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 Contents

Welcome to Focus on Grammar v

The Focus on Grammar Unit viii
Scope and Sequence xiv
About the Authors xxvi
Acknowledgments xxvii
Reviewers xxviii
Credits xxix

PART 1 Present and Past: Review and Expansion 2

UNIT 1 Simple Present and Present Progressive 4
UNIT 2 Simple Past and Past Progressive 18
UNIT 3 Simple Past, Present Perfect, and Present Perfect Progressive 33
UNIT 4 Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive 48

PART 2 Future: Review and Expansion 66

UNIT 5 Future and Future Progressive 68
UNIT 6 Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive 86

PART 3 Negative and Tag Questions, Additions and Responses 100

UNIT 7 Negative Yes / No Questions and Tag Questions 102
UNIT 8 Additions and Responses: So, Too, Neither, Not either, and But 118

PART 4 Gerunds, Infinitives, and Phrasal Verbs 134

UNIT 9 Gerunds and Infinitives: Review and Expansion 136
UNIT 10 Make, Have, Let, Help, and Get 152
UNIT 11 Phrasal Verbs: Review and Expansion 165

PART 5 Adjective Clauses 180

UNIT 12 Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns 182
UNIT 13 Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns 199

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 STEP 3 FOCUSED PRACTICE

Controlled practice activities lead

students to master form, meaning,
and use of the target grammar.
Discover the Grammar activities
develop students’ recognition
and understanding of the target
structures before they are asked to
produce them. EXERCISE 2 RELATIVE PRONOUNS AND VERBS
GRAMMAR NOTES 3–6 Complete the statements in the personality quiz. Circle the correct
words. (In Exercise 9, you will take the quiz.)

Personality Quiz
Do you agree with the following statements? Check (✔) True or False.
TRUE FALSE
STEP 3 FOCUSED PRACTICE 1. People who / which talk a lot tire me.

2. On a plane, I always talk to the stranger who take / takes the seat next to me.
EXERCISE 1 DISCOVER THE GRAMMAR
3. I’m the kind of person that / which needs time to recover after a social event.
GRAMMAR NOTES 1–4 Read the statements. Check (✓) Active or Passive.
Active Passive 4. My best friend, that / who talks a lot, is just like me.
1. The first National Geographic magazine was published in October 1888.
5. I prefer to have conversations which focus / focuses on feelings and ideas.
2. Today, millions of people read the magazine.
3. The magazine is translated from English into forty other languages. 6. I am someone whose favorite activities include / includes reading and doing yoga.
4. My cousin reads the Russian edition. 7. People whose / their personalities are completely different can be close friends.
5. Some of the articles are written by famous writers.
8. I’m someone that always see / sees the glass as half full, not half empty.
6. Young Explorer, another publication, is written for kids.
7. The publication is known for its wonderful photography. 9. Difficult situations are often the ones that provide / provides the best opportunities.
8. A National Geographic photographer took the first underwater color photos. 10. Introverts, that / who are quiet, sensitive, and creative, are perfect friends.
9. Photographers are sent all over the world.
10. The articles show a lot of respect for nature.
11. That picture was taken by Reza Deghati.
12. National Geographic is sold at newsstands.
EXERCISE 3 IDENTIFYING ADJECTIVE CLAUSES
A GRAMMAR NOTES 1–4, 6 We often use identifying adjective clauses to define words.
First, match the words on the left with the descriptions on the right.
EXERCISE 2 ACTIVE OR PASSIVE
h 1. difficulty a. This situation gives you a chance to experience something good.
GRAMMAR NOTES 1–4 The chart shows some of the forty language editions that National
Geographic publishes. Use the chart to complete the sentences. Some sentences will be 2. extrovert b. This attitude shows your ideas about your future.
active; some will be passive.
3. introvert c. This ability makes you able to produce new ideas.

Language
Number of 4. opportunity d. This person usually sees the bright side of situations.
Speakers*
5. opposites e. This person requires a lot of time alone.
Arabic 240
Chinese (all varieties) 1,200
6. optimist f. This money was unexpected.
English 340 7. outlook g. This person usually sees the dark side of situations.
Japanese 130 8. pessimist h. This problem is hard to solve.
Korean 77 9. creativity i. These people have completely different personalities.
Russian 110 10. windfall j. This person requires a lot of time with others.
Spanish 410
Turkish 71
190 Unit 12
* first-language speakers in millions

1. Spanish is spoken by 410 million people .

2. Around 110 million people speak Russian .
3. Arabic .
4. Chinese.
A variety of exercise types engage
274 Unit 17 students and guide them from recognition
and understanding to accurate production
of the grammar structures.

Editing exercises allow

students to identify and EXERCISE 5 EDITING

correct typical mistakes.

GRAMMAR NOTES 1–7 Read this post to a travelers’ website. There are ten mistakes in the
use of embedded questions. The first mistake is already corrected. Find and correct nine
more. Don’t forget to check punctuation.

WORLDWIDE TRAVEL
Email this page to someone! New Topic Post a Poll Post Reply

Subject: Tipping at the Hair Salon in Italy

Posted April 10 by Jenna Thompson

if or whether
I wonder you can help clarify some tipping situations for me. I never know what doing at the
ˆ
hair salon. I don’t know if I should tip the person who washes my hair? What about the person

who cuts it, and the person who colors it? And what happens if the person is the owner.

