Grammar Dimensions 1, Platinum Edition: Form, Meaning, and Use    

     

Description & Features

Through clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.

  • Contextualized grammar explanations focused on form, meaning, and use help students understand the target language.
  • Communicative activities expand the target structures and increase language communication.
  • The Use Your English "purple pages" offer communicative activities that integrate grammar with reading, writing, listening and speaking opportunities.
  • Workbooks provide additional exercises to improve grammar, editing activities to increase students' writing skills, and a test-taking section to enhance students' application skills.
  • Lesson Planners contain step-by-step teaching instructions with a choice of lesson plans to suit the needs of individual classrooms and teachers.
  • Assessment CD-ROM with ExamView Pro test generator lets teachers create tests and quizzes quickly and easily.

Get all the dimensions of grammar in one exhilarating course! This four-level program systematically addresses the three dimensions of grammar--form, meaning, and use--ensuring that students not only learn to form grammatical structures, but also are able to use them meaningfully and appropriately. Each of the 25 two-color, self-contained units presents communicative tasks, listening activities, clear direction lines, streamlined grammar explanations in chart form, and a consistent recycling of grammatical structures. Each student book also includes a free CD-ROM with over 500 interactive activities for additional practice (Windows/Macintosh format). The workbooks provide additional exercises on the grammar forms, plus help in preparing for the TOEFL exam!

Level 1 (Blue): The verb be, nouns, possessives, simple present, imperatives, present progressive, past, future, phrasal verbs, comparisons, superlatives, factual conditionals.


Level 2 (Red): Present progressive and simple present, future, modals, past progressive and simple past, giving advice, present perfect, present perfect progressive, requests, used to, past perfect, articles, passive, phrasal verbs, conditionals, adjective clauses.


Level 3 (Green): Review of all verb tenses, adverbial phrases, passive verb, infinitives, gerunds, intensifiers, comparatives, connectors, relative clauses, present perfect, hypothetical statements, subjunctive, demonstratives, modals in past time, reported speech.


Level 4 (Purple): Review of all verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, passive verbs, article usage, reference words, relative clauses, correlative conjunctions, modal perfect verbs, conditionals, perfective infinitives, subjunctive verbs, structures for emphasis/focus.