This is a practical book. It offers you a variety of lessons and activities for everyday use in your foreign language classes. Our aim is to stimulate the imagination, humor and creativity of your learners. The language structures we focus on in this collection are ones which our research into classroom practice and feedback from teachers of various nationalities have shown to be particularly difficult to get across successfully | THE RESOURCEFUL TEACHER Series Günter Gerngross Herbert Puchta Scott Thornbury Teaching Grammar Creatively S Tsècon J ast simple Wljensecond condm j J .regressive ni Mheri h Pre c Reporte Future prese rA reser Günter Gemgross Herbert Puchta Scott Thornbury HELMING LANGUAGES Acknowledgements Thanks to Jane Arnold for providing a shady tree intellectual challenge and the right atmosphere for a key discussion in Seville without which this book probably would have never been written. Thank you Jane Mario Rinvolucri for his comments at an early stage of the previous manuscript for this book and for being a friend and mentor for many years whose ideas have frequently brought new perspectives and insights into our work. Earl W. Stevick whose books have had a lot of influence on our work. Robert Dilts for what he taught us about creativity and the mental strategies of outstanding people. See bibliography for details of published work. A number of colleagues for their support and comments Tessa Woodward Rick Cooper Nathalie Hess Adrian Underhill and Judy Baker. Seth Lindstroemberg for his editorial work and Caroline Petherick for proofreading. Lucia Astuti and Markus Spielmann from Helbling Languages fortheir encouragement and support. Gunter Gerngross Herbert Puchta Scott Thornbury Teaching Grammar Creatively by Gunter Gerngross Herbert Puchta Scott Thornbury HELBLING LANGUAGES 2006 All rights reserved no part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers. Photocopying of materials from this book for classroom use is permitted. First published 2006 Reprinted 2007 ISBN 978-3-902504-29 6 Edited by Seth Lindstromberg Designed by Gabby Design Cover by Capolinea Illustrated by Piet Luth Printed byAthesia Every effort has been made to trace the owners of any copyright material in