Do you know do I still need to tip him or her? That doesn’t seem logical. (And often I’m not

even sure who is the owner!) Then I never know how much to tip or where should I leave

the tip? Do I leave it on the counter or in the person’s hands? What if somebody’s hands are

x The Focus on Grammar Unit wet or have hair color on them? Can I just put the tip in his or her pocket? It all seems so

complicated! I can’t imagine how do customers figure all this out? What’s the custom? I really

need to find out what to do—and FAST! My hair is getting very long and dirty.
 STEP 4 COMMUNICATION PRACTICE

Listenings in a variety of genres

allow students to hear the grammar
in natural contexts.

STEP 4 COMMUNICATION PRACTICE

EXERCISE 6 LISTENING
20|03 A Claudia Leggett and her son, Pietro, are flying from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. Listen
to the announcements they hear in the airport and aboard the plane. Read the statements.
Then listen again and check (✓) True or False.
True False
Announcement 1: Claudia has two pieces of carry-on luggage, and Pietro has one.
They can take them all on the plane.
Announcement 2: Look at their boarding passes. They can board now.

Engaging communicative activities

(conversations, discussions, presentations,
surveys, and games) help students
synthesize the grammar, develop fluency,
and build their problem-solving skills.
Announcement 3: Look at their boarding passes again. They can board now.
Announcement 4: Pietro is only ten years old. Claudia should put his oxygen mask
on first.
Announcement 5: Claudia is sitting in a left-hand window seat. She can see the
lights of Tokyo.
Announcement 6: Passengers who are taking connecting flights can get this
information on the plane. EXERCISE 7 WHAT ABOUT YOU?
CONVERSATION Work in a group. Talk about your hobbies and interests. What did you
do in the past with your hobby? What have you been doing lately? Find out about other
20|03 B Work with a partner. Listen again to the people’s hobbies.
announcements. Discuss your answers.

EXAMPLE: A: OK. So, why is the answer to EXAMPLE: A: Do you have any hobbies, Ben?
number 1 False? B: Yes. Since I was in high
B: The announcement says if you school, my hobby has been
have more than one piece of running. . . . Recently, I’ve
carry-on luggage, you must check been training for a marathon.
the extra pieces at the gate. What about you? Do you have
A: Right. And they have three pieces, a hobby?
so they can’t take them all on the C: I collect sneakers. I got my
plane with them. Now, what did first pair of Nikes when I was
you choose for number 2? ten, and I’ve been collecting
Passengers on Flight 398 to Hong Kong
different kinds of sneakers
ever since. . . .

326 Unit 20

In the listening activities, students

practice a range of listening skills. A new
step has been added in which partners
EXERCISE 8 DONE, DONE, NOT DONE
complete an activity that relates to the NEW! A INTERVIEW What did you plan to do last month to develop your hobbies and personal
interests? Make a list. Include things you did and things that you still haven’t done. Do not
listening and uses the target grammar. check (✓) any of the items. Exchange lists with a partner.

Buy a new pair of running shoes.

Research healthy snacks for marathon runners.

B Now ask questions about your partner’s list. Check (✓) the things that your partner has
already done. Answer your partner’s questions about your list. When you finish, find out if
the information that you recorded on your partner’s list is correct.
EXAMPLE: A: Have you bought your new running shoes yet?
B: Yes, I have. I bought them last week.
A: And what about the research on healthy snacks?
B: I haven’t done it yet.
A: OK. I think we’ve talked about everything on our lists. Let’s make sure our
answers are correct.

44 Unit 3

The Focus on Grammar Unit xi

 FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

A From Grammar to Writing section, now

in every unit, helps students confidently NEW!
apply the unit’s grammar to their own writing.

FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING

The Before You Write task helps students
A BEFORE YOUR WRITE Diplomats are people who officially represent their country in a
foreign country. Imagine that you are going to attend a school for future diplomats.
Complete the information about some of the features of your ideal school.
generate ideas for their writing assignment.
Courses required:
Language(s) spoken:
Living quarters provided:
Food offered:
Trips taken:
Electronic devices provided: In the Write task, students are given a
B WRITE Use your information to write one or two paragraphs about your ideal school
for diplomacy. Use the passive with modals and similar expressions. Try to avoid some of
writing assignment and guided to use the
the common mistakes in the chart.
target grammar and avoid common mistakes.
EXAMPLE: I think the ideal school for diplomacy should teach a lot about cross-cultural
understanding. Courses should be required in . . . More than one official language
should be spoken. Classes could be offered in . . .

Common Mistakes in Using the Passive with Modals and Similar Expressions

Use be + past participle after the modal. Do Language classes should be required.
not leave out be. NOT Language classes should required.

