1.6 SPELLING OF–ING AND –ED FORMS
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CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW OF VERB TENSES
CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW OF VERB TENSES
Note: Chapter 1 presents an overview of English verb tenses, The tenses
will be studied in more detail in chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5
EXERCISE 1: Introductions and interviews
Directions: Do one or More Of the Following activities
Activity A: Interview
another student in your class. Take notes during the interview, and then
introduce this student to the rest of the class or to a small group of
classmates. Possible topics for the interview follow. What questions might you
ask to elicit this information?
1. Name
2. Spelling
of name
3. Country
of Origin
4. Present
residence
5. Length
of time in (this city or country), both past and future
6. Reason
for coming here
7. Field
of study or work
8. Activities
in free time
9. General
well-being and adjustment to living here
10. Comments
on living here
Activity B: Write a brief
autobiographical paragraph telling who you are, what you have done in the past
two years, and what your plans are for the next two years. Then Exchange your
paper with classmate. Ask each other questions to clarify your understanding
and elicit further information.
Next, join two other students to form a group of four. Tell the others
in the group about the classmate whose paragraph you read.
Activity C: Interview a
classmate outside of class and write a biography of his/ her life
Activity D: Interview a
native speaker of English and write a biography of his/ her life
Activity E: With a Clasmate,
take a trip to a particular place, such as a museum, a theater, or a
restaurant. Write a report of your excursion, or give an oral report to your
classnates.
EXERCISE 2: Overview of Verb tenses (Chapters 1-5)
Directions: Pair up with a classmate
Speaker A: Your book is open. Ask a classmate a question using what + a
form of do (e.g., What are you doing? What did you do ? What have you done? ).
Use the given time expressions.
Speaker B: Your Book is closed. Answare Speaker A’s questions in
complete sentences.
Example: every Morning
Speaker A (Book Open): What do you do every Morning?
Speaker B (Book Closed) : I (go to classes/ eat breakfast/ etc.) every morning.
1.
Every day before you leave home
2. Last
nigh
3. At
(this exact time) yesterday
4. Right
now
5. Since
you got up this morning
6. For
the past five minutes
7. Tomorrow
8. At
(this exact time) tomorrow
9. By
the time you got here today
10. By
the time yo go to bed tonight
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