Chapter 1(“Magic”) of the new Scenario Book One: Beginning to Use English Grammar in Context, pages 5-16
12 pages
Who It’s For:(Teachers & Helpers of) (High) Beginning Learners
Why It’s Useful:Grammar instruction often begins with naming recognizable images and real things, which requires use of the subject pronouns this, that, it; these, those, theywith present forms of the verb be. This colorful update of a “Magic-Show Scenario” grabs learners’ attention to basically fun situations, exercises, and activities that work.
What You’ll Do:
[1] Acquire or review third-person statements with be(singular/plural, affirmative/negative) by hearing, reading, choosing, saying, writing, and otherwise using them in illustrated and real contexts that name things.
[2] Go beyond the directed presentations, explanations, exercises, and activities to incorporate the patterns into your own use of English.