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Inflection and Word Formation in ELT. The Coursebook Family. A brief overview on exercises concerning inflection and word formation. Pearson – Longman's New Opportunities Beginner Elementary Pre-Intermediate Intermediate Upper-Intermediate. 1) Beginner 1/7.
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The Coursebook Family • A brief overview on exercises concerning inflection and word formation. • Pearson – Longman's New Opportunities • Beginner • Elementary • Pre-Intermediate • Intermediate • Upper-Intermediate
1) Beginner 1/7 • First teaches and makes students practice using the correct forms of the verb “to be.” • Then introduces the articles, the subject pronouns and the possessive adjectives.
1) Beginner 2/7 • A typical exercise from the coursebook:
1) Beginner 3/7 • Teaching the plural forms. Teaching can/can't.
1) Beginner 4/7 • Present Simple third person singular “-s” First meeting with “-ing”
1) Beginner 5/7 • The past form of the verb “to be”
1) Beginner 6/7 • Comparative forms (no introduction of the superlatives or the comparatives of more than two-syllable words.
1) Beginner 7/7 • The last pages try to sum up the key grammatical features of the language.
2) Elementary 1/3 • Half of the book is a revision with new, richer texts for vocabulary and fluency enhancement. • The first new information comes with mentioning articles.
2) Elementary 2/3 • Comparatives (now elaborated) • Superlatives introduced
2) Elementary 3/3 • The last Module of the book introduces the Present Perfect.
3) Pre-Intermediate 1/2 • Revises all tenses and previously introduced stuctures. • Introduces Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Future Simple and Future Continuous. • First occurance of transforming words into their correct form (Wordbuilding).
3) Pre-Intermediate 2/2 • Can you complete these sentences about Shakespeare's Hamlet?
4) Intermediate • Revises earlier structures. • Mainly focuses on the Passive Voice, the Reported Speech, defining ↔ non-defining relative clauses and the Conditional Structures. • Requires students to be able to recognise different word classes and transform as many words into a new word class as possible.
5) Upper-Intermediate 1/2 • Revises previously introduced structures. All revisions are in English with charts, timelines and examples. • Introduces the Past Perfect Continuous. • Stuffed with expressions, word building exercises and phrasal verbs (multi-word / multi-part verbs). • Revises forms directly --->
5) Upper-Intermediate 2/2 • Wordbuilding guidelines supplement:
Conclusion • This coursebook family offers inductive opportunities for students to discover grammar features including inflection and word formation (or building). • The first book presents the core features of the language, while the second one revises them and eventually the third one (after another revision) starts building these skills and word-building exercises appear. • The fourth and the last book of the series offer more precise and detailed explanation and always turns to practice (for revising sturctures etc.)