FOCUS ON GRAMMAR 4 THIRD EDITION

UNIT 1 Simple Present and Present Progressive
   School newsletter about names:What's in a Name?
UNIT 2 Simple Past and Past Progressive
   Magazine article about four famous couples:Super Couples
UNIT 3 Present Perfect, Present Perfect Progressive, and Simple Past
   Personal webpage from a skydiver:Jumping for Joy
UNIT 4 Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive
   Magazine article about director Ang Lee:And the Winner Is…
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Editing for Verb Forms
   Writing an autobiographical paragraph
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 5 Future and Future Progressive
   Magazine article about the future:Presenting the Future!
UNIT 6 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive
   Transcript of TV personal finance show:Money Talks
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Avoiding sentence fragments    
   Writing a personal letter about future plans
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 7 Negative Yes/No Questions and Tag Questions
   Magazine interviews with people living in foreign countries:t's a Great Place to Live, Isn't It?
UNIT 8 So, Too, Neither, Not Either, and But
   Magazine article about identical twins:The Twin Question: Nature or Nurture?
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Avoiding repetition with sentence additions
   Writing a comparison and contrast essay
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 9 Gerunds and Infinitives: Review and Expansion
   Newspaper article about the largest international fast-food chain:McWorld    
UNIT 10 Make, Have, Let, Help, and Get 
   Magazine article about performing animals:That's Entertainment?    
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Using parallel forms: Gerunds and infinitives
   Writing a summary of a movie or TV show
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 11 Phrasal Verbs: Review
   Magazine article about the ancient Chinese art of feng shui:Wind and Water
UNIT 12 Phrasal Verbs: Separable and Inseparable
   Magazine article about telemarketers:Welcome Home!
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Using the appropriate degree of formality
   Writing an informal letter about current activities
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 13 Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns
   Magazine article about friendship:A Word with Many Meanings
UNIT 14 Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns or When and Where
   Book review of two autobiographies about the immigrant experience:Torn Between Two Worlds    
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Adding details with adjective clauses
   Writing an essay about a famous person
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 15 Modals and Similar Expressions: Review
   Magazine article about reality TV:Reality TV: Everybody Needs an Audience
UNIT 16 Advisability in the Past
   Magazine article about regrets:Useless Regrets
UNIT 17 Speculations and Conclusions about the Past
   Journal article on theories about ancient cultures:Close Encounters
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Organizing ideas from freewriting
   Writing an informal letter to resolve a problem
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 18 The Passive: Overview
   Magazine article about a famous magazine:Geography — The Best Subject on this Earth
UNIT 19 Passives with Modals and Similar Expressions
   Magazine article about the International Space Station:Close Quarters    
UNIT 20 The Passive Causative  
   Magazine article about body image:Body Art    
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Changing the focus with passive verbs
   Writing a report about a famous building
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 21 Present Real Conditionals
   Magazine article about cyber malls:Pick and Click: Shopping @ Home
UNIT 22 Future Real Conditionals
   Magazine article about superstitions:Knock Wood!    
UNIT 23 Present and Future Unreal Conditionals  
   Famous fairy tale:The Fisherman and his Wife    
UNIT 24 Past Unreal Conditionals  
   Website DVD review of a movie classic:It's a Wonderful Life    
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING    
   Showing cause and effect
   Writing a cause and effect essay
REVIEW TEST    
UNIT 25 Direct and Indirect Speech
   Magazine article about lying:The Truth about Lying
UNIT 26 Indirect Speech: Tense Changes
   Magazine article about 2002 European floods:The Flood of the Century  
UNIT 27 Indirect Instructions, Commands, Requests, and Invitations
   Transcript of a radio interview with the director of a speech clinic:The Snooze News  
UNIT 28 Indirect Questions 
   Excerpt from an article about job interviews:The Stress Interview  
UNIT 29 Embedded Questions 
   Interview with a specialist on tipping:The Tip  
FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING  
   Using direct and indirect speech
   Writing a letter of complaint
REVIEW TEST  
APPENDICES
1 Irregular Verbs
2 Common Non-action Verbs
3 Verbs and Expressions Commonly Used Reflexively
4 Some Common Transitive Separable Phrasal Verbs
5 Some Common Intransitive Phrasal Verbs
6 Some Common Irregular Plural Nouns
7 Some Common Non-count Nouns
8 Proper Nouns
9 Common Participial Adjectives
10 Irregular Comparisons of Adjectives, Adverbs, and Quantifiers
11 Some Adjectives that Form the Comparative and Superlative
in Two Ways
12 Common Verbs Followed by a Gerund
(Base Form of Verb + -ing)
13 Common Verbs Followed by an Infinitive
(To + Base Form of Verb)
14 Common Verbs Followed by a Gerund or an Infinitive
15 Verbs Followed by Object + Infinitive
16 Common Adjective + Preposition Expressions
17 Common Verb + Preposition Combinations 
18 Social Modals and Expressions
19 Logical Modals and Expressions
20 Spelling Rules for Base Form of Verb + -ing
(Progressive and Gerund) 
21 Spelling Rules for the Simple Present:
Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
22 Spelling Rules for Base Form of Verb + -ed
(Simple Past and Past Participle of Regular Verbs)
23 Spelling Rules for the Comparative (-er) and Superlative (-est)
Forms of Adjectives
24 Spelling Rules for Adverbs Ending in -ly
25 Spelling Rules for Regular Plural Nouns
26 Some Capitalization and Punctuation Rules
27 Contractions with Verb Forms
28 Pronunciation Table
29 Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Present:
Third-Person Singular (he, she, it)
30 Pronunciation Rules for the Simple Past and Past Participle of Regular Verbs 
GLOSSARY OF GRAMMAR TERMS
REVIEW TESTS ANSWER KEY
INDEX