This is a grammar text and practice book. It's aim is to work towards more consistent and accurate usage in everyday situations, before moving on to more abstract language use. It offers spoken and written practice for pairs, groups, and individuals. Each chapter covers form, meaning and use, and each point is followed by specific practice showing when and where forms are used to convey particular meanings. Chapter summaries review the material taught in each chapter and a range of exercises are provided.
1. Expressing the Present: The Simple Present, the Present Continuous, and Stative Verbs
2. Adverbs of Frequency, There Is and There Are, and Imperatives
3. Expressing Past Time: The Simple Past, Used to, and the Past Continuous
4. Expressing Future Time: Be Going to, Will, the Present Continuous, and the Simple Present; Connecting Sentences
5. Complex Sentences: Past Time Clauses, Future Time Clauses, and Real If Sentences
6. Connecting the Past and the Present: The Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous
7. Social Modals: Requests, Permission, Suggestions, Advice, Opinions, Obligations, Necessity, Lack of Necessity, and
Prohibition
8. Modals of Ability and Belief; Past Modals
9. Relative Clauses
10. Count and Noncount Nouns
etc.