Practice Makes Perfect: Basic English, Premium Third Edition

Description:
Get the skills you need to read and speak English with confidence!
Learn how to read and speak English with this easy-to-use workbook. Dozens of manageable, bite-sized lessons take you through the basics of the English language. Three-page units cover each subject, which can be completed in just 20 minutes. Each lesson covers a single grammar concept and is supported by many clear examples. The book includes tons of exercises help you practice your new language skills. Plus, you’ll also have access to streaming audio recordings of the most difficult English sounds to pronounce.
Practice Makes Perfect: Basic English, Premium Third Editionfeatures:
-Lessons and exercises to expand your vocabulary -Review exercises to measure your progress -Fun word search puzzles and scramble sentence exercises -An answer key for all the exercises in the book-Streaming audio of numerous exercise answers, available online and via our exclusive McGraw-Hill Education Language Lab app -Additional audio recordings of the most difficult sounds to pronounce in English-All aspects of grammar and basic vocabulary that a first-year student needs to know

Contents
Introduction vii
1 To Be: Present Tense 1
2 To Be: Present Tense: Negative Form 5
3 To Be: Present Tense: Question Form 9
4 To Be: Past Tense 13
5 To Be: Past Tense: Negative Form 17
6 To Be: Past Tense: Question Form 21
7 Exceptional Uses with the Verb To Be 25
8 Adjectives 29
9 To Have: Present Tense 33
10 To Have: Present Tense: Negative Form 37
11 To Have: Present Tense: Question Form 41
12 The Simple Present Tense 45
13 The Simple Present Tense: Negative Form 49
14 The Simple Present Tense: Question Form 53
15 Possessive Adjectives 57

iv Contents
16 The Simple Past Tense 61
17 The Simple Past Tense with Irregular Verbs: 1 65
18 The Simple Past Tense with Irregular Verbs: 2 69
19 The Simple Past Tense with Irregular Verbs: 3 73
20 The Simple Past Tense: Negative Form 77
21 The Simple Past Tense: Question Form 81
22 Prepositions: In and On 85
23 There Is and There Are: Present Tense 89
24 There Is and There Are: Present Tense: Negative Form 93
25 There Is and There Are: Present Tense: Question Form 97
26 There Is and There Are: Past Tense 101
27 There Is and There Are: Past Tense: Negative Form 106
28 There Is and There Are: Past Tense: Question Form 110
29 Prepositions: To and At 114
30 The Present Progressive (Continuous) Tense 118
31 The Present Progressive (Continuous) Tense:
Negative Form 122
32 The Present Progressive (Continuous) Tense:
Question Form 126
33 The Past Progressive (Continuous) Tense 130
34 The Past Progressive (Continuous) Tense:
Negative Form 134
35 The Past Progressive (Continuous) Tense:
Question Form 138
36 Prepositions: From and Of 142

Contents v
37 Will: Future Tense 146
38 Will: Future Tense: Negative Form 150
39 Will: Future Tense: Question Form 154
40 Be Going To: Future Tense 158
41 Be Going To: Future Tense: Negative Form 162
42 Be Going To: Future Tense: Question Form 166
43 The Indefinite Articles: A and An 170
44 Irregular Verbs Table 174
45 The Present Perfect Tense 178
46 The Present Perfect Tense: Negative Form 182
47 The Present Perfect Tense: Question Form 186
48 The Past Perfect Tense 190
49 The Past Perfect Tense: Negative Form 194
50 The Past Perfect Tense: Question Form 198
51 The Future Perfect Tense 202
52 The Future Perfect Tense: Negative Form 206
53 The Future Perfect Tense: Question Form 210
REVIEW EXERCISES
54 Verb Tenses Review: 1 217
55 Verb Tenses Review: 2 221
56 Verb Tenses Review: 3 225
57 Verb Tenses Review: 4 229

58 Verb Tenses Practice: 1 233
59 Verb Tenses Practice: 2 238
60 Regular and Irregular Verbs Review 242
61 Grammar Review 245
62 Vocabulary Review 251
63 Word Search Puzzles 254
64 Scrambled Sentences 258
APPENDIX
Pronunciation Exercises 261