This series uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methodologies to promote the development of all language skills in a variety of ways. 

Starting from a foundation of understanding form and meaning, students engage in meaningful communication about real actions, real things, and their real lives in a classroom context. 

With clear, user-friendly charts and engaging, interactive practice, it’s easy to see why this classic series remains the gold standard in grammar instruction and learning. 

Student Book A  - Split Edition 

Each chapter of the course covers a general topic in grammar. The chapters are divided into charts. Each chart covers one or more grammar points and is followed by comprehensive grammar practice. 

• Warm-up exercises provide a smooth entry into a grammar topic 
• Exercises vary from very controlled to more open-ended types 
• Grammar practice is embedded into reading, writing, listening, and speaking tasks 
• Large variety of exercise enables students to practice the same grammatical concepts in different ways 

Betty Azar is the founding author of Azar methodology and is the co-author of the Azar-Hagen Grammar Series. In her early career as an English teacher she started developing her own materials and worksheets to help her students grasp English grammar. Later on, she established her own approach to grammar teaching - Grammar Based Teaching (GBT) which became a foundation of the Azar-Hagen Grammar Series.

Stacy Hagen is the co-author of the Azar-Hagen Grammar Series. She’s an experienced English Language teacher and administrator, as well as a published author of a number of ELT textbooks. She brings a wealth of rich new content, new exercise types, and a fresh, updated feel to the revisions.

Basic English Grammar, 4th edition - Extract