Use the past participle after be. Do not use the A lot could be learned.
base form of the verb after be. NOT A lot could be learn.
Check Your Work includes an Editing
C CHECK YOUR WORK Read your paragraph(s). Underline the passive with modals and
similar expressions. Use the Editing Checklist to check your work.
Checklist that allows students to proofread
Editing Checklist and edit their compositions.
Did you use . . . ?
be + past participle to form the passive after modals or similar expressions
will or be going to for certainty in the future
can for present ability
could for past ability or future possibility
may, might, and can’t for future possibility or impossibility
should, ought to, and had better for advice
must and have (got) to for necessity

D REVISE YOUR WORK Read your paragraph(s) again. Can you improve your writing?
In Revise Your Work, students are given a
Make changes if necessary. Give your writing a title.
final opportunity to improve their writing.
Go to MyEnglishLab for more writing practice. The Passive with Modals and Similar Expressions 299

UNIT REVIEW
UNIT 21 REVIEW
Test yourself on the grammar of the unit.

Unit Reviews give students A Match each condition with its result.

the opportunity to check their Condition Result

1. If it rains, a. you might have good luck.
understanding of the target structures. 2. Unless you study, b. I could pay you back tomorrow.
Students can check their answers 3. If you cross your fingers, c. I may not buy it.
4. Unless they lower the price, d. I’ll take an umbrella.
against the Answer Key at the end of 5. If you lend me $10, e. you could rent one.

the book. They can also complete the 6. If you don’t own a car, f. you won’t pass.

Review on MyEnglishLab. B Complete the future real conditional sentences in these conversations with the correct
form of the verbs in parentheses.

1. A: Are you going to take the bus?

B: No. If I the bus, I late.
a. (take) b. (be)
2. A: What you if you the job?
a. (do) b. (not get)
B: I in school unless I the job.
c. (stay) d. (get)
3. A: If I the test, I .
a. (pass) b. (celebrate)
B: Good luck, but I’m sure you’ll pass. You’ve studied really hard for it.
A: Thanks!

xii The Focus on Grammar Unit C Find and correct six mistakes. Remember to check punctuation.

It’s been a hard week, and I’m looking forward to the weekend. If the weather will be

nice tomorrow Marco and I are going to go to the beach. The ocean is usually too cold
 MyEnglishLab delivers rich
online content to engage and
motivate students.

MyEnglishLab provides students with:

• rich interactive practice in grammar,
reading, listening, speaking, and writing
Grammar Coach videos give • immediate and meaningful
additional grammar presentations. feedback on wrong answers NEW!
NEW! • remediation activities
• grade reports that display performance
and time on task

MyEnglishLab delivers innovative teaching

tools and useful resources to teachers.
With MyEnglishLab, teachers can:
• view student scores by unit and activity
• monitor student progress on any activity
or test
• analyze class data to determine steps for
remediation and support

MyEnglishLab also provides teachers with:

• a digital copy of the student book for
whole-class instruction
• downloadable assessments, including the
placement test, that can be administered on
MyEnglishLab or in print format
• printable resources including teaching notes,
suggestions for teaching grammar, GSE
mapping documents, answer keys, and
audio scripts

The Focus on Grammar Unit xiii

 Scope and Sequence
UNIT GRAMMAR READING

PART 1
Present and
1
Simple Present and
Present Progressive
■ Can use the simple present
to describe habitual actions or
unchanging facts
■ Can use the present progressive to
Social Science Article:
What’s in a Name?
■ Can scan a text in order to
find specific information
Past: Review Page 4 describe actions happening now
THEME Names
and Expansion ■ Can use non-action verbs to describe
states or situations

2 ■ Can use the simple past to show that

an action happened and was completed
Biographical Article:
Super Couples
Simple Past and Past in the past ■ Can follow chronological
Progressive ■ Can use the past progressive to show sequences in a
Page 18 that an action was in progress at a biographical text
THEME First Meetings specific time in the past
■ Can use the past progressive with
the simple past to show an action
interrupted by another action
■ Can use the past progressive with
while or when to show that two actions
were in progress at the same time in
the past

3 ■ Can recognize when to use the

simple past, the present perfect, or the
Narrative: Adventures in
Student Living
Simple Past, Present present perfect progressive ■ Can scan a personal
Perfect, and Present ■ Can use the present perfect narrative to identify
Perfect Progressive (progressive) with for/since and time key details
Page 33 expressions to show that something
THEME Hobbies and was not completed in the past
Interests ■ Can use the present perfect
with adverbs of time to show that
something happened at an indefinite
time in the past

4 ■ Can use the past perfect to show that

something happened before a specific
Biographical Article:
The People’s Conductor
Past Perfect and Past time in the past ■ Can determine and
Perfect Progressive ■ Can use the past perfect progressive sequence the order of events
Page 48 to show that something was in progress in an article about someone’s
THEME Musicians before a specific time in the past life or career
■ Can use the past perfect (progressive)
with the simple past to show the time
order between two past events
■ Can use adverbs such as already, yet,
and never to emphasize the first event,
and expressions with by to refer to the
second event

