Grammar Dimensions 2, Platinum Edition Form, Meaning, and Use

by Riggenbach, Heidi; Samuda, Virginia

• ISBN13: 9780838402689
• ISBN10: 0838402682
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-16
• Publisher: Heinle ELT

Summary

Updated and revised, Grammar Dimensions, Platinum Edition makes teaching grammar easy and effective. Fully annotated Teacher's Editions, well-integrated components, simplified grammar explanations, and new technology resources help both beginning and experienced teachers give their students the skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

Table of Contents

Simple Present	1	(17)
Opening Task	1	(12)
Verbs in the Simple Present Tense (Use)	2	(1)
Simple Present Tense (Form)	2	(2)
Showing How Often Something Happens (Form/Meaning)	4	(7)
Talking About Facts (Use	11	(2)
Use Your English Activities	13	(5)
Present Progressive and Simple Present	18	(16)
Opening Task	18	(13)
Present Progressive Actions in Progress (Use)	20	(1)
Present Progressive (Form)	21	(1)
Simple Present or Present Progressive|? (Use)	22	(4)
Verbs Not Usually Used in the Progressive (Meaning)	26	(2)
States and Actions (Use)	28	(3)
Use Your English Activities	31	(3)
Talking About the Future	34	(10)
Opening Task	34	(10)
Talking about the Future with Will and Be Going to (Meaning)	36	(1)
Will and Be Going To (Form)	37	(1)
Making Predictions: Will or Be Going To? (Use)	38	(1)
Future Plans and Intentions: Be Going to (Use)	39	(2)
Two More Uses of Will: Making Quick Decisions and Serious Promises (Use)	41	(3)
Use Your English Activities	44	(1)
Asking Activities	44	(26)
Opening Task	48	(18)
Review of Yes/No Questions (Form/Meaning(	50	(2)
Review of Wh-Questions (Form/Meaning)	52	(2)
Wh-Questions That Focus on the Subject (Form/Meaning)	54	(3)
Wh-Questions with Rising Intonation: Checking Information (Use)	57	(1)
Choice Questions (Form/Meaning/Use)	58	(2)
Tag Questions (Form/Meaning)	60	(3)
Tag Question Intonation (Use)	63	(3)
Use Your English Activities	66	(4)
Modals of Probability and Possibility	70	(18)
Opening Task	70	(14)
Using Could, May, Might, and Must to Show How Certain You Are about a Present Situation (Meaning)	72	(2)
Modals of Probability and Possibility (Form)	74	(3)
Modals of Probability and Possibility in the Past (Form)	77	(2)
Modals of Probability and Possibility with the Progressive (Form)	79	(2)
Future Probability and Possibility with Modals (Meaning)	81	(3)
Use Your English Activities	84	(4)
Past Progressive and Simple Past with Time Clauses	88	(16)
Opening Task	88	(11)
Past Progressive and Simple Past (Use)	90	(1)
Past Progressive (Form)	91	(1)
When, While, and As Soon As (Meaning)	92	(2)
Time Clauses with When, While, As Soon As, Before, and After (Form)	94	(5)
Use Your English Activities	99	(5)
Similarities and Differences	104	(16)
Opening Task	104	(12)
Expressing Difference: Comparatives and Superlatives (Form/Meaning)	106	(1)
Similarity and Difference: AS...As and Not As...As (Meaning	107	(3)
Using As...As and Not As...As (Form)	110	(3)
Making Tactful Comparisons with As...As and Not As...As (Use)	113	(3)
Use Your English Activities	116	(4)
Measure Words and Quantifiers	120	(16)
Opening Task	120	(13)
Measure Words with Food (Meaning)	122	(3)
Measure Words with Count and Noncount Nouns (Form)	125	(4)
Common Quantifiers (Form/Meaning/Use)	129	(4)
Use Your English Activities	133	(3)
Degree Complements	136	(14)
Opening Task	136	(10)
Enough, Not Enough, Too (Meaning)	138	(2)
