that promote more accurate and fluent vocabulary usage, writing, speaking, and reading. Important features of all four new editions of Clear Grammar include:More user-friendly charts to accompany grammar explanationsHigh-frequency, corpus-based vocabulary related to each grammar pointGrammar discovery tasks using students’ inductive learning skillsA greater variety and  increased number of activities, including more practice onlineMany more activities at the longer discourse levelThe addition of reading practice at the end of the unit, as well a critical-reading task More writing practice, including one on editing student writing and another for original student writingTwo vocabulary practice activities, including a focus on collocations, in each unit, as well as many one-minute mini lessons showing the connection between grammar and vocabularyMore speaking practice, with activities  that require students to speak and listen to each other while using the target grammar Support for teachers in the form of indicators that reference how to teach the grammar points in the Clear Grammar series from Keys to Teaching Grammar for English Language Learners by Keith S. Folse (978-0-472-03220-4).Clear Grammar 1 offers students and teachers a solid introduction to beginning-level grammar. It also includes an introduction to the present perfect. Clear Grammar 1, 2nd Ed., includesPresent tense of be and regular verbsPossessive adjectives and demonstrative wordsDescriptive adjectivesPast tense of be, regular, and irregular verbsWh- questionsPresent progressive Count vs. non-count nounsPrepositionsBe going to + VerbReview of verb tensesThe book's companion website includes the additional grammar/vocabulary activities indicated in the textbook.

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