xiv Scope and Sequence

LISTENING
A conversation about
people
■ Can identify people,
based on descriptions in a
conversation
A personal narrative
■ Can identify the order
of events in a recorded
description
A conversation about
hobbies
■ Can recognize key ideas
and details in a discussion
about hobbies and
personal interests
An interview on a
radio show
■ Can understand the
order of events in a radio
program about career and
life choices
SPEAKING WRITING VOCABULARY
■ Can ask people for personal ■ Can write a detailed adjustment AWL
details and introduce them paragraph about oneself consist of AWL
to others convince AWL
■ Can narrate a video, describing identity AWL
what people are doing in style AWL
provide
■ Can discuss naming customs
in different countries
■ Can describe one’s first ■ Can write two accomplish
meeting with someone paragraphs describing cover (v)
■ Can ask and answer questions past events in an influential
about important life events important relationship pursue AWL
recover AWL
■ Can create a story and present
research (n) AWL
it to the class
■ Can talk about hobbies and ■ Can write a detailed alternative (n) AWL
personal interests paragraph about a experiment (v)
■ Can discuss routine recent trend motivation AWL
accomplishments passion
survive AWL
■ Can research an interesting
trend (n) AWL
hobby and present findings to
the class
■ Can ask and answer questions ■ Can write two conduct (v) AWL
about past events and personal paragraphs about a contract (n) AWL
achievements famous person’s career ethnic AWL
■ Can discuss one’s schedule for and personal life inspire
the previous day participate AWL
transform AWL
■ Can research a famous child
prodigy and present findings to
the class
■ Can compare two similar
scenes and discuss differences
AWL = Academic Word List item
Scope and Sequence xv
 UNIT GRAMMAR READING

PART 2
Future: Review
5
Future and Future
Progressive
■ Can use will or be going to to discuss
future facts and predictions
■ Can use will when making quick
decisions, offers, and promises, and
Information Article: Cities of
the Future
■ Can understand important
points and details in a
and Expansion Page 68 be going to or the present progressive lengthy article about a
THEME Life in the Future when making plans scientific topic
■ Can use the simple present to discuss
future scheduled events
■ Can use the future progressive
to describe an action that will be in
progress at a specific time in the future
■ Can use the simple present or
the present progressive in future
time clauses

6 ■ Can use the future perfect to show

that something will happen before a
Business Article: Young
Entrepreneur Looks Toward
Future Perfect and specific time in the future the Future
Future Perfect ■ Can use the future perfect ■ Can scan a text about a
Progressive progressive to show that something business topic in order to
Page 86 will be in progress until a specific time find specific information
THEME Goals in the future
■ Can use the future perfect
(progressive) with the simple present
to show the time order between two
future events
■ Can use adverbs such as already and
yet to emphasize the first event, and
expressions with by to refer to the
second event

PART 3
Negative and
7
Negative Yes / No
Questions and Tag
■ Can use a range of negative yes/no
questions and tag questions to check
information or comment on a situation
■ Can answer negative yes/no
Interview Transcripts: It’s a
Great Place to Live, Isn’t It?
■ Can scan interview
transcripts for key
Questions
Tag Questions, questions and tag questions information
Page 102
Additions and PRONUNCIATION Intonation of tag
THEME Places to Live questions
Responses
8 ■ Can use additions with so, too,
neither, or not either to express similarity
Scientific Article: The Twin
Question: Nature or Nurture?
Additions and ■ Can use additions with but to express ■ Can extract specific
Responses: So, Too, difference information from a long,
Neither, Not either, linguistically complex text on
■ Can use short responses with so,
and But a scientific topic
too, neither, or not either to express
Page 118 agreement
THEME Similarities and
■ Can use short responses with but to
Differences express disagreement

xvi Scope and Sequence

LISTENING SPEAKING WRITING VOCABULARY

A discussion about a ■ Can discuss schedules, ■ Can write two challenge (n) AWL
conference reaching agreement on plans paragraphs about a individual (n) AWL
■ Can follow a group ■ Can offer a detailed opinion hypothetical scenario innovative AWL
discussion, identifying about a controversial topic that is set in the future technology AWL
important details such as relating to technology vehicle AWL
the speakers’ schedules vertical (adj)
and plans

A conversation about ■ Can talk about ■ Can write a detailed affordable

entrepreneurship someone’s future goals and paragraph about a convert (v) AWL
■ Can follow a fast- accomplishments classmate’s future goals corporate (adj) AWL

paced conversation about ■ Can discuss personal and what that person initiative AWL
professional aspirations, long-term goals and how to is doing to achieve meanwhile
identifying key details achieve them these goals status AWL

On-the-street ■ Can interview a classmate, ■ Can write an attracted (adj)

conversations asking questions and checking interview transcript constant (adj) AWL
■ Can identify important information about a classmate’s extremely
details from fast-paced ■ Can discuss details about home city, commenting originally
conversations cities around the world, on and checking structure (n) AWL
asking questions and checking information supply (v)
information

A first-date conversation ■ Can discuss similarities and ■ Can write two complex (adj) AWL
■ Can identify key differences between two people paragraphs about factor (n) AWL
details about people in a ■ Can conduct online research the similarities and identical AWL
conversation about twins separated at birth differences between image AWL
and report findings two people investigate AWL
reserved (adj)
■ Can discuss the controversial
topic of nature vs. nurture and
give own opinion

AWL = Academic Word List item

Scope and Sequence xvii

 UNIT GRAMMAR READING

PART
Gerunds,
4 9
Gerunds and Infinitives:
Review and Expansion
■ Can use a gerund as the subject or
the object of a verb
■ Can use a range of verbs followed by
a gerund or an infinitive
Social Science Article:
Fast Food in a Fast World
■ Can recognize significant
points and ideas in an article
Infinitives, and Page 136 ■ Can use a gerund after a preposition about a popular trend
THEME Fast Food
Phrasal Verbs or a phrasal verb, and an infinitive after
certain adjectives or nouns
■ Can use infinitives to express
purpose
■ Can use gerunds and infinitives to
make general statements

