English Alive: Grammar, Function, and Setting

2nd edition. — Heinle and Heinle Publishers, 1991. — 365 p. — ISBN
0838429106. OCRThe new revised edition of English Alive is designed to make this popular text more user-friendly for both the student and the instructor. It now has a clearer, easier-to-use format. Although the instructor is still encouraged to intersperse grammar lessons with lessons from the function and setting chapters, there are now three separate sections for grammar, function, and setting chapters. The new layout is more attractive, allowing the student's eye to travel more easily over the page. Outdated information has been replaced. In order to provide a better balance with controlled activities such as fill-ins or dialogs, more discussion questions and open-ended or interactive activities have been added. To make the text easier for the instructor to use, comprehension questions now follow every dialog; an audiotape of the dialogs is now available for purchase, allowing the instructor to use the dialogs for listening comprehension. Simple definitions for words in the vocabulary preparation lists preceding readings have been added. Two new integration chapters have been provided, allowing for better review of verb forms. To better meet the needs of a curriculum for low intermediate students, two new grammar chapters have been added: a chapter on the Present Unreal Conditional and one on the Passive Voice with the
Simple Past and Simple Present. The authors are confident that instructors who have enjoyed working with this unique text in the past will find that the revised edition is much improved. Instructors trying English Alive for the first time will be delighted to find how easy it is to plan the curriculum around the text.