English Grammar Crash Course (For Celta, Certtesol, Tefl)

A bite-sized introduction to English grammar for trainee teachers (CELTA, CertTESOL, TEFL) and current teachers

What you'll learn

Gain knowledge of the parts of speech in English, including nouns, verbs and verb forms, adjectives and adverbs

Gain knowledge of the use and form of the tense system in English, including past, present and future tenses

Gain knowledge of the use and form of modals and semi-modals in English

Gain knowledge of the use and form of conditionals in English

Requirements

No previous teaching experience or linguistic knowledge is required. This course is designed for candidates who are already teaching English, are planning to teach English, or are going to take, or are planning to take, the Cambridge CELTA teacher training course, the Trinity CertTESOL or other TEFL teacher training courses. All you need is a pen and paper or word processing software to make notes on, as necessary.

Description

This course is an engaging, video-based introduction to the grammar of English, with clearly-contextualised examples, a comprehensive focus on what the grammar means and how we use it, and a breakdown of the structure of each grammatical item. Whether you're completely new to English grammar or need to brush up your skills, this course is an invaluable introduction.As well as easy video explanations, you can find a handy transcript for each video, as well as a detailed Cheat Sheet PDF that you can use as a reference before, during and after your teacher training course.This course looks in detail at the following:Parts of speechNouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and interjectionsTensesPresent tenses (present simple, present continuous, present perfect simple and present perfect continuous)Past tenses (past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect continuous)Future tenses (future simple, be going to, future continuous, future perfect simple and future perfect continuous)ModalsCan, could, may, might, must, should, will, shall, wouldConditionalsZero conditionalFirst conditionalSecond conditionalThird conditionalMixed conditionalsThe course is written and presented by Chris Jones, an experienced English language teacher, trainer, course designer, examiner and manager, with 20 years of experience in English language teaching.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Parts of Speech

Lecture 2 Parts of speech introduction

Lecture 3 Nouns

Lecture 4 Verbs and verb forms

Lecture 5 Adjectives and adverbs

Lecture 6 Pronouns

Lecture 7 Prepositions, conjunctions, determiners and interjections

Section 3: Present tenses

Lecture 8 Tenses introduction

Lecture 9 Present simple

Lecture 10 Present continuous

Lecture 11 Present perfect simple

Lecture 12 Present perfect continuous

Section 4: Past tenses

Lecture 13 Past simple

Lecture 14 Past continuous

Lecture 15 Past perfect simple

Lecture 16 Past perfect continuous

Section 5: Future tenses

Lecture 17 Future simple (will and 'be going to')

Lecture 18 Future continuous

Lecture 19 Future perfect simple

Lecture 20 Future perfect continuous

Section 6: Modals

Lecture 21 Modals introduction

Lecture 22 'can' and 'could'

Lecture 23 'may' and 'might'

Lecture 24 'must' and 'should'

Lecture 25 'will', 'shall' and 'would'

Lecture 26 The form of modals

Section 7: Conditionals

Lecture 27 Conditionals introduction

Lecture 28 Zero conditional

Lecture 29 First conditional

Lecture 30 Second conditional

Lecture 31 Third conditional

Lecture 32 Mixed conditionals

Section 8: Final thoughts and the English Grammar Crash Course CHEAT SHEET

Lecture 33 Final thoughts

This course is for all candidates preparing to take the Cambridge CELTA, the Trinity TESOL or any other TEFL course, and would like to increase their grammatical knowledge. It is also suitable for current teachers who wish to increase their awareness of English grammar.