Before Christmas I spent a few months hidden away with my laptop writing about Spanish grammar. Oh, come on, I heard some of you sigh there. But I'm feeling a tad proud (yeah, I know, I'm a saddo) that you can now buy the 2 workbooks I've written on Amazon- an AS grammar book (already out) and an A2 book, which is due to be published on 29th April. The books mirror the content of the AQA text books, but hopefully with my own additional twists!
One of my traditional frustrations when teaching post-16 has always been that my students used to return from a long summer of Devonian fun with heads devoid of any of the grammar knowledge that they'd developed during the GCSE course. Yet straight away I wanted them to start comunicating spontaneously, even on a basic level. For which they'd need a certain level of grammatical knowledge.
At the start of each book is a transition section, designed to include the kind of grammatical structures and advice to get people back up to speed for communicative purposes. It doesn't include the full details of each structure but simply the essentials to develop confidence. And hopefully the books as a whole are delivered in a happy, smiley tone to help people learn and also REMEMBER without it being dull! Grammar should not make you sigh! Anyway, I like them, and hopefully your students will too.
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