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 following:Parts 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.