Light And Lively: Short Stories 2nd Ed. Student's Book

Description: High-Intermediate Level. Light and Lively and Laugh and Learn are collections of unabridged and unadapted humorous American short stories which will motivate and encourage students to read, while exposing them to American literature, life, and culture. Pre- and post-reading discussion and writing activities, and generous glossing, make these stories accessible to students, Follow-up activities provide extensive practice and vocabulary, idioms, and grammar.

Features
Humorous stories by well-known writer including Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, Bill Cosby, Katherine Best, and Steve Allen.
Scanning and pre-reading questions as well as role-playing and writing activities that require students to use varied grammatical constructs.
Exercises that are directly related to the reading selections stress the most common communication and grammatical problems.
Can be used both as a literary anthology and as a grammatical text.

Table of Contents


Unit 1 Complaint Department –Katherine Best

Verb Tenses; Say and Tell; Direct and Indirect Speech; Sentence Builder (Various Idioms); Adverbs With Say and Tell; Other Speech Verbs



Unit 2 Are You Majoring In Detention? –Bill Cosby

Articles; Imperatives and Polite Requests; Verb Tenses



Unit 3 The Late Mr. Adams –Steve Allen

Pronouns, Active and Passive Voice, Articles, Prepositions, Past Perfect



Unit 4 My Financial Career –Stephen Leacock

Spelling; Sentence Combining with And; Subject-Verb Agreement; Irregular Past Tense Verbs; Adjectives



Unit 5 Old Country Advice to the American Traveler

–William Saroyan

Adjectives vs. Adverbs; Imperatives and Let’s; Combining Sentences by Using Relative Pronouns; Quotation Marks; Prepositions of Time and Place



Unit 6 This Year It’s Going to Be Different –Will Stanton

Present Perfect and Past Perfect; It’s vs. Its; Appositives; Sentence Combining



Unit 7 A Bird in Hand–What’s It Worth? –Elaine Hart Messmer

Who vs. Whom; Proverbs and Simple Present in Factual Statements; Comparatives



Unit 8 You Were Perfectly Fine –Dorothy Parker

Interjections; Adverbs Modifying Adjectives; Short Answers and Other Short Forms in Spoken English; Punctuation



Unit 9 Harpist on Horseback –Hilda Cole Espy

Will / Would–Future in the Past vs. Future in the Present; Future Perfect and Past Perfect; Conditionals–Real and Unreal; Infinitives and Gerunds



Unit 10 The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones –Stephen Leacock

Possessive Nouns; Modals; Past Continuous (vs. Simple Past)



Unit 11 The Soft Sell –Art Buchwald

Infinitives and Gerunds; Relative Clauses; Constructions with It; What Clauses for Emphasis



Unit 12 Glove Purchase in Gibraltar –Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Conjunctions–And vs. But; Literary Language: Similes, Metaphors, Double Meanings; Complex Sentences; Conditional–Real



Unit 13 What Do You Do with Your Old Coffee Grounds?

–Howard Lindsay

Review–Irregular Verbs; Parallelism



Unit 14 The Romance of a Busy Broker –O. Henry

Modifier Patterns; Transitional Devices; Conditional–Unreal



Unit 15 University Days –James Thurber

Part 1

Part 2

Transition Words (Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions, Conjunctive Adverbs); Punctuation (Commas, Semicolons); Conditional–Past Unreal



Answer Key