Designing Grammar Materials For A2 Level Learners

everywhere in English and so it’s vital to expose students to prepositions as soon as possible. Many teachers seem to introduce prepositions only when dealing with time and place, but why not start with commonly used verbs, such as listen to, which almost always takes a preposition?. Again, in this lesson we examine verbs that commonly take prepositions, and of course most prepositions naturally take an object. This lesson works as a nice complement, and it’s also useful as a refresher for students about to focus on multiword or phrasal verbs.

The indefinite pronouns everyone, everybody and everywhere may need to be covered regularly for students, since many fail to provide the correct agreement with the verb. We also look at how their has entered everyday spoken English, in order to refer back to these pronouns and make English gender-neutral!. Teaching polite forms at an early stage is essential. Few people respond well to want in a request, so it’s good practice to give your students exposure to would like and ’d like as quickly as possible – it’s a structure that’s obligatory for anyone who wants service with a smile in the English-speaking world!

Grammar is the sound, structure, and meaning system of language. All languages have grammar, and each language has its own grammar. People who speak the same language are able to communicate because they intuitively know the grammar system of that language—that is, the rules of making meaning. Students who are native speakers of English already know English grammar. They recognize the sounds of English words, the meanings of those words, and the different ways of putting words together to make meaningful sentences. However, while students may be effective speakers of English, they need guidance to become effective writers. They need to learn how to transfer their knowledge of grammatical concepts from oral language to written language. In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules which influences the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given language. It is the systematic study and