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Grammar, Vocabulary and Everything in Between
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Versatile’s Guide to using SkELL and VersaText and lots more

Just task me!
James Thomas



GVEB offers a completely new and fresh way of studying grammar and vocabulary and everything in between. It is a  language workbook for curious and creative learners of English who are at least at the  B1 or IELTS 5 level when they start and who would like to be a helluva lot better when they finish. If they do. It's a challenging journey.

Grammar, Vocabulary and Everything in Between

What does "and everything in between" mean?

Draw a line and at one end put all the most grammar-like things such as tenses, articles and conditionals. At the other end, put the most wordy things like meanings and opposites and irregular nouns.  The things that are left go somewhere along the line: prepositions and adverbs and chunks and phrasal verbs and collocations. Grammar and vocabulary are two ends of one continuum. 

If this makes any sense to you, keep reading. This book might be for you. 

It's full of tasks: tasks that make you think about language in new ways, that make you think about learning in new ways, that expand your grammar, vocabulary and everything in between. 

You will be constantly problem solving, working with real language to see how thousands of people before you have already used a piece of language. 

You do most of the tasks with several online tools, so be online!

If you are creative and curious, you'll love learning language in these ways.

What if you don't? That's OK. There is no one size fits all. We are all different.
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Each unit in the book has a webpage: click on its title on the right.

​(At the moment, everything is under construction ... like the book – it is forthcoming).

You'll find there a brief statement about the Unit, maybe some links, screenshots, downloads and answers to tasks.  You'll see.

This book will be available from Lulu, which  almost always offers discounts via codes which are shown on the spotlight page.

Links to each Unit's resources

Introduction for teachers
​Unit 1 Learning language
Unit 2 Meet VersaText
Unit 3 Meet SkELL
Unit 4 Parts of speech 
Unit 5 Words and word forms
Unit 6 Chunks
Unit 7 Functional phrases
Unit 8 Recipes for cooking up words
Unit 9 Foreign words in English
Unit 10 Something
Unit 11 Words in meaningful relationships
Unit 12 Content words combine in grammar structures
Unit 13 Content words combine with prepositions
Unit 14 Collocation: pairs of content words
Unit 15 Content words in grammar patterns
Unit 16 Word templates
Unit 17 Trad Gram

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  • Home
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    • Chunks
    • Online resources
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    • Word lists
    • Grammar Patterns
    • Vocabulary Notebooks
    • Pronunciation Set
    • SST
    • Word Rose
    • Statues
    • Gallery
    • Topic Trails >
      • Czech Walking Trails
      • Wangaratta
      • Amour
      • Mad Cows Disease
      • Jamal
  • VersaText
    • VersaText Info
    • VersaText texts
  • E-learning
    • Versatile Moodle
  • About