Preface |
|
ix | |
|
|
1 | (48) |
|
The ESL Student and the Native Speaker |
|
|
1 | (18) |
|
Differences Between Native Speakers and ESL Students |
|
|
2 | (9) |
|
The Importance of Speaking and Writing Well |
|
|
11 | (8) |
|
|
12 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
13 | (3) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
16 | (1) |
|
|
17 | (1) |
|
|
18 | (1) |
|
|
19 | (14) |
|
|
19 | (6) |
|
|
25 | (8) |
|
|
28 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
29 | (1) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
30 | (1) |
|
|
31 | (1) |
|
|
32 | (1) |
|
|
33 | (16) |
|
|
35 | (1) |
|
|
35 | (3) |
|
|
38 | (1) |
|
|
39 | (1) |
|
|
40 | (9) |
|
|
44 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
45 | (1) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
46 | (1) |
|
|
47 | (1) |
|
|
48 | (1) |
|
|
49 | (244) |
|
|
49 | (23) |
|
|
49 | (1) |
|
|
50 | (2) |
|
Sentences Worded as Questions |
|
|
52 | (2) |
|
|
54 | (3) |
|
Action Verbs and Linking Verbs |
|
|
57 | (2) |
|
|
59 | (2) |
|
|
61 | (4) |
|
Compound Subjects and Verbs |
|
|
65 | (7) |
|
|
67 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
68 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
70 | (1) |
|
|
70 | (1) |
|
|
71 | (1) |
|
|
72 | (19) |
|
Dependent and Independent Clauses |
|
|
72 | (3) |
|
Three Basic Sentence Types |
|
|
75 | (9) |
|
|
84 | (7) |
|
|
85 | (2) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
87 | (1) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
88 | (1) |
|
|
88 | (2) |
|
|
90 | (1) |
|
|
91 | (30) |
|
|
91 | (2) |
|
Avoiding Sentence Fragments |
|
|
93 | (13) |
|
|
106 | (15) |
|
|
115 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
116 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
118 | (1) |
|
|
119 | (1) |
|
|
120 | (1) |
|
|
121 | (22) |
|
|
121 | (2) |
|
|
123 | (2) |
|
|
125 | (2) |
|
|
127 | (2) |
|
Difficult Verbs: Be, Have, Do |
|
|
129 | (6) |
|
|
135 | (8) |
|
|
137 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
138 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
140 | (1) |
|
|
141 | (1) |
|
|
142 | (1) |
|
Regular and Irregular Verbs |
|
|
143 | (23) |
|
|
143 | (7) |
|
|
150 | (8) |
|
Problem Verbs: Lie/Lay, Sit/ Set, Rise/Raise |
|
|
158 | (3) |
|
Lie/Lay, Sit/Set, Rise/Raise: Does It Really Matter? |
|
|
161 | (5) |
|
|
161 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
162 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
164 | (1) |
|
|
164 | (1) |
|
|
165 | (1) |
|
|
166 | (21) |
|
Do, Does, Doesn't, Don't, Was, Were, Wasn't, Weren't |
|
|
168 | (1) |
|
|
169 | (3) |
|
Phrases Between a Subject and Its Verb |
|
|
172 | (1) |
|
Sentences Beginning with There/Here |
|
|
173 | (2) |
|
|
175 | (2) |
|
Compound Subjects Joined by And, Or, Either/Or, or Neither/ Nor |
|
|
177 | (2) |
|
|
179 | (2) |
|
|
181 | (6) |
|
|
182 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
183 | (1) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
184 | (1) |
|
|
185 | (1) |
|
|
186 | (1) |
|
|
187 | (14) |
|
|
187 | (3) |
|
Would Have, Could Have, Should Have, and Must Have |
|
|
190 | (1) |
|
|
191 | (1) |
|
|
192 | (9) |
|
|
195 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
196 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
198 | (1) |
|
|
199 | (1) |
|
|
200 | (1) |
|
|
201 | (21) |
|
|
202 | (5) |
|
|
207 | (1) |
|
|
207 | (3) |
|
Pronouns as Direct and Indirect Objects |
|
|
210 | (2) |
|
|
212 | (2) |
|
|
214 | (8) |
|
|
216 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
217 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
219 | (1) |
|
|
220 | (1) |
|
|
221 | (1) |
|
|
222 | (21) |
|
|
223 | (10) |
|
|
233 | (10) |
|
|
237 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
238 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
240 | (1) |
|
|
241 | (1) |
|
|
242 | (1) |
|
Using Adjectives and Adverbs |
|
|
243 | (25) |
|
|
244 | (5) |
|
|
249 | (2) |
|
|
251 | (4) |
|
Using Good/Well and Bad/Badly |
|
|
255 | (2) |
|
This/That and These/Those |
|
|
257 | (2) |
|
|
259 | (9) |
|
|
