Reppen, Randi

Grammar and Beyond Essentials 1 / Randi Reppen. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019. - xix, 367, A26, I8 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm - Grammar and Beyond Essentials .

CEF level: A1-A2. 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." SCOPE AND SEQUENCE PART 1 The Verb Be Unit 1 Tell Me About Yourself
Grammar: Statements with Present of Be
Topics: Present of Be: Affirmative Statements -- Present of Be: Negative Statements
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding be + no; avoiding sentences beginning with be Unit 2 Schedules and School Grammar: Yes/No Questions and Information Questions with Be Topics:Yes/No Questions and Short Answers with Be -- Information Questions with Be Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering capital letters and punctuation; avoiding contradictions with short answers to yes/no questions PART 2 Nouns, Determiners, and Pronouns Unit 3 Gadgets Grammar: Count Nouns; A/An; Have and Be Topics: Nouns; A/An -- Be with A/An + Noun -- Have Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering a/an; remembering subject/verb agreement Unit 4 The Workplace Grammar: Demonstratives and Possessives Topics: Demonstratives (This, That, These, Those) -- Possessives and Whose Avoid Common Mistakes: Using this/that and these/those; using possessives PART 3 Prepositions and Adjectives Unit 5 Skills and Qualities for Success Grammar:Descriptive Adjectives Topics: Adjectives -- Questions with What... like^ and How + Adjective Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering where to put adjectives; avoiding plural adjectives Unit 6 Around the House Grammar: Prepositions Topics: Prepositions of Place: Things at Home and in the Neighborhood -- Prepositions of Place: Locations and Other Uses -- Prepositions of Time Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering in, on and at Unit 7 Local Attractions Grammar: There Is and There Are Topics: There Is / There Are -- Yes/No Questions with There Is / There Are Avoid Common Mistakes:Using there is / there are; avoiding contractions in academic writing PART 4 Simple Present Unit 8 Lifestyles Grammar: Simple Present Topics: Simple Present: Affirmative and Negative Statements -- Statements with Adverbs of Frequency Avoid Common Mistakes:Avoiding do/does in negative statements with be; avoiding be with simple present verbs Unit 9 Daily Habits
Grammar: Simple Present -- Yes/No Questions and Short Answers
Topics: Simple Present Yes/No Questions and Short Answers
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering Do/Does in simple present questions with have, avoiding Do/Does in questions with be
Unit 10 Cultural Holidays
Grammar: Simple Present -- Information -- Questions
Topics: Simple Present -- Information Questions -- Questions with How Often
Avoid Common Mistakes: remembering Do/Does; avoiding -s with he/she/it
PART 5 Conjunctions
Unit 11 Time Management
Grammar: Simple Past Statements
Topics: Simple Past Statements: Regular Verbs -- Simple Past Statements: Irregular Verbs
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering simple past verbs to talk about the past; remembering the base form of the verb after did not/didn't
Unit 13 Business Ideas
Grammar: Simple Past Questions
Topics: Simple Past Yes/No Questions -- Simple Past Information Questions
Avoid Common Mistakes: remembering did + subject + base form of the verb; avoiding the past form in information questions
Unit 14 Life Stories
Grammar: Luck and Loss
Topics: Past Time Clauses with When, Before, and After
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the correct spelling of when, before, and after, remembering the subject in the main clause and the time clause
PART 7 More About Nouns, Determiners, and Pronouns
Unit 16 Eating Habits
Grammar: Count and Noncount Nouns
Topics: Count and Noncount Nouns -- Units of Measure, How Many...? and How Much ...?
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding a/an with noncount nouns, avoiding the plural with noncount nouns
Unit 17 Languages
Grammar: Quantifiers: Some, Any, A Lot Of, A Little, A Few, Much, Many
Topics: Quantifiers: Some and Any -- Quantifiers: A Lot Of, A Little, A Few, Much, Many
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering many with plural nouns, remembering any with negative statements and some with affirmative statements
Unit 18 Changes and Risks
Grammar: Articles: A/ An and The
Topics: Articles: A / An and The -- Articles or No Article?
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding A/An with noncount nouns; avoiding The when talking about things or people in general
Unit 19 Meals around the World
Grammar: Possessive Pronouns and Indefinite Pronouns
Topics: Possessive Pronouns -- Indefinite Pronouns
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the plural with possessive pronouns; remembering any + in negative statements
PART 8 Imperatives and Modals
Unit 20 Social Customs
Grammar: Imperatives Topics: Imperatives
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding no in negative imperatives, remembering an apostrophe in don't
Unit 21 Making Connections
Grammar: Ability and Possibility
Topics: Can and Could for Ability and Possibility -- Be Able To and Know How To for Ability
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding -s with can and could, remembering the base form with can and could
Unit 22 College Life
Grammar: Ability and Possibility
Topics: Can and Could and Would for Requests -- Can, Could, and May for Permission

Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the correct word order for making requests; remembering the base form of the verb after can, could, may, or would
Unit 23 Body Language
Grammar: Present Progressive
Topics: Present Progressive Statements -- Present Progressive Questions -- Present Progressive and Simple Present
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering Be and verb -ing for the present progressive
Unit 24 Inventions and Discoveries
Grammar: Subject and Object Pronouns, Questions About Subjects and Objects
Topics: Subject and Object Pronouns -- Questions About the Subject and the Object
Avoid Common Mistakes: Using subject and object pronouns; avoiding putting the pronoun before the noun
Unit 26 Do What You Enjoy Doing
Grammar: Infinitives and Gerunds
Topics: Infinitives -- Gerunds
Avoid Common Mistakes: Using infinitives and gerunds -- Avoiding Wanna in writing
PART 11 The Future
Unit 27 The Years Ahead
Grammar: Future with Be Going To, Present Progressive, and Will
Topics: Future with Be Going To or Present Progressive -- Future with Will
Avoid Common Mistakes: Remembering the verb Be in Be Going To; remembering Will for predictions Unit 28 Will We Need Teachers?
Grammar: Will, May and Might for Future Possibility, Will for Offers and Promises
Topics: May and Might; Adverbs with Will -- Offers and Promises
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding using Can for predictions, avoiding using Can for certainty
PART 12 More Details
Unit 29 Study Habits
Grammar: Suggestions and Advice
Topics: Suggestions and Advice -- Asking for and Responding to Suggestions and Advice
Avoid Common Mistakes: Using Should and Ought, avoiding putting probably after the Ought to
Unit 30 Getting What You Want
Grammar: Necessity and Conclusions
Topics: Necessity and Conclusions with Have To, Need To, Must¸
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding to after must, avoiding need to for conclusions
PART 13 Adjectives and Adverbs
Unit 31 Making a Good Comparison
Grammar: Adjectives and Adverbs
Topics: Adjectives and Adverbs of Manner -- Adjectives with Linking Verbs; Adjectives and Adverbs with Very and Too
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding -ly in irregular adverbs, avoiding confusion with good and well; avoiding putting the adverb between a verb and its objects
Unit 32 Progress
Grammar: Comparative Adjectives and Adverbs
Topics: Comparative Adjectives -- Comparative Adverbs
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding More with Better and Worse; avoiding That and Then after a comparative
Unit 33 Facts and Opinions
Grammar: Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs
Topics: Superlative Adjectives -- Superlative Adverbs
Avoid Common Mistakes: Avoiding the comparative for more than two things; avoiding using Most and -est together

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English language--Grammar.
English language--Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
A1-A2 (CEFR)

428.2