Focus on Grammar 5, Vol. 5
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With a fresh new design and a host of updated exercises and activities, the popular Focus on Grammar series is more practical and accessible than ever. Known for its focus on English grammar through contextualized listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, this lively integrated skills course helps students bridge the gap between comprehending grammatical structures and actually using them.Centered on thematic instruction, Focus on Grammar combines controlled and communicative practice in a consistent approach that’s a proven success among students at all levels. Each unit progresses through four steps: Grammar in Context, Grammar Presentation, Focused Practice, and Communication Practice, using a unique format that makes the program easy for students to understand —- and for teachers to implement.Each Student Book features: Clear presentations and charts that make grammar easy to learn. Creative activities that stimulate communication. New high-interest readings that are rich in content. From Grammar to Writing sections that build composition skills. Review Tests to confirm progress and improve scores on standardized tests. New Internet activities for individual, pair, or group work. Components (available separately): Workbook offers a wealth of additional exercises. Audio CD provides opportunities for both task-based and extended listening. CD-ROM software features contextualized, interactive activities for listening, reading, and writing practice. Teacher’s Manual includes numerous teaching tips, audioscripts for all recorded exercises, and a CD-ROM with PowerPoint presentations and blackline masters. Also includes Student Book Answer Key. New Assessment Package for each lever features placement, diagnostic, and achievement tests; general proficiency tests; audio CD with scripts; and test-generating software with thousands of items to create class-appropriate tests. Transparencies of all grammar charts in the Student Books help instructors point out important patterns and structures. Test-generating CD-ROM allows teachers to create and customize tests quickly and easily, and is available alone or in the Assessment Package. Companion Website provides students with grammar practice in new contexts through web-based exercises.
PART I: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTUREUNIT 1 Present and Future TimeTravel magazine article about learning how to bargain:It’s a BargainUNIT 2 Past TimeSocial science magazine article about an unusual marriage:A Marriage Made on the Internet?UNIT 3 Simple and Progressive: Action and Non-action VerbsMagazine article about the effects of technology:What is Technology Doing to Us?FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITINGThe SentenceREVIEW TESTPART II: MODALS AND OTHER AUXILIARIESUNIT 4 Be and Auxiliaries in Additions, Tags, and Short AnswersPsychology magazine article about birth order:Does It Matter When You Were Born?UNIT 5 Modals to Express Degrees of Necessity Travel magazine article about cultural differences:What We Should and Shouldn’t Have DoneUNIT 6 Modals to Express Degrees of CertaintyHistory magazine article about the discovery of America:Who Really Discovered America?FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Topic SentencesREVIEW TEST PART III: NOUNSUNIT 7 Count and Non-Count NounsTranscript of a TV presentation by a food and nutrition expert:Concerned About Food? Ask the Expert UNIT 8 Definite and Indefinite ArticlesScience magazine article about an environmental disaster:The Real Mystery of Easter IslandUNIT 9 QuantifiersHistory magazine article about money:What’s Happening to Cash?UNIT 10 Modification of Nouns Magazine article about expectations:The Expectation Syndrome: I Hope for It, but I Don’t Expect ItFROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING AgreementREVIEW TESTPART IV: ADJECTIVE CLAUSESUNIT 11 Adjective Clauses: Review and ExpansionPsychology magazine article about personality types:What Type Are You?UNIT 12 Adjective Clauses with Prepositions; Adjective PhrasesMovie review:Hobbits and Other Creatures FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITINGPunctuation of Adjective Clauses and PhrasesREVIEW TESTPART V: PASSIVE VOICEUNIT 13 The Passive: Review and ExpansionNewspaper article about an unsolved mystery:Did He Get Away with It? UNIT 14 The Passive to Describe Situations and to Report Opinions Social science article about an unusual group of people and their favoriteanimals:Sacred BeastsFROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING ParallelismREVIEW TESTPART VI: GERUNDS AND INFINITIVESUNIT 15 GerundsPsychology magazine article about types of friends:Friends UNIT 16 InfinitivesMagazine article about procrastination:Seize the DayFROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Parallelism of Gerunds and InfinitivesREVIEW TESTPART VII: ADVERBSUNIT 17 Adverbs: Functions, Types, Placement, and Meaning Transcript of a radio call-in show about military service:Time to Sound OffUNIT 18 Adverb ClausesNewspaper editorial about sports:Are Sports Still Sporting?UNIT 19 Adverb and Adverbial PhrasesNews magazine article about compassion:CompassionUNIT 20 ConnectorsPsychology magazine article about memory:Try to RememberFROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Sentences and FragmentsREVIEW TESTPART VIII: NOUN CLAUSES UNIT 21 Noun Clauses: Subjects, Objects, and ComplementsHumorous storyabout brothers competing for their mother’s love:The Three BrothersUNIT 22 Direct and Indirect SpeechJournalism textbook article about the accuracy of news reporting:Is News Reporting Accurate?FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING: Writing Direct and Indirect SpeechREVIEW TESTPART IX: CONDITIONALS AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE UNIT 23 Conditionals; Other Ways to Express Unreality Story from psychology magazine about trusting intuition:IntuitionUNIT 24 More Conditions; the SubjunctiveSocial science magazine article about aging:Those Happy Golden Years?FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Avoiding Run-on Sentences and Comma SplicesREVIEW TESTAPPENDICES Irregular Verbs Common Non-Action Verbs Non-Action Verbs Sometimes Used in the Progressive Irregular Noun PluralsCommon Non-Count Nouns Common Ways of Making Non-Count Nouns Countable Nouns Often Used with the Definite Article Countries Whose Names Contain the Definite Article Selected Geographical Features Whose Names Contain the Definite Article Verbs Used in the Passive Followed by a That Clause Common Stative Passive Verbs + Prepositions Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund Common Adjective + Preposition Combinations Common Verbs Followed by the Infinitive Verbs Followed by the Gerund or Infinitive Without a Significant Change in Meaning Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive With a Significant Change in Meaning Verbs Followed by Noun / Pronoun + Infinitive Common Adjectives Followed by the Infinitive Common Sentence Adverbs Words That Begin Dependent Clauses Transitions: Sentence Connectors Transitions: Blocks of Text Reporting Verbs Verbs and Expressions Followed by the Subjunctive (Base Form)GRAMMAR GLOSSARYREVIEW TEST ANSWER KEYINDEX