10 ■ Can use make, have, get, or let to show

how someone causes or allows another
Opinion Article:
That’s Entertainment?
Make, Have, Let, Help, person/animal to do something ■ Can recognize significant
and Get ■ Can use help to show that someone points and arguments in
Page 152 makes things easier for another an opinion article on a
THEME Zoos and Marine person/animal controversial topic
Theme Parks

11 ■ Can use a range of phrasal verbs

■ Can use transitive phrasal verbs with
Magazine Article:
Welcome Home!
Phrasal Verbs: Review or without separated objects ■ Can identify specific
and Expansion information in a linguistically
■ Can use intransitive phrasal verbs
Page 165 complex article
■ Can use phrasal verbs with
THEME Telemarketing
preposition combinations

PART 5
Adjective
12
Adjective Clauses
with Subject Relative
■ Can use sentences with adjective
clauses beginning with subject relative
pronouns such as who, that, which, or
whose to identify or give additional
Psychology Article:
Extroverts and Introverts
■ Can identify specific
information in a linguistically
Pronouns information about nouns
Clauses complex article
Page 182 ■ Can use identifying and
THEME Personality Types nonidentifying adjective clauses
and Friends PRONUNCIATION Identifying and
nonidentifying adjective clauses

13 ■ Can use adjective clauses beginning

with object relative pronouns such
Online Book Review:
Stories of a New Generation
Adjective Clauses with as who(m), that, which, or whose to of Immigrants
Object Relative Pronouns identify or give additional information ■ Can identify specific
Page 199 about nouns information in a book review
THEME The Immigrant ■ Can use adjective clauses beginning
Experience with where or when
■ Can use identifying and
nonidentifying adjective clauses
■ Can use adjective clauses as objects
of verbs and prepositions

xviii Scope and Sequence

LISTENING
A conversation about
school food services
■ Can identify key details
in a conversation
A conversation between a
student and a teacher
■ Can recognize how one
speaker influences the
other and gets that person
do something
A phone conversation
with a telemarketer
■ Can identify key details
in a conversation
A conversation between
friends at a high-school
reunion
■ Can identify the people
described in a conversation
A description of a
childhood room
■ Can follow a personal
narrative well enough to
identify specific details
SPEAKING WRITING VOCABULARY
■ Can complete a questionnaire ■ Can write two appealing (adj)
and discuss results paragraphs describing consequence AWL
■ Can make cross-cultural plusses and minuses of convenience
comparisons about a a certain type of food globe AWL
familiar topic objection
reliability AWL
■ Can conduct online research
on fast food and report findings
■ Can describe how someone ■ Can write three cruel
has influenced one’s life paragraphs about a former
■ Can contribute to a controversial topic, humane
group discussion about a giving arguments for physical AWL
controversial topic and against and stating rebel (v)
one’s personal opinion reinforcement AWL
■ Can justify and sustain views ■ Can write two authorities AWL
clearly by providing relevant paragraphs describing a eliminate AWL
explanations and arguments personal experience and equivalent AWL
■ Can analyze and discuss what one learned from feature (n) AWL
advertisements the experience firmly
tactic
■ Can take a personality quiz ■ Can write two contradict AWL
and discuss the results paragraphs describing require AWL
■ Can give an opinion and the ideal friend and sensitive
examples in response to a one’s best friend tendency
literary quote or an international trait
proverb unique AWL
■ Can complete a questionnaire
and discuss the answers
■ Can conduct online research ■ Can write a compelling (adj)
about a successful immigrant description of a place encounter (v) AWL
and report findings from one’s childhood generation AWL
■ Can give an opinion and and why the place was issue (n) AWL
examples in response to a important poverty
literary quote struggle (v)
AWL = Academic Word List item
Scope and Sequence xix
 UNIT GRAMMAR READING

PART 6
Modals:
14
Modals and Similar
Expressions: Review
■ Can use a range of modals and
similar expressions to express
ability, possibility, advice, necessity,
prohibition, or conclusions
Social Science Article:
Staying Connected
■ Can extract information,
ideas, and opinions from a
Review and Page 220 ■ Can use may, might, or could to linguistically complex article
THEME Social Networking express future possibility
Expansion

15 ■ Can use a range of past modals

to express past advisability, regret,
Advisability in the Past or criticism
Page 238 PRONUNCIATION Should have, Could have,
THEME Regrets Might have, and Ought to have
Psychology Article:
Useless Regrets
■ Can infer people’s opinions
based on the information
in a linguistically complex
article

16 ■ Can use a range of past modals to

speculate about past events and draw
Archaeology Article:
The Iceman
Speculations About the possible or probable conclusions based ■ Can speculate and draw
Past on facts conclusions based on the
Page 252 PRONUNCIATION Could(n’t) have, May have, information in a factual
THEME Unsolved Mysteries and Might have article

