About the Author

I taught E.S.L. to immigrants at George Brown College in Toronto for 27 years, and this teachers' book is the result of refining a methodology which proved very effective. At the risk of sounding immodest, I can report that I received very favorable feedback from the students.

I would like to state here that grammar is the framework of any language and, most importantly, verbs and verb tenses are the core of the grammar. Therefore, grammar and verb tenses are where most of your teaching should be directed.

You can tell your students that if they can reproduce, orally, the grammar presented here, they will speak English very well and that is the truth.

Grant Panter grew up in England and went to Canada as a young man, where, while managing a store, a customer recommended that he consider teaching English as a Second Language in Toronto . After many years at George Brown College he was asked to evaluate student teachers and found, that although they had theoretical knowledge, they were not able to prepare clear, understandable lesson plans and he resolved to remedy that with this book.