Focus on Grammar: Intermediate Level

 

The Focus on Grammar software program provides extensive grammar practice through lively reading, listening, and writing activities.  It is available for student use in the Language Learning Resource Center at 301 Independence Hall.

Users work and move through the different sections at their own pace.  The program features contextualized exercises with full reading and listening passages, not just isolated sentences.  Learners also use the grammar to express their own ideas in original written passages.  Special TOEFL-type review tests ready students for the TOEFL test format.

Focus on Grammar provides interactive feedback to guide the learner, and includes pop-up grammar charts, notes, and appendices for easy reference.  It also contains record-keeping functions for tracking individual performance.

Table of contents
Part 1: Present and Past
- Unit 1A: Simple Present Tense and Present Progressive
- Unit 1B: Past Progressive and Simple Past Tense
- Unit 1C: Present Perfect and Simple Past Tense
- Unit 1D: Integration
- Unit 2: Past Perfect
- Unit 3: Past Perfect Progressive
- Review Test 1
Part 2: Future
- Unit 4: Future Progressive
- Unit 5: Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive
- Review Test 2
Part 3: Tag Questions, Additions and Responses
- Unit 6: Tag Questions
- Unit 7: Additions and Responses with So, Too, Neither, Not Either, and But
- Review Test 3
Part 4: Gerunds and Infinitives
- Unit 8: Gerunds and Infinitives: Review and Expansion

- Unit 9: Verbs Followed by Objects and the Base Form
- Review Test 4
Part 5: Passive
- Unit 10: The Passive: Overview
- Unit 11: The Passive with Modals
- Unit 12: Passive Causatives
- Review Test 5
Part 6: Modals
- Unit 13: Advisability and Obligation in the Past
- Unit 14: Speculation and Conclusions about the Past
- Review Test 6
Part 7: Conditionals
- Unit 15: Factual Conditionals: Present
- Unit 16: Factual Conditionals: Future
- Unit 17: Unreal Conditionals: Present
- Unit 18: Unreal Conditionals: Past
- Review Test 7
Part 8: Adjective Clauses
- Unit 19: Adjective Clauses with Subject Relative Pronouns
- Unit 20: Adjective Clauses with Object Relative Pronouns, When and Where
- Review Test 8
Part 9: Indirect Speech and Embedded Questions
- Unit 21: Direct and Indirect Speech
- Unit 22: Indirect Speech: Tense Changes
- Unit 23: Indirect Instructions, Commands, Requests, and Invitations
- Unit 24: Indirect Questions
- Unit 25: Embedded Questions
- Review Test 9
Part 10: Pronouns and Phrasal Verbs
- Unit 26: Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns
- Unit 27: Phrasal Verbs
- Review Test 10