Oral Drills in Sentence Patterns [antikvár]

PREFACE'TO THE SECOND EDITION HOW TO USE THIS BOOK As a result of helpful comments on the first edition of this book, I am taking the opportunity, in this the second edition, of expar mg my advice as to how it should be used. First of all I must make it clear what the book is not. It is not a book for students: it is for the use of teachers in the class-room. And it should not be used by teachers whose mother tongue is not English unless their knowledge of the language is sound, because answers are not provided here and in a number of cases they could be variable.* A further warning is that it is not in any sense a complete course-book, and it is not suitable for absolute beginners. The exercises should prove useful for the inculcation of some common or tricky sentence patterns of spoken English into students who have been learning English for a few months, or students who have learned English for some time but have formed bad habits, have got their structures just wrong', or have never happened to come across certain modes of expression. My aim has been to provide exercises in the spoken language which will be a good deal more disciplined than free conversation, or even 'situated' conversation, but will avoid mere imitation or reading aloud. In each drill students are taught one or more structures, which are given at the top of the exercise. These will be written on the blackboard, with necessary intonation indicated. This, and in some cases some essential vocabulary, is all that will be written during the lesson, as it is vital that the work should be oral, that the students should not be bent over books. For each structure or set of structures, an exercise is provided consisting of from thirty to fifty (or somedmes more) * A teacher who is not completely sure of his own correctness would be helped by the tapes published by Tutor Tape Ltd., where answers are provided and where variations have been obviated as far as possible.