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Cambridge Grammar for IELTS with Answers and Audio CD
This book is ideal for students preparing for the International English Language Testing system (IELTS). Students first listen to the grammar in context and are then encouraged to analyse the language themselves before looking at the rules and practising
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270 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2007
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July 26, 2020
I am a full-time IELTS teacher and have been using this book for four years in my class on the Gold Coast in Queensland. The book has both good points and bad points, and I will go into both below ...
Firstly, although Cambridge market this book as a "grammar" for IELTS text, a lot of the content reads more like a general English ESL text. A lot of the early chapters, while they can certainly be used in the IELTS exam, seem a little out of place at times. The later chapters are more IELTS-centric, including practice for likelihood, organising text, passives and text position.
Each unit in the text follows the same pattern: a warm-up listening section, a grammar explanation section, a grammar activities section, and an exam section. Each grammar activities section has about four activities, with the first couple being more general English style,and the last couple usually more IELTS-focused. This isn't exactly a bad way of doing things, but it does mean a lot of the practice might not be that useful for the IELTS exam.
I use this text in the classroom only when it directly supports the grammar points studied in our main text (Foundation IELTS Masterclass). In a ten week course, I cover about half the chapters in this book, with a heavier emphasis on the later chapters. The chapters, for those who are interested, are:
1. Present tenses
2. Past tenses 1
3. Present perfect
4. Past tenses 2 (EXCELLENT)
5. Future 1
6. Future 2
7. Countable and uncountable nouns
8. Referring to nouns
9. Pronouns and referencing
10. Adjectives and adverbs (EXCELLENT)
11. Comparing things (EXCELLENT)
12. The noun phrase
13. Modals 1
14. Modals 2 (EXCELLENT)
15. Reported speech
16. Verb + verb patterns (EXCELLENT)
17. Likelihood based on conditions 1
18. Likelihood based on conditions 2
19. Prepositions
20. Relative clauses (EXCELENT)
21. Ways of organising text (EXCELLENT)
22. The passive (EXCELLENT)
23. Linking ideas (EXCELLENT)
24. Showing your position in a text (EXCELLENT)
25. Nominalisation in written English (EXCELLENT)
Anthony Schultz
www.goldcoastielts.com
Firstly, although Cambridge market this book as a "grammar" for IELTS text, a lot of the content reads more like a general English ESL text. A lot of the early chapters, while they can certainly be used in the IELTS exam, seem a little out of place at times. The later chapters are more IELTS-centric, including practice for likelihood, organising text, passives and text position.
Each unit in the text follows the same pattern: a warm-up listening section, a grammar explanation section, a grammar activities section, and an exam section. Each grammar activities section has about four activities, with the first couple being more general English style,and the last couple usually more IELTS-focused. This isn't exactly a bad way of doing things, but it does mean a lot of the practice might not be that useful for the IELTS exam.
I use this text in the classroom only when it directly supports the grammar points studied in our main text (Foundation IELTS Masterclass). In a ten week course, I cover about half the chapters in this book, with a heavier emphasis on the later chapters. The chapters, for those who are interested, are:
1. Present tenses
2. Past tenses 1
3. Present perfect
4. Past tenses 2 (EXCELLENT)
5. Future 1
6. Future 2
7. Countable and uncountable nouns
8. Referring to nouns
9. Pronouns and referencing
10. Adjectives and adverbs (EXCELLENT)
11. Comparing things (EXCELLENT)
12. The noun phrase
13. Modals 1
14. Modals 2 (EXCELLENT)
15. Reported speech
16. Verb + verb patterns (EXCELLENT)
17. Likelihood based on conditions 1
18. Likelihood based on conditions 2
19. Prepositions
20. Relative clauses (EXCELENT)
21. Ways of organising text (EXCELLENT)
22. The passive (EXCELLENT)
23. Linking ideas (EXCELLENT)
24. Showing your position in a text (EXCELLENT)
25. Nominalisation in written English (EXCELLENT)
Anthony Schultz
www.goldcoastielts.com
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