Preparing for English teacher training and need to brush up on the basics?
A look at grammar with a few dad jokes thrown in, this grammar module covers the basics, no more, no less.
Best done together with the Language Analysis and Language Practice Module - perfect for pre-CELTA prep. (5 + hours).
The ELTCampus Grammar Refresher and Language Awareness Courses are focused on exactly what you need to be aware of going into a training course such as the Cambridge CELTA or Trinity Cert TESOL. No more no less.
If you are teaching English and wish to understand certain basic grammar forms and purposes better, then this is also the course for you. We recommend you combine this module with our other modules that look into how we present language, analyse, and practice it.
English level B2+
Meet your tutor...
FREE PREVIEWThinking of being an English teacher? Preparing for English Teacher Training: What course to take? What jobs are out there?
FREE PREVIEWPutting grammar in its place.
FREE PREVIEWWhat is Language Awareness?
FREE PREVIEWDiagnostic test: How prepared are you for the technical side of the online CELTA?
FREE PREVIEWCommon mistakes that speakers of English as another language make
The Simple English Sentence
Adjective, Subject, Verb, Adverb
Comprehension Check
Article, Modal Auxiliary Verb, Infinitive
Article, Primary Auxiliary Verb, Infinitive
Pronoun, Preposition
Comprehension Check
Preposition, Object Case
Noun Phrase, Preposition Phrase, Adverbial Phrase
Gerund (+ING form), Linking Verb, Subject Complement
Comprehension Check
What are Nouns?
FREE PREVIEWSort these Nouns
Activity Feedback
What are Pronouns?
Can you replace some of these nouns with pronouns to give the text a better flow without making it confusing?
Apply to Your Teaching
Concrete and Abstract Nouns
Activity: Define the mistake
Activity: Check your knowledge of these determiners and quantifiers
Apply to Your Teaching
Activity: Collective Nouns
-ING Form: The difference between a gerund and a participle and why it is a headache.
A quick recap then onward!
FREE PREVIEWHow we use verbs: states, events, past, present, future and progressive
A quick verb recap
How we use verbs: flexible forms for past and future
Noticing the perfect aspect
Contextualising the perfect aspect
Don't go all passive-aggressive on me!
Get, have, passives, actives, muddy paws and hamsters
How to identify an adverb
The different functions of adverbs
Let's identify the function of these adverbs
Identifying adjectives and their functions
Multi-word verbs, as explained by Ms Dixon and Prefix the cat.
A short history of phrasal verbs
Conditional Love
Test Your Understanding
That's all!
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This is the freshest of grammar refresher courses. The gentle, quirky sense of humour pulls you in and makes you feel comfortable, like you're chilling at home with friends. The engaging and slightly twee creative approach grabs and holds your att...
Read MoreThis is the freshest of grammar refresher courses. The gentle, quirky sense of humour pulls you in and makes you feel comfortable, like you're chilling at home with friends. The engaging and slightly twee creative approach grabs and holds your attention and keeps you wondering what might be coming up next. The pace is just right and the sequencing of concepts gently builds that scaffolding you need as a learner teacher, or is that a teacher learner? Like with all animals in performance and presentation, Pronoun and Prefix sometimes threaten to steal the show, and not only because of their names but the endearing antics they get up to! Bring on those phrasal verbs!
Read LessI loved the opportunity of refreshing my grammar and this course is suitable for anybody. It's pleasant and well organized. Thank you Emma!!!
I loved the opportunity of refreshing my grammar and this course is suitable for anybody. It's pleasant and well organized. Thank you Emma!!!
Read LessGreatly enjoyed this informative short course, highly recommend to anyone who is starting their study of language or wants a refresher. Highlights include: amazing ideas for dog names that I will definitely not steal and gorgeous illustrations. -...
Read MoreGreatly enjoyed this informative short course, highly recommend to anyone who is starting their study of language or wants a refresher. Highlights include: amazing ideas for dog names that I will definitely not steal and gorgeous illustrations. - Australia
Read LessThat's totally amazing, relearning what you have already learned and yet you learned a lot this time.
That's totally amazing, relearning what you have already learned and yet you learned a lot this time.
Read LessThis really helped me improve my grammar ahead of taking the CELTA course.
This really helped me improve my grammar ahead of taking the CELTA course.
Read LessI’m using this as a little prep for the CELTA and it is introducing me to things I hadn’t even thought about. Love the way it is set up with the same characters. Good job ELT campus! - UK
I’m using this as a little prep for the CELTA and it is introducing me to things I hadn’t even thought about. Love the way it is set up with the same characters. Good job ELT campus! - UK
Read LessAt first I had the same urge to fidget as I did with Grammar books. That dread. "Let´s get this over and done with." The contrary. The illustration of Neil adds Humour. The explanations are concise. The quizzes...no longer a process of deduction. ...
Read MoreAt first I had the same urge to fidget as I did with Grammar books. That dread. "Let´s get this over and done with." The contrary. The illustration of Neil adds Humour. The explanations are concise. The quizzes...no longer a process of deduction. Thank you
Read LessThe perfect preparation for any 120 hour English teacher training course such as the CELTA. Trinity Cert TESOL or equivalent.
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Emma’s specialism is looking at creative solutions to classroom practice and learning, working with all age groups. She has a background in museum and visual arts education and English language teaching, as well as communications, marketing, video, audio, design and coding. She has also worked in teacher management working with the business side of running language schools and working with agents. She is a visual artist with an active, recognised career spanning 20 + years (emmapratt.com). Her current project is in writing and illustrating for children. She is also a parent and company director.
In learning, her area of interest is in artmaking as a physical, intellectual, and emotional response to the world. She investigates ways in which it can be used in English language contexts to engage children’s brains, challenge their visual schema, and give voice to non-verbal forms of communication. She has contributed to publications and blogs on this subject.
Emma has given workshops at IATEFL and The Image Conference on drawing in the classroom as well as being the 2018 Artist in Residence at IATEFL. She is interested in the role of illustration in storytelling and how to exploit that in the classroom. Emma has been involved in an Artists in Schools programme and in artist residency projects where she has looked at storytelling. Online, she has given drawing and language workshops for children.
Emma has been designing online learning courses since 2013 and was, with Jamie King, a finalist in the ELTons 2014 for Innovation in Teaching Resources.
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