PART 7
The Passive
17
The Passive: Overview
Page 270
■ Can differentiate between active and
passive sentences
■ Can use the passive with the simple
present, the simple past, or the present
Magazine Article: Geography:
The Best Subject on Earth
■ Can identify specific
information in a linguistically
THEME Geography perfect of transitive verbs complex article
■ Can determine when to mention the
agent or not
■ Can use the passive with by + agent
when it is important to mention
the agent

18 ■ Can use the passive with a range

of modals and similar expressions to
Social Science Article:
Close Quarters
The Passive with Modals express certainty in the future, ability ■ Can identify specific
and Similar Expressions or possibility, future possibility or information in a linguistically
Page 287 impossibility, advice or necessity complex article
THEME International
Cooperation

PART 7 CONTINUES ▼

xx Scope and Sequence

LISTENING SPEAKING WRITING VOCABULARY

A conversation about ■ Can discuss social networking ■ Can write a blog content (n)
Facebook websites, giving opinions entry about plans and involved (adj) AWL
■ Can identify key details ■ Can take a quiz and compare events in the near future limit (v)
in a conversation answers with classmates network (v) AWL
resource AWL
■ Can discuss the advantages
respond AWL
and disadvantages of social
networking
A personal narrative ■ Can take a survey and discuss ■ Can write three examine
about regrets the results paragraphs describing exhausted (adj)
■ Can follow a personal ■ Can discuss a situation, a past problem and paralyzed (adj)
narrative well enough to examining people’s actions and evaluating what should perceive AWL
identify specific details giving opinions as to what the or shouldn’t have strategy AWL
people should have done been done unrealistic

Conversations between ■ Can discuss ancient objects, ■ Can write a detailed assume AWL
archaeology students speculating on what they are paragraph speculating decade AWL
■ Can identify key details and what they might have been about an unsolved indicate AWL
in conversations and match used for mystery preserve (v)
each conversation with ■ Can discuss and speculate speculation
a picture on new facts found about victim
the Iceman

An academic lecture ■ Can discuss and interpret an ■ Can write an essay edition AWL
about Haiti international proverb about a country one explorer
■ Can follow an academic ■ Can engage in an extended knows well inhabitant
lecture well enough to conversation about geographical mission
identify key details and locations and resources publication AWL

complete notes found there respect (n)

■ Can take a quiz and compare
answers with classmates

Conversations from ■ Can discuss rules for group ■ Can write one or two assemble AWL
a science-fiction living in close quarters paragraphs describing benefit (v) AWL
movie dialog ■ Can make recommendations the ideal school for concern (n)
■ Can follow conversations for improvement of one’s diplomacy cooperate AWL
well enough to identify environment perspective AWL
key details undertaking AWL
■ Can discuss the pros and
cons of investing money in
space projects
AWL = Academic Word List item

Scope and Sequence xxi

 UNIT GRAMMAR READING
▼ PART 7 CONTINUED

19 ■ Can use the passive causative to

describe services people arrange for
The Passive Causative someone to do for them
Page 301 ■ Can use the passive causative with
THEME Personal Services by + agent when the agent is new or
important information
Fashion Magazine Article:
Body Art
■ Can identify specific
information in an article on a
familiar topic

PART 8
Conditional
20
Present Real Conditional
Sentences
■ Can use present real conditional
sentences with if/when to describe real
conditions and results that are certain,
such as general truths and habits
Information Article: Pick and
Click: Shopping@Home
■ Can identify specific
information in an article on a
Sentences Page 316 ■ Can use modals or similar familiar topic
THEME Shopping expressions in the result clause to
express possibility, advice, or necessity
■ Can use an imperative in the
result clause to express instructions,
commands, or invitations

21 ■ Can use future real conditional

sentences with if/unless to describe real
Magazine Article:
Knock on Wood!
Future Real Conditional conditions and results that are certain ■ Can identify specific
Sentences ■ Can use modals or similar information in an article on a
Page 331 expressions in the result clause to familiar topic
THEME Cause and Effect express possibility, advice, or necessity

22 ■ Can use present and future unreal

conditional sentences to describe
Fairy Tale: The Fisherman
and His Wife
Present and Future unreal conditions and results that are ■ Can identify specific
Unreal Conditional untrue, imagined, or impossible information in a story
Sentences ■ Can use might or could in the result
Page 344 clause to express possibility
THEME Wishes ■ Can give advice using If I were you
■ Can use wish to express wishes
related to the present or future

23 ■ Can use past unreal conditional

sentences to describe past unreal
Information Article:
What if . . . ?
Past Unreal Conditional conditions and results that are untrue, ■ Can extract specific
Sentences imagined, or impossible information from a
Page 359 ■ Can use might have or could have in linguistically complex article
THEME Alternate Histories the result clause to express possibility
■ Can use wish + past perfect to
express regret or sadness

