<p style="margin: 0px;">A classic developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced students of English, <i>Understanding and Using English Grammar</i> is a comprehensive reference grammar as well as a stimulating and teachable classroom text. </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">  </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">While keeping the same basic approach and material as in earlier editions, the Fourth Edition more fully develops communicative and interactive language-learning activities. Some of the new features are: </p> <ul><li>Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught </li><li>Structure-based listening exercises ranging from casual speech to academic content </li><li>Academic readings that highlight the targeted grammar structures </li><li>Greatly expanded speaking practice with extensive pair, group and class work </li><li>Corpus-informed syllabus that reflects the discourse patterns of spoken and written English </li><li>Audio CDs and listening script in the back of the Student Book</li></ul> <p style="margin: 0px;">The program components include the Student Book (Full Edition and Volume A and Volume B), Workbook (Full Edition and Volume A and Volume B), Chartbook, Teacher's Guide, and Test Bank. Click on "Course-Specific Resources" on the left for more details.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0px;">For an online workbook, see <i>.</i> </p>