The new, 5th edition of Fundamentals of English Grammar 

The fifth edition has been extensively revised to keep pace with advances in theory and practice, particularly from cognitive science. Now more than ever, teachers will find an extensive range of presentations, activities, and tasks to meet the specific needs of their classes. 

• Pretests at the start of each chapter enable learners to check what they already know. 
• Updated grammar charts reflect current usage and highlight differences between written and spoken English. 
• A new chapter on article usage. 
• A variety of high-interest readings include reviews, articles on current topics, and blogs that focus on student success. 
• Additional incremental practice helps learners better grasp concepts, while thematic exercises and integrated tasks offer more contextualized language use. 
• Step-by-step writing activities are supported by writing tips and pre-writing and editing tasks. 

Student Book 

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 

The Student Book is available with the Pearson Practice English App and with MyEnglishLab. Split editions are also available. 

The Student Book is available with the Pearson Practice English App and with MyEnglishLab. Split editions are also available. 

The Pearson Practice English App allows students to access course resources such as additional practice, assessments, and course audio. 

• Access to Student Book audio 
• Animated grammar presentations 
• Learning checks 

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.

Fundamentals of English Grammar, 5th edition - Extract