Azar's Basic English Grammar, 3nd Edition

Title: Basic English Grammar with Answer Key
Level: Beginner/High-Beginner
Author(s): Betty Schrampfer Azar and Stacy A. Hagen
Publisher: Longman
Date: 2006; 3nd Edition
Pages: 554
Size: 17 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: Very good
Language: English

Blending communicative and interactive approaches with tried-and-true grammar teaching, the Azar Grammar Series offers concise, accurate, level-appropriate grammar information with an abundance of exercises, contexts, and classroom activities. [+/-]


A broad grammar syllabus
• The verb tense system, modals, gerunds, and infinitives
• Nouns, articles, quantifiers, pronouns, and agreement
• Spoken forms and their pronunciation; written forms and their punctuation
• Sentence patterns, clauses, connectives, and more


A variety of exercises and classroom activities
• Interviews, polls, debates, pantomimes, and role-plays
• Student-centred pair and group work
• Creative completion of stories, dialogues, and sentences
• Error analysis, practice tests, structure-specific writing, and more


Interest-catching, relevant contexts
• Sharing lives and personal experiences
• Fun topics: vacations on the moon, fairy tales, a murder mystery
• Cross-cultural comparisons and the universality of human experience
• The natural world and our environment, and more

Components of this widely used, adaptable series include:
• Student Books, available in full edition with or without answer key, and split editions, offering clear, concise grammar charts and a wide variety of exercises (all levels).
• Workbooks contain exercises for independent study (Workbooks for Fundamentals of English Grammar and Understanding and Using English Grammar are available in full and split editions).
• Chartbooks are reference texts with grammar charts from the Student Books (for Fundamentals of English Grammar and Understanding and Using English Grammar).
• Teacher's Guides provide answers to all Student Book exercises as well as additional grammar resources and helpful teaching suggestions (all levels).
• All-new Interactive CD-ROM combines new grammar practice with audio and “record and compare” functions.
• Test Banks provide time-saving reproducible quizzes and chapter tests.

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