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English in action / Barbara H. Foley, Elizabeth R. Neblett.
LIBRA PE1128 .F559 2003 1:teachers guide 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foley, Barbara H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
- English language--Grammar.
- Genre:
- Problems and exercises.
- Textbooks.
- Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.
- Physical Description:
- volumes <1, 4> : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Thomson/Heinle, ©2003-<c2004>
- Summary:
- A four-level core language course series for ESL/EFL students.
- Contents:
- 1 Education 2
- Understanding the American school system
- Discussing study habits
- Talking about schedules
- Active Grammar
- Present continuous tense statements
- Present continuous tense questions
- Present tense statements
- Present tense questions
- Adverbs of frequency
- Nonaction verbs
- Listening/Pronunciation
- The roommates
- Pronunciation: Do you
- The big picture: The University of Texas at San Antonio
- New Jersey Institute of Technology (N.J.I.T.)
- Reading for details
- Writing Our Stories
- My schedule
- Such as
- 2 Colonial Times (1607-1776) 20
- Understanding a map
- Talking about life in colonial times
- Comparing life in colonial times and life today
- Talking about childhood
- Understanding proverbs
- Past tense statements
- Past tense questions
- Past tense: Be
- Used to
- Colonial Life
- Pronunciation: used to
- Interview: Eric
- The big picture: Benjamin Franklin
- Proverbs
- Plimouth Plantation
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
- Chronological order
- Growing up
- Brainstorming
- 3 Family Matters 36
- Discussing marriage and divorce statistics
- Talking about divorce
- Understanding the effects of divorce
- Discussing future plans
- Future tense: Be + going to
- Future tense: Will
- Present continuous tense with future meaning
- Promises and predictions: Will
- Future time clauses
- Pronunciation: Stress
- The big picture: The divorce agreement
- Dating
- Choosing a story title
- Vocabulary in context
- Voicing opinions
- More about me
- Adjectives that describe personality
- Like, love, enjoy, and go
- 4 Comparisons: Global and Local 52
- Labeling a world map
- Comparing countries
- Reading charts and graphs
- Comparing families
- Comparative and superlative forms
- Comparing nouns
- More/Fewer/Less + noun + than
- As many + noun + as
- As much + noun + as
- As ... as
- Pronunciation: as .. as vs. not as ... as
- Comparisons: Telecommunications
- The big picture: What happened to my town?
- Suburban sprawl
- Detailing a process
- Understanding a listing
- Three cities
- Like, alike
- 5 Leisure Activities 68
- Talking about hobbies and leisure activities
- Asking about a person's hobbies and interests
- Describing a process
- Question review
- Yes/No questions
- Who/Whom/Whose
- How and Wh- questions
- Tag questions
- Free time
- Pronunciation: Tag questions
- An interview: A Collector
- The big picture: My hobby
- Stamp collecting
- How to ...
