Celta Pre Interview Task
1. Check in a grammar reference book and give examples of the following tenses. Give REALISTIC NATURAL examples that might commonly be spoken or written by a native speaker.
a. Present Simple I live in London b. Present Continuous I am at home c. Past Simple I studied at Oxford d. Past Continuous The cat was sleeping on the sofa e. Present Perfect Simple I have been to Canada f. Present Perfect Continuous I have been living in London for 15 years g. Past Perfect I lived in Oxford before moving to York h. Past Perfect Continuous I lived in York for 3 years before moving 2. Many foreign learners have learnt that Will and Shall are used to refer to the future in English e.g. Jane'll be home soon. However, in natural colloquial English other forms are frequently used. Look up and find 3 more ways of talking about the future without using will or shall. Give example sentences. a. Im going to teach English b. Im gonna teach english c. Language - varieties 3. Look at the following sentences. Would you say them? Who might?
• So she's like “No”, and I'm like “Why not?”- Young American coloquial speaker • I am seeing what you mean - Non-native english speaker. • We've already gotten to know each other pretty well. American English speech
Language - accuracy 4. Look at these examples of a learner's spoken English. Underline the error and say what you think is wrong and why. (i) Pedro has arrived last Saturday. The sentence is past simple so does not require the use of has. (ii) She is living here since ten years. The tense is present perfect continous and shoud be phrased as ‘has been’
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a. Present Simple I live in London b. Present Continuous I am at home c. Past Simple I studied at Oxford d. Past Continuous The cat was sleeping on the sofa e. Present Perfect Simple I have been to Canada f. Present Perfect Continuous I have been living in London for 15 years g. Past Perfect I lived in Oxford before moving to York h. Past Perfect Continuous I lived in York for 3 years before moving 2. Many foreign learners have learnt that Will and Shall are used to refer to the future in English e.g. Jane'll be home soon. However, in natural colloquial English other forms are frequently used. Look up and find 3 more ways of talking about the future without using will or shall. Give example sentences. a. Im going to teach English b. Im gonna teach english c. Language - varieties 3. Look at the following sentences. Would you say them? Who might?
• So she's like “No”, and I'm like “Why not?”- Young American coloquial speaker • I am seeing what you mean - Non-native english speaker. • We've already gotten to know each other pretty well. American English speech
Language - accuracy 4. Look at these examples of a learner's spoken English. Underline the error and say what you think is wrong and why. (i) Pedro has arrived last Saturday. The sentence is past simple so does not require the use of has. (ii) She is living here since ten years. The tense is present perfect continous and shoud be phrased as ‘has been’
(iii) Last