Celta Language Related Task
Language Related Tasks
Part A
1. A) She’s meeting Jack at 3 o’clock. Present continuous.
B) Subject + to be + verb + ing +.
C) Meaning: It is referring to an action that will take place at a pre-arranged time in the future.
Use: It is used to talk about an arranged action that will happen in the future, and the time is specified.
D) ‘She’s meeting...’ is the contracted form of ‘She is meeting..’ it is pronounced as ‘Shiz’ /∫Iz/.
E) Students may be confused by the use of the ‘ing’ with some verbs like: (love, like, want, realise, recognise, belong, suppose, or remember).
The use of the verb to have in the sense of possession can only refer to future meaning and does not require specified time. (I am having a black shoe.)
They may use the future form “will” with the verb+ing; (She will meeting...).
F) Ask the students about their plans for the weekend, and ask groups with different diary entries to agree on a party.
G) Concept questions:
1. Are we talking about the present or the future? (Future)
2. Did they plan to meet in advance? (Yes)
3. Is it in her diary? (Yes)
2. A) It’s going to rain. Future with going to.
B) Subject + to be + going to.
C) Meaning and use: predicting the future on the basis of present evidence even if only in our minds. (I see dark clouds.) “It’s going to rain.”
D) “ It’s” is the contracted form of “ It is”, and is pronounced as /Is/, and most of the people pronounce “going to” as gonna /gənə/, so together it sounds like / Isgənə/.
E) Students don’t like using “going to” because it confuses them. They prefer using “will” to refer to the future.
Students that don’t have the verb “to be” in their first language make mistakes like saying “I going to buy...”. Others don’t understand the use of the verb “to go” after the “going to”
Part A
1. A) She’s meeting Jack at 3 o’clock. Present continuous.
B) Subject + to be + verb + ing +.
C) Meaning: It is referring to an action that will take place at a pre-arranged time in the future.
Use: It is used to talk about an arranged action that will happen in the future, and the time is specified.
D) ‘She’s meeting...’ is the contracted form of ‘She is meeting..’ it is pronounced as ‘Shiz’ /∫Iz/.
E) Students may be confused by the use of the ‘ing’ with some verbs like: (love, like, want, realise, recognise, belong, suppose, or remember).
The use of the verb to have in the sense of possession can only refer to future meaning and does not require specified time. (I am having a black shoe.)
They may use the future form “will” with the verb+ing; (She will meeting...).
F) Ask the students about their plans for the weekend, and ask groups with different diary entries to agree on a party.
G) Concept questions:
1. Are we talking about the present or the future? (Future)
2. Did they plan to meet in advance? (Yes)
3. Is it in her diary? (Yes)
2. A) It’s going to rain. Future with going to.
B) Subject + to be + going to.
C) Meaning and use: predicting the future on the basis of present evidence even if only in our minds. (I see dark clouds.) “It’s going to rain.”
D) “ It’s” is the contracted form of “ It is”, and is pronounced as /Is/, and most of the people pronounce “going to” as gonna /gənə/, so together it sounds like / Isgənə/.
E) Students don’t like using “going to” because it confuses them. They prefer using “will” to refer to the future.
Students that don’t have the verb “to be” in their first language make mistakes like saying “I going to buy...”. Others don’t understand the use of the verb “to go” after the “going to”
References: Aitken, Rosemary (2002) Teaching Tenses. Brighton: ELB Publishing. Cowan, Ron (2008) The Teacher’s Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Scrivener, Jim () Learning Teaching: The Essential Guide to English Language Teaching. 3rd edition. MacMillan Press. Scrivener, Jim () Teaching English Grammar: What to Teach and How to Teach it. MacMillan Press. Thornbury, Scott (1999) How to Teach Grammar. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. Workman, Graham (2008) Concept Questions and Timelines. Gem Publishing.