Next Generation Grammar 4 with MyLab English

by Biesenbach-Lucas, Sigrun; Brantner-Artenie, Donette

• ISBN13: 9780132760577
• ISBN10: 0132760576
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-07-15
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL

Summary

Next Generation Grammar seamlessly blends course work and online content to optimize instruction and provide a 21st century learning experience that will engage and motivate learners.

 

In class = Teacher directed
Thematic lessons, concise presentations and meaningful communicative activities integrate skills with grammar.

 

Online = Student directed
Dynamic practice activities and rich feedback support instruction…whenever, wherever. Also includes a Grammar Coach for quick, engaging review in a student-friendly video format. Ongoing assessment allows teachers to track progress and students to monitor their learning.

 

The four-level series includes:

• Course book available in print or eText format.
• ActiveTeach, a powerful electronic resource for exciting whole-class teaching — allows instructors to project course book pages, play video and audio, and create annotations. Also includes teaching notes.

Table of Contents

Unit 1 BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY

    Chapter 1    Business in Economic Hard Times

        Simple past and past progressive

        Modals of advisability and suggestion

    Chapter 2    Marketing Company Logos

        Simple past and present perfect

        Noun clauses with the subjunctive

    Unit Assessments

 

 

Unit 2    PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONALITY

    Chapter 3    Winning and Losing

        Adjectives and adverbs

        Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns

    Chapter 4    Traits of Successful People

        Adjective clauses with object relative pronouns

        Reducing adjective clauses to adjective phrases

    Unit Assessments

 

         

Unit 3    SOCIETY, CONFLICT, AND JUSTICE

    Chapter 5     Conflict Resolution

        Noun clauses as subjects, objects, and complements

        Gerunds and infinitives as objects

    Chapter 6     Alternative Forms of Justice

        Quantifiers

        Connecting structures for comparison and contrast

    Unit Assessments

 

 

Unit 4    THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA

    Chapter 7    The Digital Gap 

        Equatives

        Comparatives and comparative clauses

        Degree complements

    Chapter 8    Digital Footprints

        Present and future unreal conditionals

        Reported speech

    Unit Assessments

 

 

Unit 5    PLANNING PUBLIC SPACES

    Chapter 9    The Role of Public Spaces in Communities

        Stative passives

        Adjective clauses with where, when, and why

        Adjective clauses with quantifiers

    Chapter 10    The Role of Public Spaces on Campuses

        Subject-verb agreement

        Dynamic passives

    Unit Assessments

    

     

Unit 6    PUBLIC HEALTH: PANDEMICS

    Chapter 11    Current Virus Threats

        Coordinating conjunctions

        Adverbial time clauses and time phrases

    Chapter 12    The Flu Pandemic of 1918

        Past perfect and past perfect progressive

        Past unreal conditionals

    Unit Assessments 

 

 

Unit 7    ERADICATING POVERTY

    Chapter 13    Empowering Women

        Connecting structures of cause / reason

        Conjunctive adverbs of effect

    Chapter 14    Fair Trade

        Articles

        Parallel structures          

    Unit Assessments 

 

 

Unit 8    ANTHROPOLOGY -- BODY ART

    Chapter 15    Body Art in the Workplace 

        Modals and phrasal expressions: Degrees of necessity

        Causatives

    Chapter 16    Cultural Identity through Body Art

        Expressing purpose with infinitives: Using for and so that

        Conjunctive adverbs of exemplification, emphasis, and clarification

    Unit Assessments 

 

 

Unit 9    COMMUNITY SERVICE

    Chapter 17    Professionals Making a Difference

        Gerunds as objects of prepositions

        Reducing adverbial [hrases of cause / reason

    Chapter 18    Youth Making a Difference

        Gerunds and infinitives as subjects and subject complements

        Interaction of verb tenses: Time frame shifts 

    Unit Assessments 

 

 

Unit 10    THE ENVIRONMENT

    Chapter 19    When Predators Disappear

        Infinitives as noun and adjective complements

        Pronoun agreement and reference

    Chapter 20    Vanishing Islands

        Future time

        Modals of prediction and certainty 

    Unit Assessments 

 

 

Appendices

 

A    Irregular Verbs

B    Verbs and adjectives followed by the subjunctive

C    Verbs followed by gerunds and infinitives

D    Common noncount nouns

E    Tense and place / time shifts

F    Common stative passive + preposition combinations

G    Common instransitive verbs

H    Common noun + preposition + gerund, and adjective + preposition + gerund combinations

i      Abstract nouns

J    Adjectives commonly followed by infinitives