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Grammar and Beyond
Second Edition
Connecting grammar and writing for academic success and beyond.
A four-level course to help students learn the most useful grammar and academic writing, perfect for grammar classes with a strong focus on developing academic writing skills or to be used in academic writing courses. Students learn grammar in real-world contexts that apply outside the classroom and become a foundation to acquiring key academic writing skills.
Each Student's Book includes an activation code for Online Practice (Digital Workbook and Writing Skills Interactive) for more activities and an eBook with audio to use on mobile devices.
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Authors: Randi Reppen, Laurie Blass, Susan Iannuzzi, John D. Bunting, Luciana Diniz
CEFR Levels: A1 - C1Key Features
Equips students with the skills and strategies they need to be successful academic writers through explicit writing lessons.Prepares students for academic work by exposing them to the writing and speaking tasks they’ll encounter in their academic classes.Addresses a range of learner outcomes with clear presentation and practice with a wide variety of activity types, making the course easy to teach.Grammar and Beyond is part of a learning experience that could only come from Cambridge
It's shaped by unique insights from our extensive research and expertise, all to enable teachers to do what they do best - teach - and learners to reach their full potential.
Insights
Informed by years of researchThe grammar presented is based on the grammar of written and spoken English as it is used in college lectures, textbooks, academic essays, high school classrooms, and coversations between instructors and students.
Research-based
Authors wrote the course based on research and analysis of over one billion words of authentic written and spoken language.
- Present grammar rules that accurately represent how English is actually spoken and written
- Identify and teach differences between the grammar of written and spoken English
- Focus more attention on the structures that are commonly used, and less on those that are rarely used, in writing and speaking
- Help students avoid the most common mistakes that English language learners make
- Choose reading topics that will naturally elicit examples of the target grammar structure
- Introduce important vocabulary from the Academic Word List
Self-editing to accelerate learning
Avoid Common Mistake activities are drawn from an authentic database of over 35 million words from student essays written by non-native speakers of English and information from experienced classroom teachers. Students will develop self-editing skills, crucial to improve their writing. Their speaking skills will also improve as they learn to identify and correct the most common errors made by English language learners.
Data from the Real World
Concrete and useful points discovered through analysis of corpus data takes students beyond traditional information and teaches them how grammar is used in authentic situations.
Content
Real-world Contexts Students engage with contexts they experience in the real-world such as culture, technology, and lifestyles while learning key grammar points to make them more fluent speakers and writers.
Academic Writing
Every unit ends with an Academic Writing section. In Levels 1 through 3, this edition of Grammar and Beyond teaches students to write academically using writing cycles that span several units. In Level 4, the entire scope and sequence is organized around the types of essays students write in college, and focuses on the grammar rules, conventions, and structures needed to master them.
Grammar in the Real World
Each unit presents the grammar in a realistic context using contemporary text.
Realistic Grammar Presentation
Grammar is presented in clear and simple charts. The grammar points presented in these charts have been tested against real-world data to ensure that they are authentic representations of actual use of English.
Results
Achieving grammar learning outcomesCheck student progress throughout to make sure they are track to achieving learning outcomes.
Online Practice
Students can access an eBook with audio, a Digital Workbook for additional practice, and an online writing course with Writing Skills Interactive using their smartphones, tablets, or computers with single log-in.
Tracking student progress
Unit, Midterm, and Final Tests help you assess how the students are doing. You can also keep track and check each student's activities and time on task in the Cambridge One Gradebook.
Kahoot! quizzes
Ready-made Kahoot quizzes allow students to practice grammar and recognize common mistakes, and can be used for diagnostic assessment, practice, formative assessment and review. Host a live game by sharing your screen or create a challenge for your students to play on their own.
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