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UCL University - English Grammar for Teachers 

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English Grammar for Teachers
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FutureLearn 
Overview

Duration

6 weeks

Total fee

6,914

Mode of learning

Online

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Credential

Certificate

English Grammar for Teachers
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
    Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities.
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English Grammar for Teachers
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Course details

Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • The new national curriculum requires school teachers to teach English grammar, starting in primary school.
  • This course will help to demystify teaching English grammar and ensure it plays a creative and rewarding role in your English classroom teaching. You will explore various ways to teach grammar creatively to primary, secondary, and further education students.
  • The course begins with an introduction to the updated terminology of the national curriculum.
  • As the course progresses, you will deepen your understanding and enhance your teaching of current grammatical concepts, functions, and forms.
  • You will look at the principles behind teaching English grammar and work on embedding grammar into your lessons, making it a useful and fun activity for your students, rather than a box-ticking exercise.
  • Englicious is a free online library of original English grammar and language teaching resources. It contains lesson plans, exercises, videos and assessment materials that you can use as part of your teaching.
  • Through this course, you will learn how to navigate through and effectively use Englicious.orgs English grammar resources.
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English Grammar for Teachers
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Welcome to the course

Course overview

What is grammar? Why and how should it be taught?

Test your knowledge of English grammar

Teaching grammar creatively using the Englicious platform

Summary and feedback

Nouns, pronouns, determiners and adjectives

Nouns and noun phrases

Pronouns

Determiners

Adjectives

Optional bonus materials to explore

Summary and feedback

Adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions

Adverbs and adverb phrases

Prepositions and preposition phrases

Conjunctions

Optional bonus materials to explore

Summary and feedback

Verbs

Verbs: main verbs

Verbs: auxiliary verbs

Tenses in English: the present tense and the past tense

Optional bonus materials to explore

Summary and feedback

Clauses: main clauses, subordinate clauses and clause patterns

Clauses

Clause patterns

Optional bonus materials to explore

Summary and feedback

Grammatical form and grammatical function

Grammatical form and grammatical function

Subject

Object

Adverbial

The relationship between the levels of grammatical form and grammatical function

Optional bonus materials to explore, and Englicious printed resources

Summary of the course and final thoughts

Final test

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