I decided to write the first edition of this book because I needed it, and as soon as I began to descuss the idea with other teachers, it became clear that many of them felt the same need as I did, and for similar reasons. We all felt that grammar practice was essentially a useful thing to do, but we were dissatisfied with the kinds of exercises we found in our textbooks: mainly conventional form-focused gapfills, sentence completions and matching. ´What we need,´ a group of teachers told me, ´is a book that will gather together the most useful of the game-like or communicative grammar-practice procedures that are in the books we know, plus any more you can think of or find, laid out systematically so that we can look up, say, ´Present perfect´ on Monday morning and find a few good ideas to choose from´.