Focus on Grammar 3 with Essential Online Resources

by Fuchs, Marjorie; Bonner, Margaret; Westheimer, Miriam

• ISBN13: 9780134583297
• ISBN10: 0134583299
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-08-26
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL
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Summary

Building on the success of previous editions, Focus on Grammar , Fifth Edition continues to leverage its successful four-step approach that lets learners move from comprehension to communication within a clear and consistent structure. Centered on thematic instruction, Focus on Grammar combines comprehensive grammar coverage with abundant practice, critical thinking skills, and ongoing assessment, helping students communicate confidently, accurately, and fluently in everyday situations.

The Fifth Edition continues to incorporate the findings of corpus linguistics in grammar notes, charts, and practice activities, while never losing sight of what is pedagogically sound and useful.

New to This Edition

• New and updated content showcases culturally relevant topics of interest to modern learners.
• Updated grammar charts and redesigned grammar notes with clear, corpus-informed grammar explanations reflect real and natural language usage, allowing students to grasp the most important aspects of the grammar.
• Expanded communicative activities encourage collaboration and application of target grammar in a variety of settings.
• New unit-ending From Grammar to Writing section allows students to apply grammar in writing through structured tasks from pre-writing to editing.
• New assessment tools, including course diagnostic tests, formative and summative assessments, and a flexible gradebook, are closely aligned with unit learning outcomes to inform instruction and measure progress.
• FOG Go app for iPhone® and Android® lets students easily navigate Student Book audio clips on their phone or tablet.
• Updated for the Fifth Edition, MyEnglishLab: Focus on Grammar offers students engaging practice and video grammar presentations anytime, anywhere with immediate feedback and remediation tasks to help promote accuracy.

Other Highlights

• Scaffolded exercises help learners bridge the gap between identifying grammatical structures and using them with confidence and accuracy.
• High-interest readings in multiple genres expose students to the form, meaning, and use of grammar in natural contexts.
• Key vocabulary taught, practiced, and recycled throughout the unit ensures acquisition.
• Listening tasks give students multiple opportunities to focus on spoken English and develop listening skills.
• Mapped to the Global Scale of English.

Table of Contents

Welcome to Focus on Grammar v

The Focus on Grammar Unit viii

Scope and Sequence xiv

About the Authors xxvi

Acknowledgments xxvii

Reviewers xxviii

Credits xxix

PART 1 Present and Past 2

UNIT 1 Present Progressive and Simple Present 4

UNIT 2 Simple Past 18

UNIT 3 Past Progressive and Simple Past 33

UNIT 4 Used to and Would 47

UNIT 5 Wh- Questions 61

PART 2 The Future 72

UNIT 6 Future 74

UNIT 7 Future Time Clauses 91

PART 3 Present Perfect 102

UNIT 8 Present Perfect: Since and For 104

UNIT 9 Present Perfect: Already, Yet, and Still 118

UNIT 10 Present Perfect: Indefinite Past 129

UNIT 11 Present Perfect and Simple Past 144

UNIT 12 Present Perfect Progressive and Present Perfect 157

PART 4 Modals and Similar Expressions 172

UNIT 13 Ability: Can, Could, Be able to 174

UNIT 14 Permission: Can, Could, May, Do you mind if 189

UNIT 15 Requests: Can, Could, Will, Would, Would you mind 202

UNIT 16 Advice: Should, Ought to, Had better 214

PART 5 Nouns, Quantifiers, and Articles 228

UNIT 17 Nouns and Quantifiers 230

UNIT 18 Articles: Indefinite and Definite 243

PART 6 Adjectives and Adverbs 258

UNIT 19 Adjectives and Adverbs 260

UNIT 20 Adjectives: Comparisons with As . . . as and Than 276

UNIT 21 Adjectives: Superlatives 290

UNIT 22 Adverbs: As . . . as, Comparatives, Superlatives 302

PART 7 Gerunds and Infinitives 316

UNIT 23 Gerunds: Subject and Object 318

UNIT 24 Infinitives after Certain Verbs 330

UNIT 25 More Uses of Infinitives 342

UNIT 26 Gerunds and Infinitives 355

PART 8 Pronouns and Phrasal Verbs 368

UNIT 27 Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns 370

UNIT 28 Phrasal Verbs 384

PART 9 More Modals and Similar Expressions 396

UNIT 29 Necessity: Have (got) to, Must, Can’t 398

UNIT 30 Expectations: Be supposed to 414

UNIT 31 Future Possibility: May, Might, Could 427

UNIT 32 Present Conclusions: Must, Have (got) to, May, Might, Could, Can’t 438

Appendices 453

Glossary of Grammar Terms 469

Unit Review Answer Key 475

Information Gaps, Student B 485

Index 489