Cambridge Grammar for IELTS with Answers and 1 Audio CD

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Listening activities introduce the grammar points, so listening skills develop while you study. A wide range of tasks from the Academic and General Training Reading and Writing papers, plus the Listening paper, provide plenty of test practice. Work through the units or focus on areas that need more practice. The answer key includes tape scripts and model writing answers. The book comes with a CD containing all the listening material.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. vii)
• Entry test (p. ix)
• 1 Present tenses
• Present simple; present continuous; state verbs (p. 1)
• Test practice: Listening Section 1 (p. 6)
• 2 Past tenses 1
• Past simple; past continuous; used to; would (p. 8)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 14)
• 3 Present perfect
• Present perfect simple; present perfect continuous (p. 18)
• Test practice: General Training Writing Task 1 (p. 25)
• 4 Past tenses (p. 2)
• Past perfect simple; past perfect continuous (p. 27)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 34)
• 5 Future (p. 1)
• Plans, intentions and predictions: present continuous; going to; will (p. 38)
• Test practice: General Training Reading (p. 44)
• 6 Future (p. 2)
• Present simple; be about to; future continuous; future perfect (p. 48)
• Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2 (p. 54)
• 7 Countable and uncountable nouns
• Countable and uncountable nouns; quantity expressions (many, much, a lot of, some, any, a few, few, no) (p. 55)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 60)
• 8 Referring to nouns
• Articles; other determiners (demonstratives, possessives, inclusives: each, every, both, all etc.) (p. 64)
• Test practice: Listening Section 4 (p. 71)
• 9 Pronouns and referencing
• Personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns; avoiding repetition (p. 73)
• Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2 (p. 79)
• 10 Adjectives and adverbs
• Describing things; adding information about manner, place, time, frequency and intensity (p. 80)
• Test practice: General Training Reading (p. 87)
• 11 Comparing things:
• Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs; other ways of comparing (p. 90)
• Test practice: Academic Writing Task 1 (p. 97)
• 12 The noun phrase
• Noun + prepositional phrase; noun + participle clause; noun + to-infinitive clause (p. 98)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 103)
• 13 Modals 1
• Ability; possibility; alternatives to modals (p. 107)
• Test practice: Listening Section 4 (p. 113)
• 14 Modals (p. 2)
• Obligation and necessity; suggestions and advice; adverbs (p. 114)
• Test practice: General Training Reading (p. 120)
• 15 Reported speech
• Tense changes; time references; reporting questions; reporting verbs (p. 123)
• Test practice: Listening Section 3 (p. 131)
• 16 Verb + verb patterns
• Verb + to-infinitive; verb + -ing; verb + preposition + -ing; verb + infinitive without to (p. 133)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 140)
• 17 Likelihood based on conditions 1
• Zero, first and second conditionals; other ways to introduce a condition (p. 144)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 150)
• 18 Likelihood based on conditions 1
• Third conditional; mixed conditionals; wishes and regrets; should(n't) have (p. 154)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 160)
• 19 Prepositions
• Prepositions after verbs, adjectives and nouns; prepositional phrases (p. 164)
• Test practice: Listening Section 2 (p. 171)
• 20 Relative clauses
• Relative pronouns; defining and non-defining relative clauses; prepositions (p. 173)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 180)
• 21 Ways of organizing texts
• Subject choice; introductory it; ellipsis; organising information; it- and what-clauses (p. 184)
• Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2 (p. 190)
• 22 The passive
• The passive; reporting with passive verbs; have something done; need + -ing (p. 191)
• Test practice: Academic Writing Task 1 (p. 197)
• 23 Linking ideas
• Conjunctions, adverbials and prepositions; linking expressions (p. 198)
• Test practice: Academic Reading (p. 206)
• 24 Showing your position in a text
• Pronouns; adverbs; verbs; adjectives (p. 210)
• Test practice: Academic Writing Task 2 (p. 215)
• 25 Nominalisation in written English
• Forming nouns from other parts of speech (verbs, adjectives and linking words) (p. 216)
• Test practice: Academic Writing Task 1 (p. 222)
• Key (p. 223)
• Recording scripts (p. 240)
• Appendix 1 Irregular verbs (p. 256)
• Appendix 2 Phrasal verbs (p. 257)
• CD tracklist (p. 258)