FOCUS ON GRAMMAR 4 THIRD EDITION

UNIT 1 Simple Present and Present Progressive
School newsletter about names:What's in a Name?
UNIT 2 Simple Past and Past Progressive
Magazine article about four famous couples:Super Couples
UNIT 3 Present Perfect, Present Perfect Progressive, and Simple Past
Personal webpage from a skydiver:Jumping for Joy
UNIT 4 Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive
Magazine article about director Ang Lee:And the Winner Is…
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Editing for Verb Forms
Writing an autobiographical paragraph
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 5 Future and Future Progressive
Magazine article about the future:Presenting the Future!
UNIT 6 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive
Transcript of TV personal finance show:Money Talks
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Avoiding sentence fragments
Writing a personal letter about future plans
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 7 Negative Yes/No Questions and Tag Questions
Magazine interviews with people living in foreign countries:t's a Great Place to Live, Isn't It?
UNIT 8 So, Too, Neither, Not Either, and But
Magazine article about identical twins:The Twin Question: Nature or Nurture?
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Avoiding repetition with sentence additions
Writing a comparison and contrast essay
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 9 Gerunds and Infinitives: Review and Expansion
Newspaper article about the largest international fast-food chain:McWorld
UNIT 10 Make, Have, Let, Help, and Get
Magazine article about performing animals:That's Entertainment?
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Using parallel forms: Gerunds and infinitives
Writing a summary of a movie or TV show
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 11 Phrasal Verbs: Review
Magazine article about the ancient Chinese art of feng shui:Wind and Water
UNIT 12 Phrasal Verbs: Separable and Inseparable
Magazine article about telemarketers:Welcome Home!
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Using the appropriate degree of formality
Writing an informal letter about current activities
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 13 Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns
Magazine article about friendship:A Word with Many Meanings
UNIT 14 Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns or When and Where
Book review of two autobiographies about the immigrant experience:Torn Between Two Worlds
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Adding details with adjective clauses
Writing an essay about a famous person
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 15 Modals and Similar Expressions: Review
Magazine article about reality TV:Reality TV: Everybody Needs an Audience
UNIT 16 Advisability in the Past
Magazine article about regrets:Useless Regrets
UNIT 17 Speculations and Conclusions about the Past
Journal article on theories about ancient cultures:Close Encounters
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Organizing ideas from freewriting
Writing an informal letter to resolve a problem
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 18 The Passive: Overview
Magazine article about a famous magazine:Geography — The Best Subject on this Earth
UNIT 19 Passives with Modals and Similar Expressions
Magazine article about the International Space Station:Close Quarters
UNIT 20 The Passive Causative
Magazine article about body image:Body Art
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Changing the focus with passive verbs
Writing a report about a famous building
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 21 Present Real Conditionals
Magazine article about cyber malls:Pick and Click: Shopping @ Home
UNIT 22 Future Real Conditionals
Magazine article about superstitions:Knock Wood!
UNIT 23 Present and Future Unreal Conditionals
Famous fairy tale:The Fisherman and his Wife
UNIT 24 Past Unreal Conditionals
Website DVD review of a movie classic:It's a Wonderful Life
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Showing cause and effect
Writing a cause and effect essay
REVIEW TEST
UNIT 25 Direct and Indirect Speech
Magazine article about lying:The Truth about Lying
UNIT 26 Indirect Speech: Tense Changes
Magazine article about 2002 European floods:The Flood of the Century
UNIT 27 Indirect Instructions, Commands, Requests, and Invitations
Transcript of a radio interview with the director of a speech clinic:The Snooze News
UNIT 28 Indirect Questions
Excerpt from an article about job interviews:The Stress Interview
UNIT 29 Embedded Questions
Interview with a specialist on tipping:The Tip
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING
Using direct and indirect speech
Writing a letter of complaint
REVIEW TEST
APPENDICES
1 Irregular Verbs
2 Common Non-action Verbs
3 Verbs and Expressions Commonly Used Reflexively
4 Some Common Transitive Separable Phrasal Verbs
5 Some Common Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
6 Some Common Irregular Plural Nouns
7 Some Common Non-count Nouns
8 Proper Nouns
9 Common Participial Adjectives
10 Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives, Adverbs, and Quantifiers
11 Some Adjectives that Form the Comparative and Superlative
in Two Ways
12 Common Verbs Followed by a Gerund
(Base Form of Verb + -ing)
13 Common Verbs Followed by an Infinitive
(To + Base Form of Verb)
14 Common Verbs Followed by a Gerund or an Infinitive
15 Verbs Followed by Object + Infinitive
16 Common Adjective + Preposition Expressions
17 Common Verb + Preposition Combinations
18 Social Modals and Expressions
19 Logical Modals and Expressions
20 Spelling Rules for Base Form of Verb + -ing
(Progressive and Gerund)
21 Spelling Rules for the Simple Present:
Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
22 Spelling Rules for Base Form of Verb + -ed
(Simple Past and Past Participle of Regular Verbs)
23 Spelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) and Superlative (-est)
Forms of Adjectives
24 Spelling Rules for Adverbs Ending in -ly
25 Spelling Rules for Regular Plural Nouns
26 Some Capitalization and Punctuation Rules
27 Contractions with Verb Forms
28 Pronunciation Table
29 Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Present:
Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
30 Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past and Past Participle of Regular Verbs
GLOSSARY OF GRAMMAR TERMS
REVIEW TESTS ANSWER KEY
INDEX