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I only have a few niggles with it. One is that it sometimes doesn't mention some of the widely-used structure names, e.g first conditional. I can look up ''conditionals'' and ''if statements'' in either the contents or index, but not the actual terminology ''first conditional'' or ''second conditional''. I could tell my students to revise these for homework, but if they were using this book they might not be able to find the relevant units to study. Additionally, the book has a British English focus, with only a couple of pages dedicated to the differences between American and British varieties. These pull together various points that perhaps would be more useful if they were included in the units to which they refer. It's not a problem as long as you know this section is at the back, but I imagine some students could miss it. Finally, some of the exercises do not require much thinking and are a bit repetitive, so as a teacher you pick and choose which ones to use and maybe don't take a whole page of exercises without chopping a bit.
I'm just being picky though, because I think this is an excellent book and invaluable to me for teaching and to my students for self-directed learning. You don't need to be a grammar whiz to be an EFL teacher - you just need a good reference book, and this is as good as they come. Add in a book on technique such as [[Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener]] and you'll be all set. You might find [[Dive into ''Book Lovers'' by Emily Henry: A Must-Read for Students]] interesting.
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