Grammar in Context Book 3

by Elbaum, Sandra N.

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9781413007480

ISBN10:

1413007481

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

4/4/2005

Publisher(s):

Cengage Learning

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Students learn more, remember more, and use grammar more effectively when they learn language in context. GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT presents grammar in interesting, informative readings and then recycles the language and context throughout every activity. Learners gain knowledge and skills in both the grammar structures and topic areas.

Lesson 1

(56)

Grammar The Present Perfect; The Present Perfect Continuous

Context Jobs

An Overview

(1)

Reading Job Resume and Cover Letter

(17)

The Present Perfect Tense---Forms

(1)

The Past Participle

(3)

The Present Perfect---Contractions

(1)

The Present Perfect---Question Formation

(1)

Uses of the Present Perfect Tense---An Overview

(2)

The Present Perfect with Continuation from Past to Present

(2)

Negative Statements with Since, For, and In

(1)

The Present Perfect vs. the Simple Present

(3)

Reading Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

(13)

The Present Perfect Continuous

(5)

The Present Perfect vs. the Simple Past

(2)

The Present Perfect with Repetition from Past to Present

(3)

The Present Perfect vs. the Simple Past with Repetition

(2)

Reading The Occupational Outlook Handbook

(25)

The Present Perfect with Indefinite Past Time---An Overview

(1)

Questions with Ever

(4)

Yet, Already

(3)

Questions with Lately and Recently

(2)

The Present Perfect Continuous with Ongoing Activities

(1)

The Present Perfect with No Time Mentioned

(2)

The Present Perfect vs. the Present Perfect Continuous with No Time Mentioned

(3)

Summary

(1)

Editing Advice

(2)

Test/Review

(2)

Expansion Activities

(3)

Lesson 2

(40)

Grammar Passive Voice; Participles Used as Adjectives; Get + Participles and Adjectives

Context Hollywood

Passive Voice---An Overview

(1)

Reading The Oscars

(10)

The Passive Voice---Form

(3)

The Passive and Active Voice---Uses

(1)

The Passive Voice without an Agent

(2)

The Passive Voice with an Agent

(2)

Verbs with Two Objects

(1)

Reading The History of Animation

(9)

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

(4)

The Passive with Get

(1)

Participles Used as Adjectives

(1)

Reading Charlie Chaplin

(7)

Participles Used as Adjectives to Show Feelings

(4)

Other Past Participles Used as Adjectives

(2)

Reading Being Famous

(13)

Past Participles and Other Adjectives with Get

(2)

Summary

(1)

Editing Advice

(2)

Test/Review

(3)

Expansion Activities

(3)

Lesson 3

(40)

Grammar The Past Continuous; The Past Perfect; The Past Perfect Continuous; Comparison of Past Tenses

Context Disasters and Tragedies

Overview of Past Tenses

(1)

Reading The Columbia Tragedy

(10)

The Past Continuous---Forms

100

(2)

The Past Continuous Tense---Uses

102

(2)

The Past Continuous or the Simple Past

104

(4)

Reading The Titanic

108

(10)

The Past Perfect Tense---Forms

110

(2)

The Past Perfect---Use

112

(3)

When with the Simple Past or the Past Perfect

115

(3)

Reading Wildfires in Southern California

118

(7)

The Past Perfect Continuous---Forms

118

(2)

The Past Perfect Continuous---Uses

120

(3)

The Past Perfect (Continuous) or the Present Perfect (Continuous)

123

(2)

Reading Survivors of the Titanic

125

(12)

Comparison of Past Tenses

126

(4)

Summary

130

(1)

Editing Advice

131

(1)

Test/Review

132

(3)

Expansion Activities

135

(2)

Lesson 4

137

(46)

Grammar Modals---Present and Future; Related Expressions

Context Consumer Warnings

Overview of Modals and Related Expressions

138

(1)

Reading Sweepstakes or Scam?

139

(11)

Possibilities---May, Might, Could

140

(2)

Necessity and Urgency with Must, Have To, Have Got To

142

(2)

Obligation with Must or Be Supposed To

144

(2)

Advice with Should, Ought To, and Had Better

146

(4)

Reading Telemarketing

150

(12)

Permission and Prohibition

151

(3)

Comparing Negative Modals

154

(6)

Making Suggestions

160

(2)

Reading Infomercials

162

(4)

Expectations with Be Supposed To

163

(3)

Reading My Elderly Neighbor

166

(17)

Logical Conclusions

167

(4)

Probability vs. Possibility in the Present

171

(1)

Modals with Continuous Verbs

172

(3)

Summary

175

(1)

Editing Advice

176

(1)

Test/Review

177

(4)

Expansion Activities

181

(2)

Lesson 5

183

(40)

Grammar Modals in the Past

Context The Kennedys and History in the Making

Overview of Modals in the Past

184

(1)

Reading The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

184

(8)

Past Probability (Deduction, Conclusion)

186

(3)

Past Possibility

189

(3)

Reading The Cuban Missile Crisis

192

(5)

Past Direction Not Taken

193

(4)

Reading John Kennedy, Jr.

197

(6)

Past Mistakes

198

(4)

Be Supposed To in the Past

202

(1)

Reading The Media and Presidential Elections

203

(20)

Must Have vs. Had To

205

(2)

Could + Base Form vs. Could Have + Past Participle

207

(2)

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