Appropriate for low beginning level ESL courses, the first volume in the theme-based Grammar Links series offers a communicative approach with a traditional focus on form. The text offers clear, accurate, and comprehensive grammar reference material, useful to students throughout life; a strong emphasis on the pragmatics of formal versus informal language; and ample contexualized, four-skills practice.
- Grammar Briefings cover the structure of the English language as well as functions and meanings.
- Talking the Talk boxes address pragmatic concerns about grammatical choices in written and spoken English, such as levels of formality, slang, and metaphorical usage.
- Grammar Hotspot boxes alert students to predictable grammar problems and explain how to avoid them.
1. Present Tense of Be 2. Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives; Demonstratives, Possessives, and Conjunctions 3. Present Progressive Tense 4. Simple Present Tense 5. Prepositions; There + Be 6. Simple Past Tense 7. More About Nouns and Pronouns; Quantifiers 8. Expressing Future Time 9. Modals; Imperatives 10. Adjectives and Adverbs; Comparisons 11. Verbs and Objects; Past Progressive Tense; Time Clauses