CEF level: B2-C1.

Includes index.

"Grammar and Beyond Essentials is a research-based and content-rich grammar series for beginning- to advanced-level students. The series focuses on the most commonly used English grammar structures and practices all four skills in a variety of authentic and communicative contexts. It is designed for use both in the classroom and as a self-study learning tool." (Introduction, p. viii)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

PART 1 Social Responsibility (Cause and Effect)

Unit 1 Cause and Effect 1: The Environment and You
Grammar: Sentence Structure; Common Patterns with Nouns That Show Cause
Topics: Sentence Structure: Simple and Compound Sentences; Complex Sentences; Common Patterns with Nouns That Show Cause
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding fragments; avoiding cuz and coz in written academic English; avoiding beginning sentences with and in written academic English.

Unit 2 Cause and Effect 2: Consumer Behaviour
Grammar: Subordinators and Prepositions That Show Cause; Transition Words and Common Patterns with Nouns That Show Effect
Topics: Subordinators and Prepositions That Show Cause, Reason, or Purpose; Transition Words and Phrases That Show Effect; Common Patterns with Nouns That Show Effect
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the correct prepositions in expressions with cause, result, and effect; remembering of in because of

Unit 3 Cause and Effect 33: Social Responsibility
Grammar: Real and Unreal Conditions; Common Phrases with If and Unless
Topics: Present and Future Real Conditionals; Present and Future Unreal Conditionals; Common Phrases with Unless and If
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the base form of the verb following a modal; remembering the correct form of the modal in real and unreal conditions

Unit 4 Cause and Effect 4: Alternative Energy Sources
Grammar: -ing Participle Phrases and Verbs That Show Cause and Effect
Topics: -ing Participle Phrases That Show Effect; -ing Participle Phrases That Show Cause; Verbs That Show Cause and Effect
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use result in and result from correctly; remembering subject-verb agreement with contribute to

PART 2 Human Behavior (Comparison and Contrast)

Unit 5 Comparison and Contrast 1: Family Size and Personality
Grammar: Identifying Relative Clauses; Comparatives with As...As; Common Patterns That Show Contrast Contrast
Topics: Identifying Relative Clauses -- Comparatives with As..As -- Common Patterns That Show Contrast
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding omitting the relative pronoun in subject relative clauses; avoiding in the same than

Unit 6: Comparison and Contrast 2: Men, Women and Equality
Grammar; Complex Noun Phrases, Parallel Structure, Common Quantifiers
Topics: Complex Noun Phrases -- Parallel Structure -- Common Quantifiers
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering parallel structure

Unit 7 Comparison and Contrast 3: Family Values in Different Cultures
Grammar: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs; Articles; Common Expressions That Show Similarity
Topics: Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs -- Articles -- Common Expressions That Show Similarity
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding using both more and -er in comparisons; avoiding using most before nouns; remembering the in the same as

Unit 8 Comparison and Contrast 4: Intercultural Communication
Grammar: Adverb Clauses of Contrast and Concession; Transition Words and Phrases That Show Contrast and Concession
Topics: Adverb Clauses of Contrast and Concession -- Transition Words and Phrases That Show Contrast and Concession
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding another in on the other hand; avoiding but in sentences with adverb clauses of concession

PART 3 Society and Culture: Narrative

Unit 9 Narrative 1: The American Dream
Grammar: Past Perfect, Past Modals, Common Time Clauses
Topics: Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive -- Past Modals and Modal-like Expressions -- Common Time Clauses
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use the past participle with the past perfect

Unit 10 Narrative 2: Immigration
Grammar: Demonstratives; Common Time Signals
Topics: Demonstratives -- Common Time Signals
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use this/that with singular nouns and these/those with plural nouns

PART 4 Business: Classification and Definition

Unit 11 Classification and Definition 1: Job Interviews
Grammar: The Passive; Common Words and Phrases Used to Classify
Topics: The Passive -- Common Words and Phrases Used in Classification Writing
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to put the adverb after the modal in passive sentences

Unit 12 Classification and Definition 2: Your Ideal Job
Grammar: The Language of Definition; Appositives
Topics: The Language of Definition -- Appositives
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use the correct form in definitions; remembering to use who only with animate nouns

PART 5 Nutrition and Health: Problem-Solution

Unit 13 Problem-Solution 1: Food and Technology
Grammar: Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive; Noun Phrase Structures
Topics: Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive -- Common Noun Phrase Structures
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the plural with noncount nouns; avoiding this in the fact that

Unit 14 Problem-Solution 2: Children and Health
Grammar: Reporting Verbs; Adverb Clauses and Phrases with As; Vocabulary for Describing Information in Graphics
Topics: Reporting Verbs -- Adverb Clauses and Phrases with As -- Common Vocabulary for Describing Information in Graphics
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use the base form of be after modals in the passive sentences

PART 5 Nutrition and Health: Problem-Solution

Unit 13 Problem-Solution 1: Food and Technology
Grammar: Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive; Noun Phrase Structures
Topics: Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive -- Common Noun Phrase Structures
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the plural with noncount nouns; avoiding this in the fact that

Unit 14 Problem-Solution 2: Children and Health
Grammar: Reporting Verbs; Adverb Clauses and Phrases with As; Vocabulary for Describing Information in Graphics
Topics: Reporting Verbs -- Adverb Clauses and Phrases with As -- Common Vocabulary for Describing Information in Graphics
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use the base form of be after modals in the passive

Unit 15 Problem-Solution 3: Health and Technology
Grammar: Adverb Clauses and Infinitives of Purpose; Reduced Adverb Clauses; Vocabulary to Describe Problems and Solutions
Topics: Adverb Clauses of Purpose and Infinitive of Purpose -- Reducing Adverb Clauses to Phrases -- Common Vocabulary to Describe Problems and Solutions
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the plural with for example; avoiding a comma before so that

Unit 16 Problem-Solution 4: Leading a Healthy Life
Grammar: It Constructions; Transition Word to Indicate Steps of a Solution
Topics: It Constructions -- Common Transition Words to Indicate Steps of a Solution
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to or for after Impossible; avoiding than to introduce next steps

PART 6 Social Issues and Technology: Summary-Response and Persuasion

Unit 17 Summary Response: Privacy in the Digital Age Grammar: Past Unreal Conditionals; Phrases Used in Summary-Response Writing
Topics: Past Unreal Conditionals -- Common Phrases Used in Summary-Response Writing
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering to use the past participle after modals in past unreal conditionals

Unit 18 Persuasion 1: Violence in the Media
Grammar: Nonidentifying Relative Clauses; Phrases That Limit Overgeneralization
Topics: Nonidentifying Relative Clauses -- Phrases That Limit Overgeneralization
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the relative pronoun in nonindentifying relative clauses; avoiding that in nonidentifying relative clauses

Unit 19 Persuasion 2: Living in an Age of Information Overload
Grammar: Noun Clauses with Wh-Word and If/Whether; Phrases for Argumentation
Topics: Noun Clauses with Wh-Words and If /Whether -- Phrases for Argumentation
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding whether to express a condition; remembering to spell whether correctly

Unit 20 Persuasion 3: Social Media
Grammar: Expressing Future Actions; Common Words and Phrases in Persuasive Writing
Topics: Expressing Future Actions -- Common Words and Phrases in Persuasive Writing
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering when to use the noun or verb forms of claim and argue; avoiding according for and according with