Basic English Grammar is a classic developmental skills text for beginning students of English as a second or foreign language. It uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methodologies to prmote the development of all language skills.
Volume A of the Student Book contains Chapters 1-8 plus the Appendices.
While keeping the same basic approach and materials as in earlier edtions, the fourth edition continues to build on the foundation of understanding form and meaning by engaging students in meaningful communication about real actions, real things, and their own lives in classroom context.
Several of the new features are:
- Information in the grammar charts highlighting differences between spoken and written English
- Step-by-step writing activities with models for students to follow
- Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught
- Newly created exercises to give students more incremental grammar practice
- Structure-based listening exercises that introduce students to relaxed, reduced speech
Table of Contents:
Volume A Contents
Chapter 1 USING BE
1-1 Singular pronouns + be
1-2 Plural pronouns + be
1-3 Singular nouns + b
1-4 Plural nouns + be
1-5 Contractions with be
1-6 Negative with be
1-7 Be + adjectiv
1-8 Be + a place
1-9 Summary: basic sentence patterns with be
Chapter 2 USING BE AND HAVE
2-1 Yes/no questions with be
2-2 Short answers to yes/no questions
2-3 Questions with be: using where
2-4 Using have and has
2-5 Using my, your, her, his, our, their
2-6 Using this and that
2-7 Using these and those
2-8 Asking questions with what and who + be
Chapter 3 USING THE SIMPLE PRESENT
3-1 Form and basic meaning of the simple present tense
3-2 Frequency adverbs
3-3 Position of frequency adverbs
3-4 Spelling and pronunciation of final -es
3-5 Adding final -s/-es to words that end in -y
3-6 Irregular singular verbs: has, does, goes
3-7 Like to, want to, need to
3-8 Simple present tense: negative
3-9 Simple present tense: yes/no questions
3-10 Simple present tense: asking information questions with where and what
3-11 Simple present tense: asking information questions with when and what time
Chapter 4 USING THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
4-1 Be + -ing: the present progressive
4-2 Spelling of -ing
4-3 Present progressive: negatives
4-4 Present progressive: questions
4-5 Simple present tense vs. the present progressive
4-6 Non-action verbs not used in the present progressive
4-7 See, look at, watch, hear, and listen to
4-8 Think about and think that
Chapter 5 TALKING ABOUT THE PRESENT
5-1 Using it to talk about time
5-2 Prepositions of time
5-3 Using it and what to talk about the weather
5-4 There + be
5-5 There + be: yes/no questions
5-6 There + be: asking questions with how many
5-7 Prepositions of place
5-8 More prepositions of place: a list
5-9 Would like
5-10 Would like vs. like
Chapter 6 NOUNS AND PRONOUNS
6-1 Nouns: subjects and objects
6-2 Nouns as objects of prepositions
6-3 Adjectives with nouns
6-4 Subject pronouns and object pronouns
6-5 Nouns: singular and plural forms
6-6 Nouns: irregular plural forms
6-7 Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs
6-8 Possessive nouns
6-9 Questions with whose
6-10 Possessive: irregular plural nouns
Chapter 7 COUNT AND NONCOUNT NOUNS
7-1 Nouns: count and noncount
7-2 Using a vs. an
7-3 Using a/an vs. some
7-4 Measurements with noncount nouns
7-5 Using many, much, a few, a little
7-6 Using the
7-7 Using Ø (no article) to make generalizations
7-8 Using some and any
Chapter 8 EXPRESSING PAST TIME, PART 1
8-1 Using be: past time
8-2 Simple past tense of be: negative
8-3 Past of be: questions
8-4 Simple past tense: using —ed
8-5 Past time words: yesterday, last, and ago
8-6 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 1)
8-7 Simple past tense: negative
8-8 Simple past tense: yes/no questions
8-9 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 2)
8-10 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 3)
8-11 Simple past tense: irregular verbs (Group 4)
Appendix 1 English Handwriting
Appendix 2 Numbers
Appendix 3 Ways of Saying Time
Appendix 4 Days/Months/Seasons
Appendix 5 Supplementary Charts
A5-1 Basic capitalization rules
A5-2 Voiceless and voiced sounds for -s endings on verbs
A5-3 Final -ed pronunciation for simple past verbs
Listening Script
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