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Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners (Practice Makes Perfect) | 
 enlarge | Author: Ed Swick
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 73865
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 192
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0071441328
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.24
EAN: 9780071441322
ASIN: 0071441328
Publication Date: December 7, 2004
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Product Description
pContinuing the success of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, iPractice Makes Perfect English Grammar for ESL Learners/i features well-organized presentations, skill-building exercises, and a focus on practical conversational skills. Here you will find clear explanations accompanied by highlighted examples and boxed summaries of key points. You also get numerous exercises in a variety of formats, including fill-inthe-blank sentences and passages, translations, multiple-choice questions, sentence rewriting, and creative writing exercises. Answers to all questions are provided in the back of the book./p
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It's good, but could be better October 19, 2008
Diane B. GOODPASTURE (Nashville, TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some of my initial excitement about this book faded as I began using it with my adult beginning ESL students. I like it that it's simple and straight forward. I do, however, feel like the grammar explanations could be a bit simpler so that my ESL students could work on their own. I was also a bit perturbed that adverbs and adjectives are not taught back to back. I believe this would make them easier to explain, i.e. adjectives describe and adverbs tell how. Some of the examples used contain past tenses which confused my beginning level students. I would also like it if it had more examples and longer exercises. Over all, it's still a good book and the price is low enough that I can encourage my students to go out and buy themselves copies. br / br /One of the reviewers complained that this book is too rule oriented. My response is that there are lots of conversation type books on the market like, Interchange and Side by Side. The current paradigm in education says that everything has to have lots of deep meaning and be capable of being analyzed. Well, not everything in life has a profound meaning and some things simply have to be memorized. I have been teaching ESL and Spanish for several years now and one thing that I have noticed is that students who trouble themselves to memorize a handful of rules, as opposed to trying to learn it by heart, are the ones who sail right through. I know the commercial says it's cool to think outside the box, but for those who wish to pass math and grammar I suggest conformity.
 ESL helper November 8, 2007
James Kellum (Boulder Creek, CA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
English grammar is tough even for native speakers. If a person is doing it himself,this is one of the best ways to work through the info necessary to reach a working level. By that I mean communicating and understanding what comes back at you. The reason adults have a harder time picking up a language is that they (the adults) are afraid of being embarrassed. Children are fearless. This book, if worked through to the end, will install confidence, and that is 90% of the game.
A good practice book for grammar; not a comprehensive course October 24, 2007
C. C. S. Ryan (Fremont, CA USA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
If you have/are a student who needs focused practice with the basics of English grammar, this book is a good choice. It doesn't really focus on usage, context, etc. That's fine, though--its purpose is practice and review. It's particularly useful for beginner/false beginner students who never learned or have forgotten basic grammar terms (transitive verb, etc.). Of course,these terms and rules should NOT be the focus of any modern ESL/EFL course. (Why? Because that's not how people actually learn to use language.) Nonetheless, the rules and terms are useful for discussing grammar problems, explaining the differences between a student's home languages and English, etc. Get this book as a supplement for a comprehensive, communicative textbook such as _Interchange_ or _Out and About_. br / br /In terms of design and planning, it has lots of white space and a good balance of questions and explanations. Most other grammar-focused books use explanations that are too wordy and hard to understand, and present text-filled pages that are overwhelming to beginners. br / br /As an example, I have a client who is an adult from Japan. He studied English for a year or two in junior high and at a conversation school. Because he had a fair amount of vocabulary and could handle basic conversations ("How are you?" etc.), we started off using an Interchange book. However, I eventually realized that he didn't know terms such as "adjective," which sometimes made it hard for me to explain why a sentence he had written needed to be changed. I picked up this book, and he's really appreciated adding some focused grammar work to our otherwise functional/conversational sessions. We've been following up the grammar work with Mad Libs so that things don't get too boring. He loves the book and uses its nice amount of questions in each section as self-guided homework. br / br /As a bonus, this book is quite inexpensive and thus good for private teaching situations or for self-study.
 The reason people hate grammar February 23, 2006
Virginia Meg (Williamsburg, VA USA)
11 out of 25 found this review helpful
I returned this book because it annoyed me on the very first page. It starts with a discourse about the difference between proper and common nouns. The approach is very rule-oriented rather than real-world-use oriented.
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