The Article Book: Practice toward Mastering a, an, and the

The Article Book: Practice toward Mastering a, an, and theA comprehensive guide and workbook for improving ESL/EFL students' understanding of English articles, The Article Book can be used as either a supplement to any ESL/EFL core text or as a self-study tool for intermediate through advanced learners. Cole involves students in "learning by doing" through an integrated approach to skill acquisition that includes other grammar structures, reading, vocabulary, and speaking.

Each chapter of the book is organized into teachable units or lessons and includes presentation of a grammatical rule with examples, exercises, quizzes, and a comprehensive test. While the fifty rules (and fifteen exceptions) are taught to provide a logical framework for the text and serve as a handy reference, students will learn through guided practice instead of memorization.
Fish Trek is a well-designed interactive computer game designed specifically to help teach English article usage. It offers six game levels, ten levels of difficulty, and a comprehensive practice session. While Fish TrekThe Article Book, the book and the software can be used separately.

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This comprehensive guide and workbook for improving students' understanding of English articles, first teaches the most common elements of article use and then the more advanced use of articles Fish Trek: An Adventure in Articles(see p. 147)is feature-laden, arcade-style MAC software that supports The Article Book, or the text can be used alone. Games A-J correspond to Parts A-J in the book. The Article Book; -puts articles in real contexts -reinforces many intermediate grammar objectives -provides a variety of activities and extensive reading at an intermediate level -includes quizzes, tests and an answer key -is supported by software --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.