2.  Hearing grammar

• How's Jack?
• Plasmic
  
• English trees
• Grammar Detective 2
  
• Chapter 2

3.  Developing vocabulary

• Downsize
• Grass
  
• Ten words that don't exist but should
• Dictionary sample
• Find the English morphemes
• Morphemes and lexical categories
• Looking for morphemes in a text
• Creating words for English
• Phrasal verbs
• Grammar Detective 3--Phrasal verbs
• Chapter 3
  

4.  Setting standards

• Grammar strategy training--Clockwork Orange
  
• Grammar strategy training--Urban Wilderness
• Grammar strategy training--Harry Potter
  
• Rules of thumb
  
• Standard English Verb Quiz
• Ongoing changes in English grammar
  
• How's Jack?
• Testing out verb agreement
• Grammar Detective 4--Verb agreement
  
• Chapter 4

5.  Indicating when it happened

• Name the tenses
• Tenses in the Alligator
  
• Tenses in Harry Potter
• Tenses in academics
  
• Grammar Detective 5 -- Tenses in discourse
• Chapter 5

6.  Getting information

• Gone fishing
• Types of questions
• Intonation on questions--contrasting English and  Spanish
  
• Grammar Detective 6--Pragmatics of  yes/no questions
• Chapter 6

7. Politely getting things done

• Softening your tone with modals
  
• How polite are you?
• Setting up a politeness scale
• Grammar Detective 7--Quantifying politeness
• Politeness across cultures--Indian English
  
• Chapter 7

8. Saying no without offending

• Diving deep into negatives
• Samples of negatives in other languages
  
• Grammar Detective 8--Negatives in cartoons
• Chapter 8

9.  Talking about things

• Determiners
• Chain of reference--Harry Potter A, B
• Reading for grammar
• Academic paragraph
• Grammar Detective 9--Reinforcing determiners through reading
• Chapter 9

10. Creating images in the mind

• adjectives
  
• Pictures in the mind
• Fiction:: Harry Potter
• Life Styles Journalism: Urban Wilderness
  
• Grammar Detective 10--Checking on Description
  
• Chapter 10

11.  Sounding educated

• Grandma
• t-units
• Flowers for Algernon
  
• Hungry?
• Harry Potter
  
• Grammar Detective 11-- Learning grammar though reading
  
• Chapter 11

12. Improving your style

• Science--Beetles
• Plasmic
  
• Do it yourself:--Clutch
• Hemingway: A farewell to arms | For whom the bells tolls
• Salinger: The catcher in the rye
• Catch her in the oatmeal
• Some ads
• Toyota
• Colgate
• Chrysler
• USNews
• Impotence
  
• Grammar Detective 12--Focus in ads
  
• Chapter 12