, London E7 Introduction Humour and motivation Grammar with Laughter is a book which uses jokes to highlight grammatical patterns Humorous learning materials have a number of advantages Firstly, they increase motivation by being potentially amusing Secondly, they are memorable and can help the learner to remember grammar Lastly, they lead to spontaneous practice and consolidation of grammar through the learner’s natural desire to share jokes with others 82 worksheets Grammar with Laughter is intended for intermediate students although the material will be of use to the pre- and the post-intermediate student It consists of 82 worksheets to be used to provide supplementary grammar practice The worksheets are organised grammatically, consisting of a series of jokes which have a single grammar focus Each worksheet ends with a task which is designed to help the learner personalise the grammar focus item of the worksheet This generally involves learners in producing information about themselves, their attitudes and opinions It is not intended that the worksheets be used to present grammar points Once a class has completed a unit in their course book, the teacher can select the corresponding worksheet as humorous consolidation Please note that some jokes appear more than once to illustrate different grammar points Some techniques Here are some ideas about using the worksheets in class There is no one set way of dealing with them It depends on your students, your situation, and the kind of teacher you are! Get students to the exercise alone Get students to work in pairs to check their answers and decide on anything they did not understand Do the follow-up activity at the bottom of the page Get students to go back over the exercise, this time underlining all uses of the grammar point Ask students which jokes they did not find funny Take a class vote on the best/worst joke on each sheet Cut up one (or more) pages and give each student one joke They then have to learn the joke and tell it to another student without referring to the paper Give each student one joke to translate into their own language Is it still funny? ↑ my name’s Martin ↑ Croaka Cola ↑ especially at the cinema ↑ prefer beef ↑ never cleaned one ↑ Married ↑ full ↑ a submarine ↑ face ↑ pockets ↑ a return ticket ↑ coffee ↑ die ↑ soon ↑ a new bike ... to remember grammar Lastly, they lead to spontaneous practice and consolidation of grammar through the learner’s natural desire to share jokes with others 82 worksheets Grammar with Laughter is... tell it to another student without referring to the paper Give each student one joke to translate into their own language Is it still funny? Self-access Grammar with Laughter is ideal for Self... self-study grammar practice books that are available Students can be encouraged to move from the practice exercises in these self-study books to the corresponding unit in Grammar with Laughter