Aramas
Joined: 13 Feb 2004
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Location: Slightly left of Centre
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 Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:10 am Post subject: Oxford Pocket English Texts |
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Has anyone used these? There's Michael Swan's "Oxford Pocket Basic English Usage", AJ & M Thomson's "Oxford Pocket English Grammar", and J & M Sedl's "Oxford Pocket English Idioms".
Would they be adequate for a weight-conscious TEFL teacher?
Any other light texts that anyone can recommend? |
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rusmeister
Joined: 15 Jun 2006
Posts: 867
Location: Russia
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Depends where you're going. In many major cities worldwide you can get grammars for students, which is what you need to understand - what the students don't know - in order to teach. Despite its having gone PC in recent years, and having some holes, particularly in the upper levels of grammar, I'd recommend Round-Up, esp the 3rd level, for its excellent tables, good mix of pictures and quantity of exercise practice. The PC does offend me, particularly the pathology behind depicting men as doing almost all of the housework and childcare (a feminist's dream), but it's by-and-large as good as grammar gets. It's readily available in Moscow and much of Eastern Europe, anyway. Murphy's grammar is more available, but it sucks by comparison. Stay far away from American publications!!! (I say this, as an American, with shame.) |
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