John,

We'd be very pleased to have you and your students help us pilot the 
new book.  Within the next two weeks we'll  have our first three 
parts (nouns and noun phrases, verbs, sentence patterns) ready to go. 
I can send them to you in pdf format.  You can simply reproduce the 
student lessons or make transparencies--whatever works.

If you are getting underway sooner, I can send you the first section 
separately.


Martha





>Martha,
>   I can't wait for your book to be released. In Japan the long summer
>vacation ends at the end of August and I will be introducing to my
>students sentence patterns and diagrams adapted from UEG. I have canvassed
>several teacher/education/linguistic forums online in Japan but can find
>nobody who is teaching grammar along these lines. Similarly there is
>nobody apparently teaching grammar in schools in the functional
>grammar/Halliday perspective. Discussion of grammar seems to be limited to
>scholarly exchange of views on esoteric subjects.(I share the same sense
>of trepidation as Trudy when contacting these lofty venues - I feel like a
>midget raching for the shelf)
>  U.S.A. supplies most of the English teachers here in Japan and I guess
>they were influenced by the anti-grammar movement - I hear was prevalent
>in their schooldays. Please let me know if I can trial any of your work in
>my Japanese classes.
>      John
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