Study It Grammar 5 eBook

By James Rice and Diana Rechichi-Gjorvska

Winer 2015 Digital Book Award - Academic Category
Awarded QED Certification for Quality, Excellence and Design

The Study It Grammar series is an easy-to-use integrated skills ESL textbook for ESL students, language teachers and English language programs in schools or language schools. It is an exciting new series for teachers interested in Mobile Learning, Project-Based Learning or Flipping the Classroom. The Study It English Grammar series consists of 8 different levels. Book 5 of 8 is for Intermediate English as a Second Language learners. 

The Study It Grammar Book 5 consists of the following:
- Video exercises
- 5 different themes including future tenses, the past perfect tense, time expressions, phrasal verbs, conjunctions and relative clauses..
- Each unit contains vocabulary, listening, speaking, writing and reading practice.

ESL Teachers can access our online community which offers teachers a chance to share ideas for improving the English class

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Study "It": English as a Second Language series is an engaging textbook for teaching non-native English speakers. It takes advantage of the format to include video and audio in a way that supports the lessons and never feels added on as an "enhancement." The textbook uses a number of different assessment formats to allow users to test themselves throughout the book and see their scores. The book even uses the Note function effectively for long-form answers. While the content of the book is challenging, it makes learning grammar easy and fun. - 2015 Digital Book Award Review 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Study It Books
• Release date: Mar 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781927748459

James Rice

James Rice (1843-1882) was an English novelist. Born in Northampton and educated at Cambridge University, he became a lawyer at Lincoln’s Inn in 1871. There, he befriended Walter Besant, with whom he would collaborate on over a dozen popular novels and short story collections, included The Golden Butterfly (1876). Their prolific working relationship ended in tragedy in 1882 with Rice’s untimely death I Redhill, Surrey.

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UNIT 1 Moving in

Moving In

Moving in with a friend or a partner can be an amazing experience! You can hang out together anytime! You don’t have to waste time traveling to see them! But, there are always problems.

1. What kind of roommate you would like to have?

2. Have you ever had a really bad problem with a roommate? What was it?

3. What can you do to prevent having problems with a roommate?

Watch the video here: http://www.studyitbooks.com/5_1_moving_in.html and answer the questions.

Video Questions

1. Kerry and Chris eat out all the time.

a) true

b) false

2. Kerry and Chris have been married for:

a) less than a year

b) 1 year

c) 2 years

d) 3+ years

3. Chris is good at making...

a) fish

b) pizza

c) croissants

d) B and C

4. Chris thinks that Kerry’s fish dishes are:

a) delicious

b) ok

c) really tasteless

d) just like his Mom’s cooking

5. Is Kerry good at cooking?

a) yes

b) no

1. How long have Kerry and Chris been married?

2. How many times per month do Kerry and Chris go to a restaurant?

3. Which dishes would Kerry prepare?

4. How can you host a good dinner party?

Living Together

The fact is, living with someone else can be very, very difficult. Most experts say that you should never share a house with a friend, because it will always end in a fight. It’s also a very good idea to hold regular meetings with your roommates to discuss your expectations and rules for the house.

What other ways can you prevent fights with your roommates?

Fill in the Blanks

Fill in the blanks using the following. You may have to change the verb!

newlyweds(x2) make smth from scratch(x2) good at host rot fresh produce rotten save up eat out(x2) budget waste get tired of

1. John is not very __________ cooking.

2. __________ are people who have been married for less than a year.

3. One way to keep track of how much money you spend is to create a __________.

4. This banana has turned brown. It’s __________.

5. Not using the food in your fridge and then throwing it out because it is no good anymore is such a __________ of money.

