The all-new Focus on Grammar 5 Interactive CD-ROM, by Jay Maurer, mirrors the syllabus of the textbook Focus on Grammar 5, now available in a newly revised third edition.
Clear, contextualized, and interactive, this CD-ROM program provides a communicative review of English grammar that covers all language skills through a comprehensive, motivating, and fun practice of the grammar points and skills introduced in the Focus on Grammar Student Book. Focus on Grammar Interactive is in five levels, introductory through advanced.
Features
- Abundant contextualized exercises–including grammar, reading, listening, dictation, and speaking activities–provide students with extensive and meaningful lab practice.
- Target structures are presented in full reading and listening passages to help students discover the grammar.
- Dictation exercises provide students with controlled listening and writing practice.
- Speaking exercises give students the opportunity for further oral practice of the vocabulary, grammatical structures, and themes introduced in the unit.
- Review quizzes and and reports help students monitor their own progress and work.
- Additional exercises for remedial practice are provided for each grammar point so that students can work on improving weaker areas.
- A new From Grammar to Writing section provides students with additional writing practice based on unit topics, through a series of controlled practice leading to authentic pieces of writing that can be submitted for grading.
- Automated feedback, such as hints and explanations, provides learner support and motivates students.
- Engaging games provide fun opportunities to review key structures.
- Additional support is provided by a wide range of easy-to-access resources, including grammar charts, grammar notes, glossaries, and appendices.
System Requirements
- Windows 2000 with Service 4 or XP
- For Non-English Windows 2000 or XP systems, professional edition recommended
- Pentium II processor 400+ MHz
- 128+ MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
- 16-bit graphics card
- Monitor resolution of 800 x 600 or higher
- Sound card, microphone, and speakers (Microphones plugged into USB ports are not supported)
- 10X CD-ROM drive
- Disk space for saving student data (floppy, flash memory, hard drive)
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher (Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher recommended) (Note: Netscape and AOL browser software software not supported.)
- Macromedia’s Flash 8 and Shockwave 10, Apple’s QuickTime 7, and Sun’s Java 1.5.0_06 plug-ins (Note: If your computer does not have these plug-ins, they will be installed automatically when you install the course.)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7
Table of Contents:
PART I: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
UNIT 1 Present and Future Time
UNIT 2 Past Time UNIT 3 Simple and Progressive: Action and Non-action Verbs FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
The Sentence
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART II: MODALS AND OTHER AUXILIARIES UNIT 4 Be and Auxiliaries in Additions, Tags, and Short Answers
UNIT 5 Modals to Express Degrees of Necessity
UNIT 6 Modals to Express Degrees of Certainty FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Topic Sentences
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART III: NOUNS UNIT 7 Count and Non-Count Nouns
UNIT 8 Definite and Indefinite Articles UNIT 9 Quantifiers UNIT 10 Modification of Nouns FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Agreement
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART IV: ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
UNIT 11 Adjective Clauses: Review and Expansion
UNIT 12 Adjective Clauses with Prepositions; Adjective Phrases FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Punctuation of Adjective Clauses and Phrases
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART V: PASSIVE VOICE UNIT 13 The Passive: Review and Expansion
UNIT 14 The Passive to Describe Situations and to Report Opinions
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Parallelism
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART VI: GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES UNIT 15 Gerunds
UNIT 16 Infinitives FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING Parallelism of Gerunds and Infinitives
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART VII: ADVERBS UNIT 17 Adverbs: Functions, Types, Placement, and Meaning
UNIT 18 Adverb Clauses UNIT 19 Adverb and Adverbial Phrases
UNIT 20 Connectors FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Sentences and Fragments
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART VIII: NOUN CLAUSES UNIT 21 Noun Clauses: Subjects, Objects, and Complements
UNIT 22 Direct and Indirect Speech FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING: Writing Direct and Indirect Speech
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
PART IX: CONDITIONALS AND THE SUBJUNCTIVE UNIT 23 Conditionals; Other Ways to Express Unreality
UNIT 24 More Conditions; the Subjunctive FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Avoiding Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices
GRAMMAR OUT OF THE BOX (GAME)
REVIEW TEST
APPENDICES
- Irregular Verbs
- Common Non-Action Verbs
- Non-Action Verbs Sometimes Used in the Progressive
- Irregular Noun Plurals
- Common Non-Count Nouns
- Common Ways of Making Non-Count Nouns Countable
- Nouns Often Used with the Definite Article
- Countries Whose Names Contain the Definite Article
- Selected Geographical Features Whose Names Contain the Definite Article
- Verbs Used in the Passive Followed by a That Clause
- Common Stative Passive Verbs + Prepositions
- Common Verbs Followed by the Gerund
- Common Adjective + Preposition Combinations
- Common Verbs Followed by the Infinitive
- Verbs Followed by the Gerund or Infinitive Without a Significant Change in Meaning
- Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive With a Significant Change in Meaning
- Verbs Followed by Noun / Pronoun + Infinitive
- Common Adjectives Followed by the Infinitive
- Common Sentence Adverbs
- Words That Begin Dependent Clauses
- Transitions: Sentence Connectors
- Transitions: Blocks of Text
- Reporting Verbs
- Verbs and Expressions Followed by the Subjunctive (Base Form)
