Focus on Grammar 2 - Softcover

Schoenberg, Irene E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131899716 ISBN 13: 9780131899711

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2005

Synopsis

With a fresh new design and a host of updated exercises and activities, the popular Focus on Grammar series is more practical and accessible than ever.  Known for its focus on English grammar through contextualized listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, this lively integrated skills course helps students bridge the gap between comprehending grammatical structures and actually using them.

 

Centered on thematic instruction, Focus on Grammar combines controlled and communicative practice in a consistent approach that’s a proven success among students at all levels.  Each unit progresses through four steps: Grammar in Context, Grammar Presentation, Focused Practice, and Communication Practice, using a unique format that makes the program easy for students to understand ― and for teachers to implement.

 

Each Student Book features:

• Clear presentations and charts that make grammar easy to learn.
• Creative activities that stimulate communication.
• New high-interest readings that are rich in content.
• From Grammar to Writing sections that build composition skills.
• Review Tests to confirm progress and improve scores on standardized tests.
• New Internet activities for individual, pair, or group work.

Other Focus on Grammar Course Components (Available Separately):

• Workbook offers a wealth of additional exercises.
• Audio CD provides opportunities for both task-based and extended listening.
• CD-ROM software features contextualized, interactive activities for listening, reading, and writing practice.

 

About this title

About the Author

Irene E. Schoenberg has taught ESL for more than two decades at Hunter College's International English Language Institute and at Columbia University's American Language Program. She has trained ESL and EFL teachers at Columbia University's Teachers College and at the New School University. She has given workshops and academic presentations at conferences, English language schools, and universities in Brazil, Chile, Dubai, El Salvador, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Taiwan, Thailand, and throughout the United States.

Ms. Schoenberg is the author of Talk about Trivia; Talk about Values; Speaking of Values 1; Conversation and Listening; Topics from A to Z Books 1 and 2; and the basic level of Focus on Grammar, Second Edition. She is the co-author with Jay Maurer of the True Stories series and the introductory level of Focus on Grammar, Third Edition.

Ms. Schoenberg holds a master's degree in TESOL from Columbia University.

From the Back Cover

With a fresh new design and a host of updated exercises and activities, the popular Focus on Grammar series is more practical and accessible than ever.  Known for its focus on English grammar through contextualized listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities, this lively integrated skills course helps students bridge the gap between comprehending grammatical structures and actually using them.

 

Centered on thematic instruction, Focus on Grammar combines controlled and communicative practice in a consistent approach that’s a proven success among students at all levels.  Each unit progresses through four steps: Grammar in Context, Grammar Presentation, Focused Practice, and Communication Practice, using a unique format that makes the program easy for students to understand – and for teachers to implement.

 

Each Student Book features:

• Clear presentations and charts that make grammar easy to learn.
• Creative activities that stimulate communication.
• New high-interest readings that are rich in content.
• From Grammar to Writing sections that build composition skills.
• Review Tests to confirm progress and improve scores on standardized tests.
• New Internet activities for individual, pair, or group work.

Other Focus on Grammar Course Components (Available Separately):

• Workbook offers a wealth of additional exercises.
• Audio CD provides opportunities for both task-based and extended listening.
• CD-ROM software features contextualized, interactive activities for listening, reading, and writing practice.
• Teacher’s Manual includes numerous teaching tips, audioscripts for all recorded exercises, and a CD-ROM with PowerPoint presentations and blackline masters.  Also includes Student Book Answer Key.
• New Assessment Package for each lever features placement, diagnostic, and achievement tests; general proficiency tests; audio CD with scripts; and test-generating software with thousands of items to create class-appropriate tests.
• Transparencies of all grammar charts in the Student Books help instructors point out important patterns and structures.
• Test-generating CD-ROM allows teachers to create and customize tests quickly and easily, and is available alone or in the Assessment Package.
• Companion Website provides students with grammar practice in new contexts through web-based exercises.

For online work,seeFocus on Grammar Interactive 2.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131899716
• ISBN 13: 9780131899711
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 451