6. I am __________ of hamburgers. Let’s try something different for dinner.

7. There is nothing in your fridge! Don’t you buy __________?

8. The Rice’s are __________ their annual dinner party next week. Are we invited?

9. I didn’t buy this bread, I made it __________.

10. I really want a new computer but they are so expensive. I need to start __________.

11. Bob is very good natured. He never __________ John’s cheesy jokes.

12. John is kind of messy and disorganized. He’s also a really bad cook. I don’t think he’s __________ anything!

13. I really don’t want to cook tonight. Let’s __________ tonight.

14. We need to __________ our money so we can have fun on the weekends.

15. Hello, welcome to Spendiferous Restaurant. My name is Jacques and I’ll be your __________ for the evening.

16. Some restaurants __________ so much food because of bad planning.

17. One of the reasons obesity is on the rise is because people __________ far more now than in the past.

18. My mom’s friends think she is a great cook because she tells them she makes everything ________ but I know she buys everything from a gourmet food shop!

19. Too much candy will _______ your teeth.

20. It’s easy to be romantic when you are still ________.

Discussion Questions

1. What is your favourite kind of food when you eat out?

2. What is your specialty when you cook at home?

3. What are the most common problems you can have with a roommate?

4. How do you budget your money while you are living here in Canada?

5. If you could eat only one kind of fast food for a month, what would it be?

You need a roommate!

Write an online ad with your partner.

Then, present it to the class.

1. Introduce yourselves.

2. Write a brief description of your place.

3. Talk about your expectations and rules for your place.

Learn it! Future Tenses

Watch the Video explanation here: http://www.studyitbooks.com/5_1_keynote.html

There are many different ways to talk about the future tense in English. In this unit, you will practice every single different future tense! Answer the discussion questions below with your partners, then, look at the examples on the right. Can you use all of the future tenses?

1. What are your plans for tonight?

2. What are you going to do this weekend?

3. What are your plans for the next five years?

4. What do you want to accomplish by the time you are 60 years old?

Future Simple

Promise

• A decision I make right now and tell people about

I will make dinner tonight.

Affirmation

• A spontaneous (in the moment) offer to help

I’ll make dinner tonight.

The Future Simple is used in a number of situations. One of these is when the speaker plans on doing something voluntarily (we say, by their ‘will’).

If the contracted form is used (‘ll), it gives us a feeling of informality. We also use the contracted form to indicate that this sentence is actually a communication of a decision made just at the moment of speaking. This is what we refer to as a spontaneous decision.

Time Expressions

Use these Time Expressions with the Future Simple.

Tomorrow

I will clean up the house tomorrow, I swear.

Next

I’ll do it next week.

In _____

I’ll finish the project in two days.

Later

I’ll do it later.

I’ll do it later tonight.

Write a short dialogue with your partner.

Student A - You are a mother. You work all day and all night. You need your son to clean up the house.

Student B - You are the son. You want your mother to stop bothering you. Make promises and offers to get her to get out of your room!

*** As the auxiliary verb comes first in the question form, there is no way to use the contraction.

The first example shows us a person who very strongly says what he/she does NOT want to do. The second example shows us how to make a prediction about what another person will not do (in the speaker’s opinion).

Future Continuous

The Future Continuous is used to express actions that will be happening at a specific time in the future. The focus is on the action. Here are the uses:

1. To express an action that we know will be happening in the future, which will be interrupted.

I’ll be sleeping when you get in after work, so please try to be quiet.

2. To express two or more actions happening at the same time in the future.

Dinner tonight with friends? Well, I’ll be working and the kids are going to be studying for their test.

3. To express that an action began, is still happening and will continue after a specific time in the future.

I won’t be able to come to your wedding as I’ll be flying back from Europe that same day.

Calendar

Make a specific, interesting plan for each night between 5pm-midnight. Then, try to make plans to watch a movie with your classmate during the week. Find a time that works for both of you and schedule it in.

Candice: Are you free on Wednesday at 8pm?

Josiane: No, sorry. At 8pm I’ll be eating dinner with Bunmi.

Note that we can use either WILL or GOING TO with very little difference, if any, in the meaning. What’s important is that we have the verb BE together with another verb in the ING form.

Future Perfect I will have left by then

Use the Future Perfect Tense to

• talk about something that will be finished before a specific future time or event;

• make a prediction about smth that will not be finished at a specific time in the future.

You can change the order of your information without any real difference in meaning.

He will have finished his homework by the time you get home.