Clear Grammar is a four-level grammar series that features a unique combination of useful grammar information written in clear language with activities that promote more
accurate and fluent vocabulary usage, writing, speaking, and reading.
Important features of all four new editions of Clear Grammar include:
- More user-friendly charts to accompany grammar explanations
- High-frequency, corpus-based vocabulary related to each grammar
point
- Grammar discovery tasks using students’ inductive learning skills
- A greater variety and increased number of activities,
including more practice online
- More activities at the sentence level and at the longer discourse
level
- The addition of reading practice, a short reading at the
beginning of the unit and
a longer one at the end, as well a critical reading task
- More writing practice, including one on editing student writing
and another for original student writing
- Two vocabulary practice activities, including a focus on
collocations, in each unit, as well as many one-minute mini lessons showing the connection between grammar and vocabulary
- More speaking practice, with activities that require
students to speak and listen to each other while using the target grammar
- Support for teachers in the form of indicators that reference how
to teach the grammar points in the Clear Grammar series from Keys to Teaching Grammar for English Language Learners by Keith S. Folse (978-0-472-03220-4).
Clear Grammar 1 offers students and teachers a solid introduction to beginning-level grammar.
Clear Grammar 1, 2nd Ed., includes
Present tense of be and regular verbsPossessive adjectives and demonstrative wordsDescriptive adjectivesPast tense of be, regular, and irregular
verbsWh- questionsPresent progressive tenseCount vs. non-count nounsPrepositionsBe going to + VerbReview of Verb Tenses