Complete Course In English

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This book, the first in a series consisting of three readers for students, is designed to help them acquire a good command over written and spoken English. The focus is on the conversational and everyday vocabulary aspects of English, giving the student ample opportunity for oral practice while building up his vocabulary alongside. From the teachers viewpoint, the text is flexible and can be adapted to a variety of teaching techniques. Table Of Contents Reading:Two Thanksgiving Day Gentle-men Grammar: The Verb to be. Reading The Great Whitewashing Grammar: The Simple Present, Past, and Future Tenses Reading: The Lady or the Tiger? Grammar: The Simple Tenses Negatives and Questions. Reading A Love Story; Grammar Articles; The going to Future Reading: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Grammar: The Present, Past, and Future Continuous Tenses Reading: The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff Grammar: The Perfect Tenses. Reading The Prince and the Judge; Grammar The Perfect Continuous Tenses Reading: Mr. Travers's First Hunt Grammar: The Passive Voice. Reading: Trouble in Bohemia; Grammar: Should/ought to/have to; say/tell. Vocabulary and Grammar Review. Reading: Good-bye, Olivia; Grammar: Can/may/used to/supposed to Reading: The Gold Coin; Grammar: Pronouns. Reading: The Enchanted Islands; Grammar: Some/any; a few/less; much/many/a lot of. Reading: The Woman on the Bus; Grammar: The Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs. Reading: A Pair of Silk Stockings; Grammar: The Sequence of Tenses; The Position of Adverbs. Reading: David Swan; Grammar: Direct and Indirect Speech. Reading: Portrait of a Teacher Grammar: Short Answers; too/so/either/neither; Tag Endings. Reading: Fact or Fantasy? Grammar: Conditional Statements. Reading: Grammar: Now He Belongs to the Ages; Gerunds. Vocabulary and Grammar Review. Appendix. International Phonetic Alphabet.