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

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 followingarts 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.

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