xxii Scope and Sequence

LISTENING
A conversation between
father and daughter
■ Can identify key details
in a conversation about
tasks on a To Do list
Announcements in an
airport and aboard a plane
■ Can infer correct
information from public
announcements
An interview with a
candidate for student
council president
■ Can follow an animated
conversation well enough
to identify details
A modern fairy tale
■ Can follow a recorded
story well enough to
identify key details
Conversations about past
events
■ Can follow animated
conversations well enough
to identify key information
about past events
SPEAKING WRITING VOCABULARY
■ Can talk about plans and ■ Can write one or two caution (n)
preparations for a trip to another paragraphs describing expand AWL
country preparations for a option AWL
■ Can compare Before and After future event permanent (adj)
pictures of a person and discuss risk (n)
changes in appearance temporary (adj) AWL
■ Can discuss steps people from
different cultures take to improve
their appearance
■ Can discuss and complete an ■ Can write a short consumer AWL
online order form article describing things dispute (v)
■ Can discuss shopping in to do and see in one’s policy AWL
different places city or town precaution
secure (adj) AWL
■ Can compare the advantages
site (n) AWL
and disadvantages of shopping in
stores and shopping online
■ Can discuss common ■ Can write a short anticipate AWL
problems and possible solutions speech about what one attitude AWL
■ Can discuss superstitions, will do if elected class confident
giving opinions and making or school president insight AWL
cross-cultural comparisons percent AWL
widespread AWL
■ Can discuss common ■ Can write a detailed consent (v) AWL
problems and give advice paragraph describing embarrassed (adj)
■ Can discuss hypothetical a wish one has for enchanted (adj)
questions and wishes oneself or society, and furious
what might happen if it grant (v) AWL
came true regular (adj)
■ Can speculate about past ■ Can write one or two alternate (adj) AWL
events or hypothetical situations paragraphs speculating dominate AWL
■ Can analyze past situations about what would occur AWL
and evaluate the decisions made have happened if an outcome AWL
important event hadn’t parallel (adj) AWL
■ Can talk about a past decision
taken place version AWL
one regrets and about what one
wishes had happened and why
AWL = Academic Word List item
Scope and Sequence xxiii
 UNIT GRAMMAR READING

PART 9
Indirect
24
Direct and Indirect
Speech
■ Can report what others said using
direct and indirect speech
■ Can use a range of common
reporting verbs in both direct and
Social Science Article:
The Truth About Lying
■ Can identify specific
information in a linguistically
Speech and Page 376 indirect speech complex article
THEME Truth and Lies
Embedded ■ Can correctly punctuate statements
in direct speech
Questions
■ Can make tense and pronoun
changes in indirect speech

25 ■ Can report other people’s statements

using indirect speech, making tense
Scientific Article:
Force of Nature
Tense Changes in and time-word changes ■ Can attribute quoted
Indirect Speech ■ Can use modals in indirect speech speech to appropriate
Page 392 ■ Can recognize verbs that do not speakers based on the
THEME Extreme Weather change in indirect speech information in an article
■ Can use appropriate time words in
indirect speech

26 ■ Can report other people’s

instructions, commands, advice,
Radio Interview Transcript:
Here’s to Your Health
Indirect Instructions, requests, and invitations, using indirect ■ Can identify specific
Commands, Advice, speech with infinitives information in a linguistically
Requests, Invitations complex text
Page 408
THEME Health Issues

27 ■ Can report other people’s questions,

using indirect speech
Business Article:
The Stress Interview
Indirect Questions ■ Can use if, whether, or a wh- word to ■ Can identify specific
Page 420 begin indirect questions information in a linguistically
THEME Job Interviews ■ Can use proper verb tense and word complex article
order in indirect questions

28 ■ Can use sentences with embedded

questions to ask for information or
Interview Transcript:
The Tip: Who? When? and
Embedded Questions express something one doesn’t know How much?
Page 437 ■ Can use if, whether, or a wh- word to ■ Can extract specific
THEME Tipping Around begin embedded questions information from a
the World ■ Can use statement word order in linguistically complex text
embedded questions

xxiv Scope and Sequence

LISTENING SPEAKING WRITING VOCABULARY

Conversations between ■ Can have a discussion ■ Can write one or aware AWL
friends and coworkers about lying two paragraphs about justify AWL
■ Can follow animated ■ Can give an opinion and a past conversation, majority AWL
conversations well enough examples in response to a reporting what was nevertheless AWL
to identify key details literary quote or international said using direct and reveal (v) AWL
proverb indirect speech survey (n) AWL
■ Can complete a questionnaire
and compare answers with
classmates

A conversation about a ■ Can conduct a simple ■ Can write two devastation

recent weather report interview and report the other paragraphs about an exceed AWL
■ Can identify key details person’s answers extreme weather event, extreme
in a discussion about a ■ Can do an online search about reporting another inevitable AWL
weather report an extreme weather event and person’s experience shelter (n)
report findings whereas AWL

A conversation about a ■ Can discuss health problems ■ Can write one or two astonishing
visit to a headache clinic and possible home remedies paragraphs describing a fatigue (n)
■ Can identify key details ■ Can report on how someone health problem one had interfere
in a conversation about followed instructions and reporting the advice monitor (v) AWL

medical advice one received persist AWL

remedy (n)