- Using transition words
- 6 Driving 84
- Reading traffic signs
- Talking about personal plans and obligations
- Describing an accident
- Expressing opinions
- Giving a warning
- Identifying parts of a car
- Modals
- Have to and must
- Don't/Doesn't have to
- Must not and cannot
- Can/Can't
- Should/Shouldn't
- Had better/Had better not
- Rebecca's schedule
- Pronunciation: can/can't
- Interview: An accident
- Pronunciation: 'd better/'d better not
- The big picture: Getting a driver's license
- The written test
- Taking a multiple-choice test
- Giving directions
- Writing directions
- Avoiding unnecessary sentences
- 7 Sports 100
- Discussing popular sports
- Talking about well-known athletes
- Present perfect continuous
- For and since
- How long questions
- Pronunciation: Present continuous and present perfect continuous
- Interview: Robert
- Interview: Anna
- The big picture: The soccer game
- Lance Armstrong
- Understanding vocabulary
- Sentence sense
- A friendly letter
- Compound sentences
- 8 Changes 116
- Goals
- Discussing family reunions
- Describing changes
- Talking about recent family events
- Present perfect tense
- Present perfect versus simple past
- Already and yet
- A phone call
- Verb forms
- Pronunciation: Clarifying information
- Reunion plans
- The big picture: Gossip
- Pronunciation: Surprise intonation
- A family newsletter
- Skimming for the main idea
- Skimming for details
- Looking at vocabulary
- A news article
- Getting the facts
- 9 Job Performance 132
- Discussing jobs
- Describing employee performance
- Making career choices
- Understanding a performance evaluation
- How long/How many
- Repeated past actions
- Indefinite time expressions
- Simple past versus present perfect
- Pronunciation: Simple past versus present perfect
- A Metro Transit driver
- The big picture: Performance evaluations
- The changing workforce
- Understanding numbers
- Looking at careers
- Researching a job
- Describing a job
- 10 Regrets and Possibilities 148
- Expressing regret
- Talking about past possibilities
- Expressing probability or deduction
- Showing sympathy or empathy
- Should have
- May have, might have, could have
- Must have
- Adjectives with -ed and -ing
- Regrets
- The burglary
- Pronunciation: Past modals
- Pronunciation: Word stress
- The big picture: In the counselor's office
- Weekend and after-school language and culture programs
- Giving opinions about a reading
- My regrets
- Using quotation marks
- 11 Let's Get Organized! 164
- Discussing organization and time-management strategies
- Making a to-do list
- Organizing a study schedule
- Giving advice
- Verb + infinitive
- Verb + object + infinitive
- Be + adjective + infinitive
- Eric's to-do list
- Pronunciation: Syllable stress
- The big picture: The first test
- Active learning
- Discussing learning strategies
- Study time
- Preposition review
- 12 Becoming a Citizen 180
- Understanding the citizenship process
- Describing feelings before and after moving to the U.S.
- Discussing the reasons people become citizens
- Expressing opinions about current issues
- Verb + gerund
- Preposition + gerund
- Verb + preposition + gerund
- Be + adjective phrase + gerund
- Contrast of infinitives and gerunds
- Listening/Prounciation
- New citizens
- Gerunds
- Pronunciation: Linking
- Citizenship decisions
- The big picture: Running a campaign
- The citizenship test
- A political platform
- Giving an opinion and stating reasons
- Sentence fragments
- 13 Business and Industry 196
- Locating states
- Understanding a product map
- Researching a state
- Discussing well-known companies and their products
- Present tense-passive voice
- Wh- questions
- Passive wh- questions
- Pronunciation: Verb, noun, and adjective forms and syllable stress
- The big picture: T-shirts-From the field to your closet
- An alternative energy source
- Pro or con?
- Business and industry in my country
- Drawing a product map
- For example, such as, and induding
- 14 Technology Today 212
- Looking at some recent inventions
- Discussing advances in technology
- Learning about inventions and inventors
- Past tense-passive voice
- Recent inventions
- Pronunciation: Compound nouns
- School in Taiwan
- The big picture: Shopping
- Cell phone controversy
- Understanding a research study
- An opinion letter
- Stating an opinion
- Giving reasons
- 15 Country Music 228
- Discussing different types of music
- Expressing musical preferences
- Learning about popular country music singers
- Adjective clauses with who
- Adjective clauses with who, whom, which, and whose
- Adjective clauses with when and where
- The big picture: Fan Fair
- Shania Twain
- Skimming for information
- Scanning for information
- My autobiography
- Developing a time line
- Run-on sentences
- Audio Script 251
- Irregular Verbs 273
- Map of the United States 278.
- Notes:
- Rev. and expanded edition of: The new grammar in action. c1998.
- Includes indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0838428118
- 9780838428115
- 0838428304
- 9780838428306
- 0838452019
- 9780838452011
- 0838407226
- 9780838407226
- 0838405347
- 9780838405345
- 9780838428283
- 0838428282
- 9780838428290
- 0838428290
- OCLC:
- 49260400
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