Basic English Grammar, Betty Azar

Clear, direct and comprehensive, the Azar-Hagen Grammar series uses a grammar-based teaching approach, blending grammar methodology with communicative methods. Grammar is used as the starting point for the development of all language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

• A pre-test at the start of each chapter allows learners to assess what they already know and orient themselves to the chapter material.
• Jump-start your English lessons, with functional topics and colloquial speech, give students more practical language from the start.
• Practice, spaced out over time, helps students learn better. Additional exercises have been created to provide more incremental practice.
• New and updated charts and exercises show patterns to help learners make sense of the information.
• Meaning-based practice is introduced at the sentence level. Students do not have to wait for longer passages to work with meaning.
• Additional oral exercises encourage students to speak more naturally and fluidly.
• Reading and writing tasks have been fine-tuned to reflect contemporary student needs.
• Exercises with life-skills vocabulary help better prepare students for everyday life.
• Updated grammar charts based on corpus research reflect current usage and highlight the differences between written and spoken English in formal and informal contexts.
• End-of-the-chapter Learning Checks help students assess their learning.
• A Pearson Practice English app with diagnostic, review, and end of the chapter learning checks; Student Book audio; and guided PowerPoint videos.