Your Top 50 English Questions Answered
About this ebook
Drawing on decades of language teaching experience and studying examples of everyday language the way it’s actually used, Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley have selected the 50 most frequently asked questions about English from their popular interactive Facebook group, English Questions Answered. If you’ve ever asked questions like these:
• What’s the difference between I like to dance and I like dancing?”
• Should it be I study at school or I study in school?
• What’s the difference between large and big?”
• Is it true that we can’t use the present perfect continuous in the negative?
then this book is for you. You’ll find more than answers to the questions—you’ll get a discussion of why the issue matters (if it does!) and how apply your new understanding of the structures in question to similar topics. Each lesson concludes with a summary called What I’d Tell My Students, which offers a succinct answer to the question if it comes up in class, exactly the way Hugh and Andrew would answer it.
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About the author
Hugh Dellar has over twenty-five years’ experience in ELT – English Language Teaching – and is the co-founder of the online school and training company Lexical Lab. He has co-authored two five-level General English series, Outcomes and Innovations, both published by National Geographic Learning, as well as one level of the high-school series Perspectives. His first methodology book, Teaching Lexically, came out via Delta Publishing in 2016. Most recently, he has worked on two levels of the new Pearson General English series, Roadmap. In addition, he is a life-long Arsenal supporter, obsessive hoarder of obscure 1960s vinyl, keen reader, and general bon viveur.
Andrew Walkley has been in ELT for 30 years now. He has worked in Spain as well as the UK and has conducted talks, workshops, and short courses in around 30 countries around the world. Outside of teaching he keeps fit through running, playing football, and long walks. He has an allotment where he grows vegetables – and a lot of weeds. He enjoys reading – both fiction (favourite author: Anne Tyler) and non-fiction. He cooks, he cleans, he watches TV, and he likes a kip in the afternoon.