260 | (2) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
262 | (3) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
265 | (1) |
|
|
265 | (2) |
|
|
267 | (1) |
|
Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers |
|
|
268 | (12) |
|
|
268 | (2) |
|
|
270 | (10) |
|
|
275 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
276 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
278 | (1) |
|
|
278 | (1) |
|
|
279 | (1) |
|
|
280 | (13) |
|
|
281 | (1) |
|
|
282 | (1) |
|
Prepositions in Commonly Used Expressions |
|
|
283 | (1) |
|
Frequently Misused Prepositions |
|
|
284 | (2) |
|
Frequently Misused Prepositional Expressions |
|
|
286 | (7) |
|
|
288 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
289 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
291 | (1) |
|
|
291 | (1) |
|
|
292 | (1) |
|
|
293 | (52) |
|
Moving from Sentences to Paragraphs |
|
|
293 | (20) |
|
|
294 | (19) |
|
|
306 | (2) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
308 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
310 | (1) |
|
|
310 | (2) |
|
|
312 | (1) |
|
Writing a Solid Paragraph |
|
|
313 | (20) |
|
Begin with a Discussible Point |
|
|
314 | (1) |
|
|
315 | (1) |
|
Prove the Point; Don't Merely Repeat It |
|
|
316 | (5) |
|
|
321 | (12) |
|
|
325 | (3) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
328 | (1) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
329 | (1) |
|
|
330 | (2) |
|
|
332 | (1) |
|
|
333 | (12) |
|
|
333 | (1) |
|
Using Talk Skills to Revise Your Work |
|
|
334 | (3) |
|
|
337 | (8) |
|
|
340 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
341 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
343 | (1) |
|
|
343 | (1) |
|
|
344 | (1) |
|
|
345 | (116) |
|
|
345 | (25) |
|
|
346 | (1) |
|
|
347 | (12) |
|
|
359 | (11) |
|
|
365 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
366 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
368 | (1) |
|
|
368 | (1) |
|
|
369 | (1) |
|
Punctuation You Can't Hear |
|
|
370 | (19) |
|
|
370 | (4) |
|
|
374 | (2) |
|
|
376 | (1) |
|
Quotation Marks ( `` `` ) |
|
|
377 | (6) |
|
|
383 | (6) |
|
|
384 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
384 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
386 | (1) |
|
|
387 | (1) |
|
|
388 | (1) |
|
|
389 | (17) |
|
|
390 | (16) |
|
|
401 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
402 | (1) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
403 | (1) |
|
|
404 | (1) |
|
|
405 | (1) |
|
How to Use the Dictionary |
|
|
406 | (16) |
|
|
407 | (1) |
|
|
408 | (1) |
|
|
409 | (1) |
|
|
409 | (1) |
|
|
410 | (2) |
|
|
412 | (2) |
|
|
414 | (1) |
|
|
415 | (7) |
|
|
416 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
417 | (3) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
420 | (1) |
|
|
420 | (1) |
|
|
421 | (1) |
|
|
422 | (21) |
|
Tips for Improving Your Spelling |
|
|
422 | (1) |
|
|
423 | (1) |
|
|
423 | (20) |
|
|
437 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
438 | (2) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
440 | (1) |
|
|
441 | (1) |
|
|
442 | (1) |
|
Commonly Misspelled Words |
|
|
443 | (18) |
|
Homophones and Frequently Confused Words |
|
|
444 | (6) |
|
Commonly Misspelled Words |
|
|
450 | (3) |
|
Words Spelled with One or Two Words |
|
|
453 | (8) |
|
|
455 | (1) |
|
Unit Talk-Write Assignment |
|
|
455 | (3) |
|
Unit Collaborative Assignment |
|
|
458 | (1) |
|
|
459 | (1) |
|
|
460 | (1) |
|
|
461 | (64) |
|
|
463 | (11) |
|
|
466 | (1) |
|
|
466 | (3) |
|
|
|
469 | (3) |
|
|
|
472 | (2) |
|
|
|
474 | (8) |
|
How the Lawyers Stole Winter |
|
|
474 | (4) |
|
|
|
478 | (4) |
|
|
|
482 | (9) |
|
|
482 | (3) |
|
|
The Revolt of the Elephants |
|
|
485 | (3) |
|
|
|
488 | (3) |
|
|
|
491 | (11) |
|
A Brotherly Bond That Beat the Odds |
|
|
491 | (5) |
|
|
Two Roads Converged in a Wood |
|
|
496 | (3) |
|
|
|
499 | (3) |
|
|
|
502 | (8) |
|
|
502 | (4) |
|
|
|
506 | (4) |
|
|
|
510 | (7) |
|
|
510 | (4) |
|
|
|
514 | (3) |
|
|
|
517 | (8) |
|
Welcome Our Planet, Ourselves |
|
|
517 | (5) |
|
|
|
522 | (3) |
|
Credits |
|
525 | (2) |
Index |
|
527 | |