A conversation about a ■ Can role-play a job interview ■ Can write a report on appropriate (adj) AWL
job interview and discuss with classmates a job interview candidate
■ Can identify key details ■ Can talk about a personal evaluation AWL
in a conversation about a experience with a job interview handle (v)
job interview potential (adj) AWL
■ Can complete a questionnaire
pressure (n)
about work values, discuss
answers, and report
conversations
A call-in radio show ■ Can discuss tipping around the ■ Can write a detailed clarify AWL
about tipping world, giving opinions paragraph about a custom
■ Can understand a call-in ■ Can talk about problems confusing or surprising depend on
radio program well enough encountered during first-time situation logical AWL
to identify information experiences ordinary
ultimate AWL
■ Can role-play a conversation
between a hotel clerk and a guest
asking for information
AWL = Academic Word List item

Scope and Sequence xxv

 About the Authors
Marjorie Fuchs has taught ESL at New York City Technical College and LaGuardia
Community College of the City University of New York and EFL at Sprachstudio Lingua Nova
in Munich, Germany. She has a master’s degree in Applied English Linguistics and a certificate
in TESOL from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has authored and co-authored
many widely used books and multimedia materials, notably Crossroads 4; Top Twenty ESL Word
Games: Beginning Vocabulary Development; Families: Ten Card Games for Language Learners; Focus on
Grammar 3 and 4 (editions 1–5); Focus on Grammar 3 and 4, CD-ROM; Longman English Interactive 3
and 4; Grammar Express Basic; Grammar Express Basic CD-ROM; Grammar Express Intermediate;
Future 1: English for Results; OPD Workplace Skills Builder; workbooks for Crossroads 1–4; The Oxford
Picture Dictionary High Beginning and Low Intermediate, (editions 1–3); Focus on Grammar 3 and 4
(editions 1–5); and Grammar Express Basic.

Margaret Bonner has taught ESL at Hunter College and the Borough of Manhattan
Community College of the City University of New York, at Taiwan National University in
Taipei, and at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She holds a master’s degree
in library science from Columbia University, and she has done work toward a PhD in English
literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has authored and
co-authored numerous ESL and EFL print and multimedia materials, including textbooks for the
national school system of Oman; Step into Writing: A Basic Writing Text; Focus on Grammar 3 and 4
(editions 1–5); Focus on Grammar 4 Workbook (editions 1–5); Grammar Express Basic; Grammar
Express Basic CD-ROM; Grammar Express Basic Workbook; Grammar Express Intermediate; Focus on
Grammar 3 and 4, CD-ROM; Longman English Interactive 4; and The Oxford Picture Dictionary Low
Intermediate Workbook (editions 1–3).

Jane Curtis teaches in the English Language Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She
has also taught at the Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain, and at Wuhan University in
Wuhan, China. She holds a master’s degree in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign and a master’s degree in Applied Linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University.
She has authored materials for Longman Academic Writing Series 3: Paragraphs to Essays, Fourth
Edition; Future 4: English for Results; and the workbook for Focus on Grammar 4 (editions 3 and 4).

xxvi About the Authors

Acknowledgments
Before acknowledging the many people who have contributed to the fifth edition of Focus on
Grammar, we wish to express our gratitude to the following people who worked on the previous
editions and whose influence is still present in the new work: Joanne Dresner, who initiated
the project and helped conceptualize the general approach of Focus on Grammar; our editors
for the first four editions: Nancy Perry, Penny Laporte, Louisa Hellegers, Joan Saslow, Laura
LeDrean, Debbie Sistino, and Françoise Leffler; and Sharon Hilles, our grammar consultant for
the first edition.

In the fifth edition, Focus on Grammar has continued to evolve as we update materials and
respond to valuable feedback from teachers and students who use the series. We are grateful to
the following editors and colleagues:
• Gosia Jaros-White for overseeing with skill and sensitivity a complex series while never losing
sight of the individual components or people involved in the project. She offered concrete and
practical advice and was always mindful of learners’ needs.
• Bernard Seal, of Page Designs International, who joined the Focus on Grammar team with a
great deal of experience, expertise, energy, and enthusiasm. With his hands-on approach, he
was involved in every aspect of the project. He read all manuscript, raising pertinent questions
and offering sage advice.
• Don Williams, also of Page Designs International, for creating a fresh, new look, which is as
user-friendly as it is attractive.
• Françoise Leffler, our editor extraordinaire, with whom we had the great fortune and pleasure
of being able to continue our long collaboration. She provided both continuity and a fresh
eye as she delved into another edition of the series, advising us on all things—from the small
details to the big picture.
• Jane Curtis for her excellent contributions to the first half
of this book. Her involvement
went beyond her fine writing and choice of engaging topics. She also brought enthusiasm,
dedication, and many years of invaluable classroom experience using the series.
• Series co-authors Irene Schoenberg and Jay Maurer for their suggestions and support, and
Irene for sharing her experience in teaching with earlier editions of this book.
• Julie Schmidt for her helpful presentation of information and for her input in Part 9.
• Sharon Goldstein for her insightful and practical suggestions, delivered with wisdom and wit.

• Cindy Davis for her classroom-based recommendations at the very beginning of this edition.

Finally, as always, Marjorie thanks Rick Smith for his unswerving support and excellent
suggestions. He was a steadfast beacon of light as we navigated our way through our fifth FOG.

MF and MB

To the memory of my parents, Edith and Joseph Fuchs—MF

To my parents, Marie and Joseph Maus, and to my son, Luke Frances—MB

Acknowledgments xxvii
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