Full Description
Next Generation Grammar seamlessly blends course work and online content to optimize instruction and provide a 21st century learning experience that will engage and motivate learners.
In class = Teacher directed
Thematic lessons, concise presentations and meaningful communicative activities integrate skills with grammar.
Online = Student directed
Dynamic practice activities and rich feedback support instruction...whenever, wherever. Also includes a Grammar Coach for quick, engaging review in a student-friendly video format. Ongoing assessment allows teachers to track progress and students to monitor their learning.
The four-level series includes:
Course book available in print or eText format.
ActiveTeach, a powerful electronic resource for exciting whole-class teaching — allows instructors to project course book pages, play video and audio, and create annotations. Also includes teaching notes.
Contents
Unit 1 BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
Chapter 1 Business in Economic Hard Times
Simple past and past progressive
Modals of advisability and suggestion
Chapter 2 Marketing Company Logos
Simple past and present perfect
Noun clauses with the subjunctive
Unit Assessments
Unit 2 PSYCHOLOGY AND PERSONALITY
Chapter 3 Winning and Losing
Adjectives and adverbs
Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns
Chapter 4 Traits of Successful People
Adjective clauses with object relative pronouns
Reducing adjective clauses to adjective phrases
Unit Assessments
Unit 3 SOCIETY, CONFLICT, AND JUSTICE
Chapter 5 Conflict Resolution
Noun clauses as subjects, objects, and complements
Gerunds and infinitives as objects
Chapter 6 Alternative Forms of Justice
Quantifiers
Connecting structures for comparison and contrast
Unit Assessments
Unit 4 THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Chapter 7 The Digital Gap
Equatives
Comparatives and comparative clauses
Degree complements
Chapter 8 Digital Footprints
Present and future unreal conditionals
Reported speech
Unit Assessments
Unit 5 PLANNING PUBLIC SPACES
Chapter 9 The Role of Public Spaces in Communities
Stative passives
Adjective clauses with where, when, and why
Adjective clauses with quantifiers
Chapter 10 The Role of Public Spaces on Campuses
Subject-verb agreement
Dynamic passives
Unit Assessments
Unit 6 PUBLIC HEALTH: PANDEMICS
Chapter 11 Current Virus Threats
Coordinating conjunctions
Adverbial time clauses and time phrases
Chapter 12 The Flu Pandemic of 1918
Past perfect and past perfect progressive
Past unreal conditionals
Unit Assessments
Unit 7 ERADICATING POVERTY
Chapter 13 Empowering Women
Connecting structures of cause / reason
Conjunctive adverbs of effect
Chapter 14 Fair Trade
Articles
Parallel structures
Unit Assessments
Unit 8 ANTHROPOLOGY -- BODY ART
Chapter 15 Body Art in the Workplace
Modals and phrasal expressions: Degrees of necessity
Causatives
Chapter 16 Cultural Identity through Body Art
Expressing purpose with infinitives: Using for and so that
Conjunctive adverbs of exemplification, emphasis, and clarification
Unit Assessments
Unit 9 COMMUNITY SERVICE
Chapter 17 Professionals Making a Difference
Gerunds as objects of prepositions
Reducing adverbial [hrases of cause / reason
Chapter 18 Youth Making a Difference
Gerunds and infinitives as subjects and subject complements
Interaction of verb tenses: Time frame shifts
Unit Assessments
Unit 10 THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 19 When Predators Disappear
Infinitives as noun and adjective complements
Pronoun agreement and reference
Chapter 20 Vanishing Islands
Future time
Modals of prediction and certainty
Unit Assessments
Appendices
A Irregular Verbs
B Verbs and adjectives followed by the subjunctive
C Verbs followed by gerunds and infinitives
D Common noncount nouns
E Tense and place / time shifts
F Common stative passive + preposition combinations
G Common instransitive verbs
H Common noun + preposition + gerund, and adjective + preposition + gerund combinations
i Abstract nouns
J Adjectives commonly followed by infinitives
