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Inflection and Word Formation in ELT

The Coursebook Family

A brief overview on exercises concerning inflection and word formation.

Pearson – Longman's New Opportunities

Beginner

Elementary

Pre-Intermediate

Intermediate

Upper-Intermediate

1) Beginner 1/7

First teaches and makes students practice using the correct forms of the verb “to be.”

Then introduces the articles, the subject pronouns and the possessive adjectives.

1) Beginner 2/7

A typical exercise from the coursebook:

1) Beginner 3/7

Teaching the plural forms. Teaching can/can't.

1) Beginner 4/7

Present Simple third person singular “-s” First meeting with “-ing”

1) Beginner 5/7

The past form of the verb “to be”

1) Beginner 6/7

Comparative forms (no introduction of the superlatives or the comparatives of more than two-syllable words.

1) Beginner 7/7

The last pages try to sum up the key grammatical features of the language.

2) Elementary 1/3

Half of the book is a revision with new, richer texts for vocabulary and fluency enhancement.

The first new information comes with mentioning articles.

2) Elementary 2/3

Comparatives (now elaborated)

Superlatives introduced

2) Elementary 3/3

The last Module of the book introduces the Present Perfect.

3) Pre-Intermediate 1/2

Revises all tenses and previously introduced stuctures.

Introduces Past Continuous, Past Perfect, Present Perfect Continuous, Future Simple and Future Continuous.

First occurance of transforming words into their correct form (Wordbuilding).

3) Pre-Intermediate 2/2

Can you complete these sentences about Shakespeare's Hamlet?

4) Intermediate

Revises earlier structures.

Mainly focuses on the Passive Voice, the Reported Speech, defining ↔ non-defining relative clauses and the Conditional Structures.

Requires students to be able to recognise different word classes and transform as many words into a new word class as possible.

5) Upper-Intermediate 1/2

Revises previously introduced structures. All revisions are in English with charts, timelines and examples.

Introduces the Past Perfect Continuous.

Stuffed with expressions, word building exercises and phrasal verbs (multi-word / multi-part verbs).

Revises forms directly --->

5) Upper-Intermediate 2/2 Wordbuilding guidelines supplement:

Conclusion

This coursebook family offers inductive opportunities for students to discover grammar features including inflection and word formation (or building).

The first book presents the core features of the language, while the second one revises them and eventually the third one (after another revision) starts building these skills and word-building exercises appear.

The fourth and the last book of the series offer more precise and detailed explanation and always turns to practice (for revising sturctures etc.)

Thank you for your attention!