Enough, Not Enough, Too (Form)	140	(2)
Too Much and Too Many; Too Little and Too Few (Form/Meaning)	142	(1)
Too versus Key (Meaning)	143	(3)
Use Your English Activities	146	(4)
Giving Advice and Expressing Opinions	150	(16)
Opening Task	150	(12)
Giving Advice with Should, Ought To, Shouldn't (Form/Meaning)	152	(1)
Using Need To and Imperatives to Give Advice (Use)	153	(1)
Should and Ought To versus Must (Use)	154	(1)
Should and Ought to versus Had Better (Form/Meaning)	155	(2)
Should versus Could and Might (Use)	157	(3)
Should and Ought to versus Might, Could, Need To, Had Better, and Must (Use)	160	(1)
Expressing Opinions with Should, Ought To, and Should Not (Meaning)	161	(1)
Use Your English Activities	162	(4)
Modals of Necessity and Prohibition	166	(18)
Opening Task	166	(15)
Modals of Necessity, Prohibition, and Permission (Meaning)	168	(1)
Modals and Phrasal Modals: Must, Have To, and Have Got To (Form)	169	(3)
Have To versus Have Got To (Use)	172	(1)
Using Cannot (Can't) and Must Not (Mustn't) to Show Something Is Prohibited or Not Permitted (Meaning/Use)	173	(2)
Must and Have to versus Must Not, Cannot, and Do Not Have To (Meaning/Use)	175	(3)
Talking about the Present, Past, and Future with Have To and Must (Form)	178	(3)
Use Your English Activities	181	(3)
Expressing Likes and Dislikes	184	(12)
Opening Task	184	(9)
Expressing Similarity with Too and Either (Form/Meaning)	186	(1)
Expressing Similarity with So and Neither (Form/Meaning)	186	(1)
Expressing Similarity with So (Form)	187	(1)
Showing Agreement with Short Phrases (Use)	188	(2)
Short Phrases or Hedges (Use)	190	(2)
Likes and Dislikes with Gerunds and Infinitives (Form/Meaning)	192	(1)
Use Your English Activities	193	(3)
Present Perfect with Since and For	196	(16)
Opening Task	196	(11)
Present Perfect: Connecting Past and Present (Use)	198	(2)
Forming the Present Perfect (Form)	200	(2)
For and Since (Meaning)	202	(1)
For and Since (Form)	203	(1)
Verbs Not Used with Present Perfect and For (Meaning)	204	(3)
Use Your English Activities	207	(5)
Present Perfect and Simple Past	212	(14)
Opening Task	212	(9)
Present Perfect Simple Past (Use)	214	(3)
Ever and Never in Questions (Meaning)	217	(1)
Present Perfect in Question (Use)	218	(1)
Already and Yet (Meaning)	219	(2)
Use Your English Activities	221	(5)
Present Perfect Progressive	226	(12)
Opening Task	226	(9)
Present Perfect Progressive and Just: Recent Activities (Use)	228	(1)
Present Perfect Progressive (Form)	229	(1)
Perfect Progressive: Unfinished Actions (Use)	230	(1)
Present Perfect Progressive for New Habits (Use)	231	(1)
Present Perfect versus Present Perfect Progressive (Use)	232	(3)
Use Your English Activities	235	(3)
Making Offers with Would You Like	238	(10)
Opening Task	238	(7)
Offers with Would You Like (Form)	240	(1)
Would You Like...? or Do Your Want...? (Use)	240	(2)
Accepting and Refusing Offers (Use)	242	(3)
Use Your English Activities	245	(3)
Requests and Permission	248	(14)
Opening Task	248	(9)
Making Polite Requests (Use)	250	(1)
Politely Refusing Requests (Use)	251	(1)
Responding to Requests (Form/Meaning)	252	(3)
Asking for Permission (Use)	255	(1)
Responding to Requests for Permission (Form/meaning)	256	(1)
Use Your English Activities	257	(5)
Used To with Still and Anymore	262	(10)
Opening Task	262	(7)
Comparing Past and Present with Used to (Meaning)	264	(1)
Used To (Form)	265	(1)
Anymore (Use)	265	(1)
Still (Form/Meaning)	266	(2)
Adverbs of Frequency (Form)	268	(1)
