Focus on Grammar 4 / Edition 4

by Marjorie Fuchs, Margaret Bonner

Overview

Focus on Grammar, in its new fourth edition, maintains the proven pedagogy that makes it the most popular contextualized grammar series worldwide. Its unique four-step approach takes students from context to communication — blending content, reading, writing, listening, speaking and critical thinking in a complete program, and preparing students to understand and use English more effectively.

Centered on thematic instruction Focus on Grammar allows students to interact with grammar in realistic contexts and moves them beyond controlled practice to authentic communication.

New features include:

• Updated high-interest readings in multiple genres that expose students to the form, meaning, and use of grammar in natural contexts.
• Key vocabulary is taught, practiced, and recycled throughout each unit, to ensure acquisition.
• Fully redesigned grammar charts and notes that provide greater clarity.
• Explicit pronunciation activities to improve fluency and accuracy.
• Expanded listening tasks allow students to develop a range of listening skills.
• Flexible, ongoing assessment — including unit reviews, diagnostic and achievement tests, and test-generating software — allows students to monitor their own progress and teachers to track students’ mastery. (Test and test-generating software available in the Teacher’s Resource Pack)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132546492
Publisher:	Pearson Education ESL
Publication date:	08/26/2011
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

PART I: Present and Past: Review and Expansion

UNIT 1 Simple Present and Present Progressive

UNIT 2 Simple Past and Past Progressive

UNIT 3 Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Present Perfect Progressive

UNIT 4 Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Editing for Verb Forms

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART II: Future: Review And Expansion

UNIT 5 Future and Future Progressive

UNIT 6 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Avoiding Sentence Fragments

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART III: Negative Questions and Tag Questions, Additions

and Responses

UNIT 7 Negative Yes / No Questions and Tag Questions

UNIT 8 So, Too, Neither, Not either, and But

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Avoiding Repetition with Sentence Additions

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART IV: Gerunds and Infinitives

UNIT 9 Gerunds and Infinitives: Review and Expansion

UNIT 10 Make, Have, Let, Help, and Get

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Using Parallel Forms: Gerunds and Infinitives

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART V: Phrasal Verbs

UNIT 11 Phrasal Verbs: Review

UNIT 12 Phrasal Verbs: Separable and Inseparable

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Using the Appropriate Degree of Formality

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART VI: Adjective Clauses

UNIT 13 Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns

UNIT 14 Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns or When

and Where

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Adding Details with Adjective Clauses

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART VII: Modals: Review and Expansion

UNIT 15 Modals and Similar Expressions: Review

UNIT 16 Advisability in the Past

UNIT 17 Speculations and Conclusions About the Past

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Organizing Ideas

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART VIII: The Passive

UNIT 18 The Passive: Overview

UNIT 19 The Passive with Modals and Similar Expressions

UNIT 20 The Passive Causative

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING:

Changing the Focus with the Passive

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART IX: Conditionals

UNIT 21 Present Real Conditionals

UNIT 22 Future Real Conditionals

UNIT 23 Present and Future Unreal Conditionals

UNIT 24 Past Unreal Conditionals

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Showing Cause and Effect

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART X: Indirect Speech and Embedded Questions

UNIT 25 Direct and Indirect Speech

UNIT 26 Indirect Speech: Tense Changes

UNIT 27 Indirect Instructions, Commands, Requests, and Invitations

UNIT 28 Indirect Questions

UNIT 29 Embedded Questions

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Using Direct and Indirect Speech

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

APPENDICES

1. Irregular Verbs
2. Non-Action Verbs
3. Verbs Followed by the Gerund (Base Form of Verb + -ing)
4. Verbs Followed by the Infinitive (To + Base Form of Verb)
5. Verbs Followed by Objects and the Infinitive
6. Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive
7. Verb + Preposition Combinations
8. Adjective + Preposition Expressions
9. Adjectives Followed by the Infinitive
10. Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives, Adverbs, and Quantifiers
11. Adjectives That Form the Comparative and Superlative in Two Ways
12. Participial Adjectives
13. Reporting Verbs
14. Time Word Changes in Indirect Speech
15. Phrases Introducing Embedded Questions
16. Verbs and Expressions Commonly Used Reflexively
17. Transitive Phrasal Verbs
18. Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
19. Modals and Their Functions
20. Irregular Plural Nouns
21. Spelling Rules for the Simple Present: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
22. Spelling Rules for Base Form of Verb + -ing (Progressive and Gerund)
23. Spelling Rules for the Simple Past of Regular Verbs
24. Spelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) and Superlative (-est) of Adjectives
25. Spelling Rules for Adverbs Ending in -ly
26. Direct Speech: Punctuation Rules
27. Pronunciation Table
28. Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Present: Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
29. Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past of Regular Verbs
30. Capitalization and Punctuation Rules