Cambridge Grammar and Writing Skills 7, 8 & 9

Grammar and Writing Learners Book 7: Introduce your learners to creative writing and writing for a purpose. They’ll write an urban myth and a report of a school play, helping build their extended writing skills as they progress through the units. Each unit focuses on a different text type such as dialogue, reports or instructions. Model texts in each chapter show learners good examples of each writing type and specific activities help them practise grammar typical of the genre. Learners work individually and collaboratively, developing skills such as creative thinking, planning, drafting, peer evaluation and editing.

Contents:

• 1. Narrating my life - Diary
• 2. Creating suspense - Suspense story
• 3. Sending a message - Letter
• 4. Once upon a time … - Urban myth/modern fairy tale
• 5. Verse animals - Descriptive poem
• 6. Exploring biographies - Biography
• 7. Travelling rhymes - Ballad
• 8. Over to our reporter - Report
• 9. School tales - Short story
• 10. Strange settings - Fantasy
• 11. Describing an event - News report
• 12. Playing a part - Play

1st Edition: Published May 2019

Sample and more info: Learners Book 7 

Grammar and Writing Skills Learners book 8: Introduce your learners to creative writing and writing for a purpose. They’ll rewrite a well-known myth and draft an application letter, helping build their extended writing skills as they progress through the units. Each unit focuses on a different text type such as dialogue, reports or instructions. Model texts in each chapter show learners good examples of each writing type and specific activities help them practise grammar typical of the genre. Learners work individually and collaboratively, developing skills such as creative thinking, planning, drafting, peer evaluation and editing.

Contents:

• 1. Making myths - Myths and legends
• 2. Social stories - Social stories
• 3. Autobiographical adventures - Autobiographical account
• 4. Real-life diaries - Diary
• 5. What's my view? - Review
• 6. My world in a poem - Poem about everyday life
• 7. Building information - Informative and persuasive texts
• 8. Summing you up - Summary
• 9. Applying yourself - Letter of application
• 10. Precious verse - Poem
• 11. Reporting danger - News report
• 12. Dramatic relationships - Ploy.

1st Edition: Published June 2019

Sample and more info: Learners Book 8

Grammar and Writing Skills Learners book 9: Introduce your learners to creative writing and writing for a purpose. They’ll write a play scene and an article about a cultural festival, helping build their extended writing skills as they progress through the units. Each unit focuses on a different text type such as dialogue, recounts, reports or instructions. Model texts in each chapter show learners good examples of each writing type and specific activities help them practise grammar typical of the genre. Learners work individually and collaboratively, developing skills such as creative thinking, planning, drafting, peer evaluation and editing.

Contents:

• 1. People pointers
• 2. Selling a lifestyle
• 3. Natural encounters
• 4. Listen up
• 5. Past reflection
• 6. Between the lines
• 7. More than a play
• 8. Making yourself heard
• 9. Writing about poetry
• 10. Family journeys
• 11. Explaining events
• 12. Finding freedom.

1st Edition: Published July 2019

Sample and more Info:  Learner Book 9

Cambridge Grammer & Writing Skills Teachers Resource 7-9:

Your essential companion to the course, the print and digital teacher’s resource includes everything you need to confidently lead your lessons. It contains full guidance and lesson plans, along with unit warm ups, marking criteria and ideas for giving effective feedback. Suggested plenary activities at the end of each unit give learners a chance to discuss and reflect on what they have covered. The sample and model answers for each text type help you understand what to look for in students’ writing, and differentiation ideas provide opportunities for learners at all levels.

• Guidance on getting the best from the learner’s book with ’How to use this book’
• Support for structuring a writing lesson and ideas to help learners reflect on and refine their writing
• Easily see how the course supports your English learning with links to our Global English and Checkpoint English series
• Understand how Cambridge Grammar and Writing links to the Cambridge International Lower Secondary English and Lower Secondary English as a Second Language curriculum frameworks with full mapping
• Worksheets for every unit encourage learners to discuss their writing – building experience in peer reviewing and developing students’ communication skills

Sample and more Info:  Teachers Resource 7-9