Focus on Grammar 5 / Edition 4

by Jay Maurer

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:	2900132546507
Publication date:	08/14/2011
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

PART I: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

UNIT 1 Present and Future Time

UNIT 2 Past Time

UNIT 3 Simple and Progressive: Action and Non-action Verbs

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

The Sentence

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART II: MODALS AND OTHER AUXILIARIES

UNIT 4 Be and Auxiliaries in Additions, Tags, and Short Answers

UNIT 5 Modals to Express Degrees of Necessity

UNIT 6 Modals to Express Degrees of Certainty

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Topic Sentences

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART III: NOUNS

UNIT 7 Count and Non-Count Nouns

UNIT 8 Definite and Indefinite Articles

UNIT 9 Quantifiers

UNIT 10 Modification of Nouns

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Agreement

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART IV: ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

UNIT 11 Adjective Clauses: Review and Expansion

UNIT 12 Adjective Clauses with Prepositions; Adjective Phrases

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Punctuation of Adjective Clauses and Phrases

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART V: PASSIVE VOICE

UNIT 13 The Passive: Review and Expansion

UNIT 14 The Passive to Describe Situations and to Report Opinions

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Parallelism

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART VI: GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

UNIT 15 Gerunds

UNIT 16 Infinitives

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Parallelism of Gerunds and Infinitives

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART VII: ADVERBS

UNIT 17 Adverbs: Functions, Types, Placement, and Meaning

UNIT 18 Adverb Clauses

UNIT 19 Adverb and Adverbial Phrases

UNIT 20 Connectors

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Sentences and Fragments

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART VIII: NOUN CLAUSES

UNIT 21 Noun Clauses: Subjects, Objects, and Complements

UNIT 22 Direct and Indirect Speech

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING:

Writing Direct and Indirect Speech

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

PART IX: CONDITIONALS AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE

UNIT 23 Conditionals; Other Ways to Express Unreality

UNIT 24 More Conditions; the Subjunctive

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

Avoiding Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices

GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)

REVIEW TEST

APPENDICES

1. Irregular Verbs
2. Common Non-Action Verbs
3. Non-Action Verbs Sometimes Used in the Progressive
4. Irregular Noun Plurals

5. Common Non-Count Nouns
6. Common Ways of Making Non-Count Nouns Countable
7. Nouns Often Used with the Definite Article
8. Countries Whose Names Contain the Definite Article
9. Selected Geographical Features Whose Names Contain the Definite Article
10. Verbs Used in the Passive Followed by a That Clause
11. Common Stative Passive Verbs + Prepositions
12. Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund
13. Common Adjective + Preposition Combinations
14. Common Verbs Followed by the Infinitive
15. Verbs Followed by the Gerund or Infinitive Without a Significant Change in Meaning
16. Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive With a Significant Change in Meaning
17. Verbs Followed by Noun / Pronoun + Infinitive
18. Common Adjectives Followed by the Infinitive
19. Common Sentence Adverbs
20. Words That Begin Dependent Clauses
21. Transitions: Sentence Connectors
22. Transitions: Blocks of Text
23. Reporting Verbs
24. Verbs and Expressions Followed by the Subjunctive (Base Form)