Grammar tips

Oxford Practice Grammar Lesson Links Basic

Because, in case, so, so that This lesson from Oxford Practice Grammar Basic looks at giving reasons for and talking about the results of something. Download the unit in colour or black & white Lesson Links teacher's notes & worksheets Oxford Practice Grammar Lesson Links Intermediate Third Conditional Help your students talk about imaginary situations using the Third Conditional with this lesson from Oxford Practice Grammar Intermediate. Download the unit in colour or black & white Lesson Links teacher's notes & worksheets Oxford Grammar Tips It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another - but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students. Afraid to or afraid of? What's the difference and when do we use them? Help your elementary to intermediate students learn the difference with these handy tips. Download Uses of it These grammar tips for intermediate to advanced students are a reminder of when to use this impersonal pronoun in different expressions. Download www.oup.com/elt

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Oxford Practice Grammar Lesson Links - Basic

Must/have to, mustn't/don't have to Help your students talk about obligation using must/have to, mustn't and don't have to with this unit from Oxford Practice Grammar Basic, Lesson Links teacher's notes, and worksheets for your students.* Download the unit in colour or black & white Lesson Links teacher's notes & worksheets

Oxford Practice Grammar Lesson Links - Intermediate

Too and enough Help your students understand the difference between too and enough and when to use them with this unit from Oxford Practice Grammar Intermediate, Lesson Links teacher's notes, and worksheets for your students.* Download the unit in colour or black & white Lesson Links teacher's notes & worksheets * All Lesson Links teacher's notes and worksheets are newly written and based on units from the Oxford Practice Grammar series. Find out more about this series.

Oxford Grammar Tips

It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another - but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students.

Continuing the theme of obligation, do your elementary to intermediate students need help understanding the difference between should and ought to? Try these handy tips!
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If your intermediate to advanced students need to know about compound nouns then download these tips about using two nouns together.
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Lesson Links

Basic

Demonstrate and practise using comparative adjectives with Lesson Links teacher's notes, and worksheets for your students.

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Intermediate

Help your intermediate students understand when to use there is and it is with Lesson Links teacher's notes, and worksheets for your students.

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Grammar Tips

It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another - but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students.

Use these handy tips to help your elementary to intermediate students understand the difference between themselves and each other, as well as how to use the and a superlative adjective without a noun.

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If your intermediate to advanced students need help understanding how to use a conjunction between two clauses or how the third conditional works, then they need these handy tips!

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Lesson Links

Basic

Present and explain the different uses of demonstratives like this, that, these and those.
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Intermediate

Help your students distinguish between and become confident in using some and any.
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Grammar Tips

It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another - but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students.

If your elementary to intermediate students need some help with knowing when not to use an article (a/an or the), or the difference between like and would like, then they need these handy tips!
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If your intermediate to advanced students need some help with understanding the different meanings of rather or knowing when to use fewer and less, try out these handy tips!
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Lesson links

Basic

Help your students understand how to build sentences effectively with these grammar tips on the basic building blocks of language - nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns and more. This unit is from Oxford Practice Grammar Basic, with Lesson Links teacher's notes and worksheets for your students.

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Intermediate

Increase your students' understanding of the difference between the active and the passive, as well as their confidence in creating active and passive sentences. This unit is taken from Oxford Practice Grammar Intermediate, with Lesson Links teacher's notes and worksheets for your students.

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Grammar Tips

It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another - but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students.

If your elementary to intermediate students need some help with understanding uncountable nouns, or how to construct sentences using a lot of/lots of, then they need these handy tips!

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If your intermediate to advanced students are uncomfortable with negative uses of may, might and could, or the use of may in questions, then try out these handy tips!

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Grammar lessons

Basic

Help your students really get to know how to use the imperative. Try this unit from Oxford Practice Grammar Basic, with Lesson Links teacher's notes and worksheets for your students.
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Intermediate

Help your students gain confidence in choosing between who, what, and which in questions. Try this unit from Oxford Practice Grammar Intermediate, with Lesson Links teacher's notes and worksheets for your students.
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Grammar Tips

It's not always easy to explain when you use a particular grammar structure instead of another – but collect these handy tips and you'll soon have a useful bank of ready-made explanations! You can also print them out and give them to your students.

If your elementary to intermediate students need some help with understanding how to form contractions, particularly how not to confuse it's/its and who's/whose, then they need these handy tips!
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If your intermediate to advanced students need some help with understanding how to form polite imperatives and requests, as well as when to use must and have to, try out these handy tips!
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Future plans

Using 'going to' and the present continuous are two ways we can talk about our future plans and arrangements in English. In this programme we learn more about them and the differences between them. Our challenger Sung Hyeon from South Korea has to describe her future plans when trying to find a space in her busy diary for a meeting with Callum.






Download Sung Hyeon's diary from the challenge (pdf - 17 K)


Download Nuala's grammar explanation and table (pdf - 28 K)


Download this programme (mp3 - 1.8 MB)

Now it's your turn to practise future plans. Go to our quiz page on this subject here.