Use Your English Activities	269	(3)
Past Perfect	272	(12)
Opening Task	272	(8)
Past Perfect and Simple Past (Meaning)	274	(1)
Past Perfect (Form)	274	(3)
Before, After, By the Time, by (Meaning)	277	(1)
Past Perfect versus Present Perfect (Use)	278	(2)
Use Your English Activities	280	(4)
Articles	284	(18)
Opening Task	284	(15)
Definite and Indefinite Articles: The, A/An, and Some (Form/Meaning)	286	(1)
Using Articles: Fist and Second Mention (Use)	287	(2)
Indefinite Articles with Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns (Form)	289	(1)
Some Instead of &Oslass; (No Article) (Meaning)	290	(1)
The with Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns (Form)	291	(1)
Making General Statements with &Oslass; (No Article) (Meaning)	292	(1)
The with Unique/Easily Identified Nouns (Meaning)	293	(2)
Using The: Second Mention, Related Mention, and Certain Adjectives (Meaning/Use)	295	(4)
Use Your English Activities	299	(3)
Articles with Names of Places	302	(10)
Opening Task	302	(7)
Articles with Names of Places (Form)	304	(3)
Articles with Names of Institutions (Form)	307	(2)
Use Your English Activities	309	(3)
The Passive	312	(16)
Opening Task	312	(12)
Passive and Active (Meaning)	314	(1)
Forming the Be Passive (Form)	315	(2)
The Passive (Use)	317	(1)
Including the Agent in Passive Sentences (Use)	318	(1)
Forming the Get-Passive (Form)	319	(3)
Be-Passive versus Get-Passive (Use)	322	(2)
Use Your English Activities	324	(4)
Phrasal Verbs	328	(20)
Opening Task	328	(16)
Phrasal Verbs (Form)	330	(1)
When to Use Phrasal Verbs and How to Learn Them (Meaning/Use)	331	(5)
Phrasal Verbs that Take Objects (Form/Meaning)	336
Separating Verbs and Particles (Form)	335	(1)
Inseparable Phrasal Verbs (Form/Meaning)	336	(3)
When and When Not to Separate Phrasal Verbs (Use)	339	(2)
Phrasal Verbs that Do Not Take Object (Form/Meaning)	341	(3)
Use Your English Activities	344	(4)
Adjective Clauses and Participles as Adjectives	348	(14)
Opening Task	348	(11)
Adjective Clauses: Using Who and That to Describe People (Form/Meaning)	350	(2)
Which and That (Form/Meaning)	352	(3)
Participles as Adjectives (Form/Meaning)	355	(4)
Use Your English Activities	359	(3)
Conditionals	362	(1)
Opening Task	362	(16)
Hypothetical Conditions (Form/Meaning)	364	(2)
Word Order in Conditional (Form)	366	(1)
Past Hypothetical Conditional (Form/Meaning)	367	(4)
Future Conditionals (Form/Meaning)	371	(2)
Future conditionals or Hypothetical Conditions? (Meaning)	373	(2)
Factual Conditionals (Form/Meaning)	375	(1)
Would, Might, May, and Will in Conditionals (Meaning)	376	(2)
Use Your English Activities	378
Appendices A-1	1	(13)
Appendix 1 Forming Verbs Tenses	1	(6)
A. Simple Present	1	(1)
B. Present Progressive	2	(1)
C. Simple Past	3	(1)
D. Past Progressive	3	(1)
E. Present Perfect	4	(1)
F. Present Perfect Progressive	4	(1)
G. Past Perfect	5	(1)
H. Future (Will)	5	(1)
I. Future (Going To)	6	(1)
Appendix 2 Forming the Passive	7	(1)
A. The Be Passive	7	(1)
B. The Get Passive	7	(1)
Appendix 3 Forming Conditionals	8	(1)
A. Factual Conditionals	8	(1)
B. Future Conditionals	8	(1)
C. Hypothetical Conditionals	8	(1)
D. Past Hypothetical Conditionals	8	(1)
Appendix 4 Overview of Modal Auxiliaries	9	(4)
A. Probability and Possibility	9	(2)
B. Giving Advice and Expressing Opinions	11	(1)
C. Necessity and Obligation	12	(1)
D. Prohibition and Permission	12	(1)
Appendix 5 Common Irregular Verbs	13	(1)
Answer Key (Puzzles and Problems Only)	14	(5)
Credits	19
Index	1