Describe how you would drill the past tense or another grammar point with a repetition drill. A repetition drill The teacher get the students to repeat the form in response to a given stimulus‚ quite often a gesture or facial expression. Start the exercise and introduce the form using the ‘back – chaining method’. The phrase is modeled‚ starting at the end and working your way forward e.g. ‘yesterday’ / ‘to town yesterday’ / ‘I went to town yesterday’. Students repeat each respective ‘chunk’
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Could: Could is used 1) to express abilities in the past: Jason could do 50 push-ups in five minutes when he was young. Jason could talk when he was four. 2) to express permission: Could you lend me two grants? Modal Auxiliary Verbs 3) 4) to express future possibility: it expresses more uncertainty than may I could get an A or B in grammar. It depends on the final exam. could with present perfect tense is used to express something in the past may be real. You could have been killed in that accident
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by the speaker is that the land is written about in the past and the girl is in the future. The accounts of the city capture what it used to be like when it was still great and standing. Browning says‚ “Was the site once of a city great and gay‚ (So they say) Of our country’s very capital‚ its prince Ages since… Now‚ ---the country does not even boast a tree‚ As you see” (7-10‚ 13-14). This statement is clearly in the past tense as the speaker is explaining the magnitude of the once
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give examples of the following tenses. Give REALISTIC NATURAL examples that might commonly be spoken or written by a native speaker. Present Simple We use this tense to describe something that happens in repeatedly or that is true in general. I normally wake up at 7am . Present Continuous This is used when things are happening at or around us at the time of speaking but have not finished. I want to live in Germany so i’m learning to speak German Past Simple The past simple will usually end in "ed"
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Descriptive Essay #1 Due: on Wed‚ Sept 3rd Length: 3 pages minimum. No more than 4. Purpose: You must write a first-person‚ past tense story of a memorable experience you had on a short trip or vacation. In fulfilling the ‘descriptive’ function of the essay‚ you must be specific and descriptive in your details of what you describe. This will include using dialogue from people in your story‚ describing locations and certain circumstances. I am aware that in three pages it is a difficult task to
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Reported Speech Table for change in tense of reported speech (Statements) The tense changes into the corresponding past. Direct Indirect/ Reported Simple Present tense Simple Past Tense Present Continuous tense Past Continuous tense Present Perfect tense Past Perfect tense Present Perfect Continuous tense Past Perfect Continuous tense Simple Past tense Past Perfect Past Continuous tense Past Perfect Continuous tense Past Perfect Past Perfect Simple Future (will) would Future continuous
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stuck in time‚ due to the date. Shows it must be about past tense or reminiscing. This maybe makes the poem more meaningful and personal. The poem is written in the first person as it is the "Captain that is speaking to someone. The 4 stanzas in the poem all of various lengths show the structure of the poem is disjointed suggesting that this is his trail of thought and his mind all over the place‚ maybe trying to understand and relive the past. This is done using pauses and short sentences‚ the short
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Present Perfect Continuous Timeline Teaching Present perfect continuous I usually draw a time line on the board about something I started doing in the past and on the other end I write now‚ then I present the sentence. for example: I started working here in 2004‚ I am working here now. I have been working here for 2 years. Then I have the students try to form sentences using the structure." Salvador Any effective exercise which emphasises the time elapsed between the action starting
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Holden himself is very closed off from everyone and it’s just a part of his personality from the very beginning. It isn’t till Holden had wrote the composition for Stradlater that we breakthrough this wall and distance that he’s created between not only all the other characters in the book itself but the reader as well. As Holden talks about his brother allie and baseball mitt it’s easy to imagine a young boy out in the field enjoying the poetry written on his mitt. “He had poems written all over
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THE LANGUAGE-BASED MODEL Literary Texts : The Jar of Tassai and The Big Day Grammar Lessons/Points : a. Prepositions/Prepositional Phrases b. Tenses of Verbs (Simple Past Tense) A. Prepositions/Prepositional Phrase * A preposition is a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun to some other word in a sentence. Rule : A preposition always introduces a phrase. The noun or pronoun that ends a prepositional phrase is the object of the preposition which introduces
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